Challenges in writing your dissertation : coping with the emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual struggles / Noelle Sterne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterne, Noelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissertations, Academic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation: Coping With the Emotional, Interpersonal, and Spiritual Struggles, Noelle Sterne, Ph.D., demystifies the dissertation-writing process. She offers practical strategies so this often overwhelming process becomes less intimidating to doctoral candidates. Sterne addresses common fears and hurdles students face when writing and defending their dissertations and provides inspiration and encouragement during this long stressful time. This important resource is a must-read for doctoral candidates.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why This Book; What's Here; My Methods and Techniques; Why Me?; I Never Left School; From Professor to Typist; To Coach and Editor; Disclosure: My Writing (Mostly Nonacademic); A Word About the Spiritual; "Academic Nag"; I: Sneaking Up on the Dissertation; Chapter One: The Decision; How Is the Degree Part of Your Life's Dream?; What Will the Degree Do for You?; Visualize Your Dream; Affirmations for Strengthening Your Life Dream; As They Say, Meditate, Don't Medicate; Chapter Two: Big Changes; It's Not Just College Anymore

How Ready Are You to Change Your Lifestyle?No Structure; No Leisure; It's Your Time; Declare and Feel Your Readiness; II: Really Doing It; Chapter Three: Priorities and Promises to Yourself; Your Inner Mentor: Listening for Answers; Rethink Your Priorities; Find the Holes in Your Schedule; Keep Your Promises to Yourself; Your Later List; Affirm Your Right Time and Timing; Chapter Four: Enroll Your Higher Self; Hello, Light Being!; Trust the Process; Three Puzzling and Powerful Reinforcing Laws; The Law of Least Effort; The Law of Intention and Desire; The Law of Detachment

Recognize and Accept Your PowerA Few Higher Self Affirmations; Chapter Five: Starting the Work; Listen for the Topic That's Right for You; Topic Considerations; Right Topic Considerations; You're the Scholar in Shining Armor; Muster Your Courage for the Proposal; What's Your Problem?; Courageous Affirmations; You Don't Have to Walk a Straight (Out)Line; Tricks to Tease and Ease Yourself Into It; Writing Doesn't Have to Be Torture: Proper Style and Semipleasant Process; Settle In: You Deserve It; Chapter Six: Sticking With It; Dissertation Interruptus; Death by Rationale

Resisting the Extension SirenGetting Sick . . . of It All; Fear of Finishing; Discipline Is a Choice; Continuing the Work: Your Wayward Outline; If You're Concerned About Your Brain; Reasonable Breaks and Balance; Working Questions; Balanced Breaks; Affirmations for Sticking with It; III: Your Near, Dear, and Despairing Significant Others; Chapter Seven: Orient the Important Others in Your Life; Stranger in a Strange Graduate School Culture; Family and Friends: Starting Off Wrong; Starting Off Right; Selfish?; Saying No; Sacrifices and Rewards: Short-Term, Mid-Term, Interminable-Term

Educate ThemBribe Them; Chapter Eight: Family; Partners: "I Didn't Bargain for This" or "I Never See You Anymore"; Kids: "We Never See You Anymore"; Involve Them: Share What You're Doing; Involving Partners; Involving Kids; Special Dates With Partners and Kids; Dates With Partners; Dates With Kids; Other Relatives: "We Never See You Anymore"; Educate and Bribe, Again; Sabotage, Unconscious or Not; Holiday Strategies; Toxic Volleys and Tough Questions; Your Neutralizing Responses; Hard Questions and Your Brilliant Answers; Troubled Waters: Fights, Separation, Divorce; See Them Whole

Send Love Ahead

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-22076-3

1-4758-1505-0