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Literature Search. Perform a thorough literature review, even if it means having to understand several different areas. You don't want to find out after 4-5 years of hard work that your dissertation work has already been done.
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Literature Search • Perform a thorough literature review, even if it means having to understand several different areas. • You don't want to find out after 4-5 years of hard work that your dissertation work has already been done. • Also, performing a thorough literature review will give you an opportunity to leverage existing work, so you don't have to start from scratch.
Four key questions • For every research investigation (along the way to completing your dissertation), be able to concisely describe: • 1) what is the problem you're addressing(also why?) • 2) what is your hypothesis? • 3) what is the scope of your proposed solution? • 4) how will you validate the solution?
Never stop writing • Be sure to write up your research results as you go along. DO NOT wait until the end of your dissertation to publish papers about your work. • You need to get feedback from the community as you go along. The other side effect is that it will be much easier to compile your dissertation.
