An Academic presentation byDr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Phdassistance Group www.phdassistance.comEmail: info@phdassistance.com

H O W T O M A N A G E Y O U R P R O J E C T S C H E D U L E W H IL E P U R S I N G D I S S E R TAT I O N

In BriefTopic Selection

Finding Research Question

Creating a Plan for your

Research Data Collection

Pilot Studies

Research

Report

Conclusion

Outline

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

This is a small guide to address what should be the schedule Management of your Dissertation project to provide you a good sense of direction of how to go

about it, and to help you coordinate, prepare, and track your project.

In Brief

Although several students come up with a simple study issue to answer in their Research project, several others arrive atthis stage with many suggestions but with no particularresearch problem.

What topics other students have in their minds? Discuss your ideas with others before you formulate a question by yourself.

Spend some time in the library, go through the titles of academic articles in your subject that are prevailing for more than 5 years, and review the most fascinating abstracts.

Contd..

Topic Select ion

Look at previous students' theses in your department: the subjects can encourage you, and they may contain helpful ideas for advanced research.

What subject did you consider most fascinating and is there an item that can be considered for research project?

Seek to explain it as a research question, which sets out:

The matter you should be investigating;

Your logic or paper;

Research limitations

When your team has approved your subject, you need to start the cycle of improving the subject and transforming it into something that's centered enough to lead your project.

Finding Research Quest ion

A dissertation is an ongoing undertaking that challenges you to plan your resources and carry on a number of activities.

It is important that you build a schedule that lets you devote adequate time to each assignment you have to do.

It is useful to find how many weeks you have before you submit your finished Dissertation and construct a chart that displays these weeks.

Block the weeks when you can not work, then label some bigobligations you have that will take time over that span.

Creating a Plan for your Research

Schedule for Your Research

You can follow a system which would enable you to:

Efficiently store the data while collecting it;

Recover the data fast and effectively;

Review and interpret the collected data;

Build suitable outputs for your paper, e.g. tables anddiagrams, where necessary.

The Data Collection process seems like the most criticalaspect of your research projects.Data

Collect ion

Schedule for Your Research

A pilot research includes, using the intended techniques, tentative data collection but with a very limited sample.

It helps to check the Methodology and recognize any Information that need to be clarified before going forward with the key data set.

Pilot Studies

You need to define a date in your study schedule when you should end the analysis and start writing.

Take a break. However, after getting back to the project, take a casual glance at what you have achieved already and ask yourself: ‘Do I need further research?’

Consult with your supervisor about the progress you made. Question him whether you need additional data.

Note that your Dissertation will not let you to achieve everything.

Research Report

So there are ways to manage the schedule of yourdissertation project.

The key areas of doing that are finding Research Topic and appropriate question.

Then you should devise a proper plan for your research which will include data collection, pilot studies and finally making the report.

You may also do a L iterature Review, which is a study of previously published content.

Conclusion

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