These Key Tips Will Help You Finish Your Dissertation

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Below are five simple tips to help you finish your dissertation. These pointers are best considered at the beginning stages of the dissertation process but can be used at any point, to get things back on track or provide a bit of motivation during your darkest dissertation hour! 1. Have a sense of proportion. Almost all doctoral students want their dissertation to be a great scholarship-changing work which causes committee members to be amazed by what they have read – a true magnum opus. The danger with this kind of grandiose thinking? Your writing becomes trapped in perfectionist limbo-land or a never-ending “history of the world” with an infinite number of pages, points, ideas and intellectual triumphs with no end in sight. Unless you’re Heidegger or Nils Bohr, forget it. Don’t bite off more than you chew, “literarily-speaking”.