tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 16

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 16', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Creating a professional setting Doctoral students need a variety of groups from formal seminars to informal lunch groups. .Three sources of support are necessary and vital an adviser who makes you stretch a group of faculty and students who discuss research and challenge one another and an informal group that can solve an individual s particular problem through their shared candor insightfulness irreverence humor or any combination. The writing of the dissertation isn t a time for being alone and writing in a closed room it should be a time to nurture invest in and benefit from the collegial friendships begun in course work that will continue throughout our professional careers. Gilles 1996 p. 52 There is another compelling reason for advancing the need to seek out colleagues. Part of your goal in getting the degree is to enter a new community. Now is the time to start building that community. You cannot do this alone. You will need to allow yourself to say that you don t know and along with that you need to find ways to become more knowledgeable. The companionship of others struggling with similar concerns is mutually supportive. And the struggles which you survive today will become the core of the humorous lore you repeat as your group progresses professionally. Your experiences working with colleagues on your dissertation will carry over into other professional activities. Our professional work is frequently the product of collaboration setting up a conference program searching for new faculty planning a research project and evaluating programs. The people you worked with on your dissertation can become an important resource in your professional life-after-dissertation if you learn to work well when you are students together. Frequently your student-colleagues are the only ones who truly understand what you are going through. They know all of the professors and their idiosyncrasies. They can sympathize with you when you are down they will take the time to help .