Tham khảo tài liệu 'writing your doctoral dissertation - part 5', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Jumping through hoops more adept at participating in academic dialog students become researchers. Students learn about themselves as learners and writers in the process of writing a dissertation. Some prefer isolation others seek collaboration. Doctoral students find themselves dependent on others. They cannot control what is happening. There is little explicit information to prepare them for the experience explaining their frequent complaint No one ever told me There are unstated rules and rules which change unpredictably. Without explicit information and direction doctoral students feel vulnerable and discouraged. There may be gate-keeping going on in the process of working towards an accepted dissertation. The dissertation committee plays the role of gatekeepers. The criteria for approval of a student s dissertation are neither explicit nor predictable. One individual faculty member may delay a student s progress. Conflicts with individual faculty may return to haunt the doctoral student at a later time. Doctoral students frequently try to become mind readers trying to figure out what the committee members want. When minds change the student usually decides to accommodate those changes in order to expedite the process. The doctoral process is an intensely emotional experience some people seem melancholy at some times accepting and even enthusiastic at other times. The dissertation process is clearly a memorable process. The process of writing a dissertation is both lengthy and unpredictable. There are clearly conflicting views represented among the student remarks. There are those who view the process as one that is not within their control something which is virtually being done to them. And then there are others who have a totally different experience happily noting changes in themselves and the knowledge gained from the experience. This latter group seems to feel personally involved and takes some responsibility and credit for the changes in themselves. The .
