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Title: Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis by Joan Bolker ISBN: 0-8050-4891-X Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (24 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A must read for Ph.D. Candidates
Comment: This is a quick read that provides some of the best advice on controlling and writing the dissertation that I've seen. Much of the advice Bolker provides seems common sense but I've known few graduate students to use it without a guide like this. Applying her suggestions for writing and organizing will get you done with less agony.

Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book for grad students in the humanities
Comment: This is one of the most helpful guides to writing a dissertation ever published. Bolker suggests that students write early and often as they shape their dissertations. Her hints, especially the concept of a "zero draft", help students avoid or overcome procrastination. I'm a clinical psychologist who coaches grad students, post-docs and faculty, and this is one of the first books I recommend. It is especially useful for students in the humanities and for those still searching for a dissertation topic.

Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a gem
Comment: This book is a gem. I like it because it takes a process approach to teach people how to write. The book suggests process measures and promises that if you make sure you meet these targets, they will lead you to achieve your performance measures - the piece of writing your desperately want to finish.

My favorite quote is:
"Writing in order to think rather than in order to write", pp. xvi

My favorite measures are:
-Using a "Model dissertation", pp. 12
-Maxims, pp. 18
-"Write first ...every day", pp. 38, 47-78
-Set daily goals (# of pages - i.e. 3 - 6 per day), pp. 45
-"Don't waste words" - write it down using a notebook, a pocket computer, ... etc, pp. 47
-A tentative timetable (deadlines you set need to be very generous), pp. 74

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