What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

From choosing a topic and conducting research to crafting a strong argument, writing a thesis paper can be a rewarding experience. It can also be a challenging experience. If you've never written a ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

you will have to produce written proposals for you research. In some programs at Northwestern, you will need to write a formal dissertation proposal. And when you become an independent researcher, you ...

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Carolyn Trietsch recently defended her Ph.D. in entomology at Penn State. You can view her website or follow her on Twitter @carolyntrietsch. I just finished my Ph.D. and, over the last few months, ...