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Tables of Contents for Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
2
Introduction
xiii
1. Beginning
3
16
Writing Your Way In
5
2
Developing Your Own Work Process
7
2
Choosing a Topic
9
6
Doing Research
15
2
On Ownership
17
1
About Maxims
18
1
2. Choosing an Advisor and a Committee
19
13
Your Advisor
19
4
Your Committee
23
1
Using Your Advisor Well
24
2
On Dissertation Paranoia
26
1
Troubles with Your Advisor
27
5
3. Getting Started Writing
32
17
Thoughts on the Writing Process
32
4
Using Behavioral Principles
36
2
About Creating a Writing Addiction
38
2
Freewriting and Making a Mess
40
4
Setting Your Daily Writing Goal
44
5
4. From Zero to First Draft
49
14
The Zero Draft
49
2
The First Draft
51
1
Getting to Your First Draft
51
1
Asking Questions
52
2
A Few Approaches to Writing a First Draft
54
6
More Strategies for Working on Your First Draft
60
3
5. Getting to the Midpoint: Reviewing Your Process and Your Progress
63
17
Taking Stock of Your Dissertation
63
2
Your Writing Process
65
5
Your Writing Progress
70
2
On Deadlines
72
4
R&R
76
4
6. Interruptions from Outside and Inside
80
19
Interruptions from Outside
80
4
Ambiguous Interruptions and Events
84
2
Interruptions from Inside
86
7
Funky Exercises for Times When You're Stuck
93
6
7. You, Your Readers, and the Dissertation Support Group
99
17
Writing for Yourself and for Others
99
2
You and Your Readers
101
3
The Dissertation Support Group
104
12
8. Revising: The Second Draft and Beyond
116
11
Thinking About the Revision Process
116
4
Useful Revision Strategies
120
5
Revision and Truth Telling
125
2
9. The Best Dissertation Is a Done Dissertation
127
9
The Costs of Growth
127
2
Hitting the Wall
129
1
Getting On with It
130
1
A Possible Horrible Scenario
131
1
The Thesis Defense
132
3
Afterward
135
1
10. Life After the Dissertation
136
15
Publishing Your Dissertation
137
2
Publishing Your Dissertation as Articles
139
3
Transforming Your Dissertation into a Book
142
7
Becoming a Writer
149
2
Appendix I. How the Computer Revolution Affects You and Your Dissertation
151
8
Appendix II. Some Advice for Advisors
159
12
Some Useful Books and Articles
171
2
Index
173