tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 7', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The stages in writing a dissertation Approval of the Dissertation Proposal To progress from writing the proposal to achieving approval for the proposal you are likely to accomplish several steps approval by the two- or three-member dissertation committee acceptance by the program faculty and acceptance by an inter-departmental group of faculty. Your primary focus in seeking approval is your committee who have expertise in your specific domain and have worked with you in the formulation of your topic and research questions. Your committee helps you in designing your study. Your committee then has a vested interest in making sure your proposal is funded or approved when it gets reviewed by a committee of the program faculty. Thus they are likely to be very cautious in offering their approval. Their academic standards are open to public scrutiny in your dissertation proposal. They will want to avoid problems with collegial and external reviewers so their evaluations are likely to be intense. They will look at each word carefully. They will look to see if there is a cohesive organization. They will certainly be concerned with the depth of your knowledge as represented in this document. You are likely to revise your document many times in this process. Once they have each independently approved your proposal other faculty are likely to review it as well. Some of these reviewers may be responsible for the format others may be concerned with protecting the human subjects who may provide the data for your study while others still may be knowledgeable about your research design and or research problem. These reviews are all intended to discover potential problems prior to initiating the major study. When recommendations are offered you need to consult with your committee about your next steps in modifying your proposal. Ultimately your proposal is sent to the Office of the Director of Graduate Studies which accepts the recommendations of these groups verifying that all the