Study Guides: A Manual of Thesis-Writing: For Graduates and Undergraduates

Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren’t unique. Cole and Bigelow offer invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, they begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a pleasurable adventure. They encourage them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies they assist the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one’s self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Cole and Bigelow make writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.