tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 13

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 13', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Roles and responsibilities of committees faculty to consider the best use of their collective and individual time. When your dissertation proposal is accepted your committee is officially designated. The proposed faculty committee both supports your proposal for approval and advances the approval of their membership on your dissertation committee. University Concerns The university is concerned that the faculty who are assigned to a specific committee represent the appropriate areas of expertise needed to conduct the research described in the proposal. In many respects the university is serving in the role typically taken by funding authorities when deciding whether to support one project over another. Both sponsoring groups have a responsibility to safeguard the scholarly standards of the academic community approving the intellectual rigor of the committee to supervise the conduct of the research. The committee has a clear charge to conduct a specific research project one which utilizes the faculty s established expertise. The committee and the project are thus carefully crafted to be interdependent. The university is delegating responsibility for the scholarly integrity of the project to specific faculty those the university recognizes as having the appropriate expertise. The University s Commitment to your Dissertation Work When you form your dissertation committee you are tacitly committing to writing your dissertation and to completing your doctoral work. And this is a two-way relationship. The establishment of a dissertation committee under the aegis of the university marks an official contract between the doctoral student and the university identifying specific faculty who will invest their expertise and time in your apprenticeship. This is a major step in your progress toward your doctoral degree. It does not happen casually. The university is virtually entering into a legal contract naming you as the doctoral student researcher working with specific .