tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 12

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 12', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Forming your dissertation committee of unpublished work in progress as well as important published resources. You will need to respect the knowledge of your chair who is likely to criticize your work requiring you to revise texts for example. You will need to value and feel comfortable with the way in which feedback and criticism are provided. Time to work with you as you progress. Since faculty are fairly independent in scheduling appointments you will need to identify faculty who will make time in their schedules to work with you. A related element is the university status of the faculty. Whereas untenured faculty contracts may not be renewed tenured faculty are likely to be more stable. Faculty who leave one institution frequently elect to continue working with their doctoral students but these arrangements get to be more complex. Sabbatical leaves also potentially interrupt progress. You will need to consider the relative stability and accessibility of faculty along with your own time constraints and projections. Success at bringing students to graduation. Since you are concerned with completing your degree you will want to work with someone who has a fairly consistent record of success with students finishing their dissertations. Some students seek to be connected with the stars in the department with people who are well-known internationally. Star-status however may contribute to students difficulty in meeting standards or in finding time to meet with them when they are on the conference circuit. On the other hand their national status might facilitate inclusion at prestigious professional conferences. Nurturing students in the academic tradition. The professor must be comfortable in initially leading but eventually freeing students to become independent researchers. At first the student is dependent on the chair and the committee but eventually the student should be perceived as an expert and a colleague. If the professor is a confidence-booster for the .