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Advice for new or potential graduate students.
dissertation; choose a topic you want to stay up past midnight reading about. That said, you should still read job listings to learn what employers request in application packages.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-to-successfully-complete-a-phd/
Interview the faculty
When looking for a thesis supervisor, talk to your program chair about your passion an...
From PhD to Life
dissertation turned into a book manuscript. I worked on it for several months, on and off, even writing a book proposal that I aimed to send to academic publishers. My intention back then was to publish a book based largely on my dissertation. The closest I came was to send a query to an acquisition...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/im-working-on-a-book-about-transitioning-from-phd-to-life/
Features
A number of programs are exploring options for applied scholarship within the PhD.
dissertation? While their purpose and relevance have been questioned (particularly in light of lengthy completion times), most are wary of any change for fear of diminishing their rigour.
For dissertation defenders, Félix Grenier might be considered a blasphemer. A doctoral candidate in politica...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/taking-doctorate-new-directions/
News
Creative writing students at UBC strike compromise with the university to protect their future works
dissertation could be a novel, a play, or a collection of poetry or short stories that they hope to publish and sell to a wider audience.
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/some-graduates-question-thesis-publication-requirement/
Border spill over
When a group of creative writing students in the United States expressed reservations last spring about submitting their graduate the...
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dissertation. I envied people who were doing their PhDs. I would think ‘Take me with you!” says Tom Howell, co-creator of a radio project inspired by the work of Canadian PhD students.
Introducing their audience to students who have spent years thinking about a particular topic is the mission...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/listen-up-cbc-radio-explores-the-work-of-phds/
In my opinion
Research shows that the concept and practice of “other-mothering” can help Black students navigate the complex and often secretive world of academia.
dissertation and defending it.
While my thesis supervisor offered invaluable guidance about my writing and about my dissertation, I longed for something much more culturally familiar. I needed the support of
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/navigating-racism-black-graduate-students-need-support/
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Golden opportunity or Pandora’s Box?
dissertation bound for free but don’t have the means to publish it themselves, it may be a good option,” explains University of Ottawa student Tara Macdonald (who did not have her thesis published by one of the publishing houses in question). However, according to the latest information availabl...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/publishing-your-thesis-online/
From PhD to Life
dissertation, you can find her writing for Continue reading and Continue reading, where she’s the co-editor of
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-melissa-dalgleish/
Features
None has landed a tenure-track job, and their lives have had plenty of struggle and uncertainty. But, their narratives point to multiple career paths branching out from the PhD.
dissertation – she called it a “Frankensteinish” thesis – were mostly bereft of joy. She entered graduate studies because of her sheer love of literature. But, because she did not bring to the PhD program a strong sense of purpose, she was not fulfilled by the work she did. Instead of cultiv...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/four-phd-grads-in-the-humanities-tell-their-stories/
In my opinion
I work in an interdisciplinary way, but I find that I am still sitting on the fence.
dissertation that was jointly supervised by a developmental psychologist and a physician/public health researcher. I recall at my PhD dissertation proposal meeting, one member of my committee suggested that if we couldn’t all just agree on the method and approach of my research projects, we could ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/is-interdisciplinarity-a-field-orskill/
The Associate
The pressure to keep it short.
dissertation until sometime in the fourth year.
Disciplines bear their own responsibility; some fields’ dissertations may be prolonged because they are overlong. I used our library system to track the 10 most recently completed PhDs in each of the departments in my faculty and found that the av...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-associate/how-much-should-we-expect-our-students-to-read-and-write/
Speculative Diction
dissertation, which has taken up an ever-larger chunk of my focus and thinking time. This is a good thing of course, but it means I’ve also been more impressed than ever at how others are able to write
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/down-the-research-rabbit-hole/
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How to wrestle your dissertation to the mat
dissertation.
Writing a thesis requires both short-term and long-term time management skills, because it is a lengthy project that does without external deadlines. "You see students who are excellent but they just never finish their thesis," said Dr. Eviatar Zerubavel, author of The Clockwork Mus...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/thesis-time-management/
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Two authors of a recent Canadian volume on scholarly writing offer solid advice on building a solid academic bibliography
dissertation and reworking the material into two or more papers is often a good place to start. You can also publish some of the data that you gathered during your studies, but did not include in the dissertation itself. You can write:
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a how-to paper,
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an ...https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/worthy-of-print/
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Marketing your transferable skills for employment beyond academia
dissertation process is ultimately aimed at the generation of new knowledge, and the pencil-powered pioneers who go down that road will be asked to draw some clear lines around their very specific contributions to the field. That specialization is, for better or worse, the means by which hiring comm...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/doctor-who/
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Faites valoir vos compétences transférables pour obtenir un emploi hors du milieu universitaire
dissertation vise essentiellement à générer de nouvelles connaissances, et les pionniers qui s'aventurent sur cette voie armés d'un simple stylo devront délimiter clairement leur contribution à leur domaine. C'est cette spécialisation qui, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire, permettra aux comit...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/vous-avez-un-docto-quoi/
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Sessional contracts can be ideal for catapulting into a tenure track position – if you use them strategically
dissertation to develop a concept of educational theory and pedagogy.
Consequently, in the past two to three years, she has been nominated for four significant teaching awards and was awarded York's University-Wide Teaching Award in 2007. York is one of the few Canadian universities that allows c...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/getting-a-tenure-track-edge-through-sessional-teaching/
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Tips for building your academic profile.
dissertation makes it easy for a committee to remove you from its list of prospects.
If you make the first cut, you will typically be evaluated across four broad criteria: research, teaching, service and fit. The first three are within your control, but the last one is not.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/landing-an-academic-job-interview/
Research
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Advice to help make sure you keep a good work-life balance.
dissertation, in its entirety, many times to ensure consistency and coherence.
5. Put yourself first, then your family, then your job, then your studies. Doctoral work, especially at the dissertation stage, is solitary, time-consuming, and can take a toll on health and/or relationships. ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/5-tips-to-help-you-on-your-doctoral-journey/
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Academic copyediting program is a crucial resource to a growing number of international graduate students at U of Alberta.
dissertations for graduate students at the University of Alberta in August 2011, I was given strict orders: fix grammar, punctuation and syntax, and teach my clients to do the same. My job was not to rewrite.
That was fine with me. Most of the papers were about subjects such as asphalt, concrete ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/writing-advisers-help-polish-grad-students-papers/
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