tailieunhanh - Writing your doctoral dissertation - part 28

Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 28', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Defending your dissertation quality control academic conversation among peers dissemination and closure. Each institution is concerned with sustaining an implicit academic standard. Your dissertation will be revised to insure that it meets the university s standard for acceptable scholarship. The oral defense is one setting where that quality control is evidenced. It is not one faculty member s judgment but rather a collective decision which yields a pass on your oral examination. The orals provide the opportunity for an academic conversation among peers. Now that you have completed a rigorous research project your research apprenticeship is ending. Your orals mark this transition as you are invited to sit at the table and talk about your research as a peer with your professors. The professors are initially evaluating and ultimately acknowledging that you have met the criteria for membership in the community of research scholars. Your ideas are as highly valued as theirs and you have an equal place at the table. Another objective of the orals is to disseminate the findings of your study. Your orals are the first time you will talk formally about your dissertation s findings. This event is important in the academic world. You are sharing valuable information on new scholarship which has the potential to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in a specific discipline probably the discipline in which your committee members are respected experts. With your knowledge from your just completed research study you are now expected to provide authoritative insight into previously uncharted or contested issues. Following your isolation and immersion in your research you will want to disseminate your findings to others who are part of your new community. By sharing your findings you enable others to have access to cutting edge information the Holy Grail of most academics. This is also the opportunity for you to rehearse how you may present your study in other academic .