There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Once you have passed your comprehensive exams, the time has come for you to complete the dissertation proposal. In this memo, I give you some of my thoughts on ways to approach the proposal. Also, I ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

Alexandra (AJ) Gold is a Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature at Boston University. Follow her on Twitter, @agold258, and check out her website. I wrote a full draft of my humanities dissertation in ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Writing a dissertation is a grueling process that does not just require academic prowess, an ...

I just sat there. I was really shocked. I knew not to run up and get her a hug even though I wanted to really bad. priya parker This is a story about Mrs. Ricca, a teacher in Panama City, Florida, and ...