Dissertations are five chapters
long and vary in length but my program expects a minimum of 120 pages and desires at least 150. In order to collect data (Chapter 4) the preliminary proposal
must be defended and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) must give their
approval. The preliminary proposal
includes the first three chapters which include the statement of purpose,
literature review, and methodology.
I am hoping that by blogging about
it then it will help keep me on track.
In my program we had two adjunct professors and one of them gave us some
advice. She said, “Take advantage of
every opportunity to write. Write something every day. Write ate least one sentence a day.”
Though I hope to follow her advice
and write every day I have no plans to update my blog that frequently. I will update the blog every few days with
the goal of having the preliminary proposal complete by June.
Different
programs encourage various methods for writing.
In my program it is theorized that chapter two, the literature review,
will help form your purpose and determine how you frame the methodology.
This semester we have taken a course titled ‘Reading in
Higher Education’ in which we have been writing chapter 2. I am in my final class session of the spring
semester now. The instructor has been
covering a power point on citations, references, quotations, paraphrasing, and
other writing tools that we need to make sure we understand. Following her advise we are working individually on our own assignment.
Our final draft of Chapter 2 is due by May 1st. As of today I have about twenty pages and need to have at least thirty. My current twenty pages needs significant editing. My topic is examining academic and social integration within freshmen college students that enroll for the first time in a summer school bridge program.
*The above picture is from class where all 12 of us have laptops open as we work away.
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