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Your Passion and Possible Paths to a Dissertation Question Dr. Howard Schechter Dr. Joe Nolan

Your Passion and Possible Paths to a Dissertation Question Dr. Howard Schechter Dr. Joe Nolan. Lansdowne Residency April 17-20, 2008. Welcome to the Bunker!!!!. No skateboarding allowed! Tunnels make great doo-wop harmony rehearsal halls.

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Your Passion and Possible Paths to a Dissertation Question Dr. Howard Schechter Dr. Joe Nolan

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  1. Your Passion and Possible Paths to a Dissertation QuestionDr. Howard SchechterDr. Joe Nolan Lansdowne Residency April 17-20, 2008

  2. Welcome to the Bunker!!!! • No skateboarding allowed! • Tunnels make great doo-wop harmony rehearsal halls. • The food is very “cruiselike”. You will gain weight here if you don’t watch out. • If you’re bored, ask the desk clerk for the treasure map. • You will find yourself going outside, just to find out where you are.

  3. Unreasonable persons rule the world!!

  4. In order to achieve social change you must be an unreasonable person!!

  5. How to become a Fud (PhD) • Have an interest area. • Come up with a research question. • Start exploring it during the KAMs, preliminary coursework, professional papers • Let your annotated bibliographies or preliminary research references serve as a foundation for your dissertation literature review. • Pick the right committee • Have a thick skin.

  6. How to influence social change • Find a problem in the world that moves you to action (What makes you upset????) • It must be a problem that wakes you up at night. • Your search for a solution must keep you going through the day.

  7. The Fiendish Master Plan

  8. Exercise 1- If you don´t know where you´re going, any road will take you there! • What is your fiendish master plan ? (25 words or less) • Why do you want to be a ¨FUD¨? • How do these two answers match? • Your school or College (Program) • Your current area of concentration for study • Your current occupation. • Do these 3 answers relate? If not, what are you intending to do to change this? • Where do you see yourself in 5 years? • …in 10 years? • How does this match up to your fiendish master plan?

  9. The road map • The fiendish master plan • Preliminary research (KAMs, courses, papers, etc) • The proposal • Dissertation • The job search (Academia, Entrepreneurship, Other) • After you get there…

  10. Preliminary Research • Identifies the problem • Explores all angles of the problem • Starts to brainstorm solutions

  11. The proposal & dissertation • The proposal starts to offer solutions to the problem. • The dissertation tests them out.

  12. The job search • Starts you on the road to providing that solution.

  13. Where are you at now? Research Exercise • Does your research up until now match your fiendish master plan? • If not, are you prepared to scrap what you have done so far? You really should be. • If not, you still have options. • The rest of the day is devoted to exploring those options

  14. Confused yet?

  15. Had enough for the day?

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