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Every year thousands of graduate students face the daunting--sometimes terrifying--

challenge of writing a thesis or dissertation. But most of them have received ittle or no instruction on doing it well. This book shows them how in ways no other book does.It combines the practical guidance and theoretical understanding students need to complete their theses or dissertations with maximum insight and minimum stress.

Drawing on her extensive research and experience advising hundreds of graduate

students, Dr. Irene Clark presents a solid overview of the writing process. Clark shows how to apply innovative theories of process and genre and understand the writing process for what it is: your entrance into a conversation with the scholarly community that will determine your success or failure. This book offers useful strategies for each phase of the process, from choosing advisors and identifying topics through writing,revision, and review. Coverage includes.

作者简介：

Irene L.Clark is Professor of English, Director of Composition, and Director of the Master's Option in Rhetoric and Composition at California State University, Northridge. She previously taught at the University of Southern California (USC), where she also codirected the university's Writing Program and directed its Writing Center.

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction: Writing a Thesis or Dissertation: An Overview of the Process

1 Getting Started

Difficulties Associated with Writing in Graduate School

Differences Between a Thesis/Dissertation and a Seminar Paper

The Necessity of Beginning Early

An Exercise in Preliminary Thinking

To Stimulate Thinking

2 So What? Discovering Possibilities

Beginnings Are Always Difficult

Brainstorming Activities

Keeping a Proposal Log

Interacting with Text-Partners

Keeping Track of Materials

3 The Proposal as an Argument:

A Genre Approach to the Proposal

The Writing Process

Finding a Topic

Joining the Conversation

The Proposal as a Genre

Components of the Proposal

Title: The Student, the Essay, and Teacher Response: How Three Different Response Methods Facilitate Student Revision Choices

The Proposal and Non-Native Speakers of English

4 Mapping Texts: The Reading/Writing Connection

The Challenge of "Navigating" Unfamiliar and Densely Populated Texts

5 Writing and Revising

Genre Expectations of the Thesis/Dissertation

Create a Preliminary Template

The Revision Process

Global Versus Surface Revision

Global Revision

Revising for Organization and Structure

Using a Function Outline

Signposting the Organization of Your Ideas

Revising by Considering Purpose and Audience

Facilitating the Revision Process

6 Writing the Literature Review

7 Using Visual Materials

8 The Advisor and Thesis/Dissertation Committee

9 Working with Grammar and Style

10 Practical Considerations

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A complete, step-by-step, practical overview of the process of writing successful theses and dissertations Every year thousands of graduate students face the daunting-sometimes terrifying- challenge of writing a thesis or dissertation. But most of them have received little or no instruction on doing it well. This book shows them how in ways no other book does. It combines the practical guidance and theoretical understanding students need to complete their theses or dissertations with maximum insight and minimum stress. Drawing on her extensive research and experience advising hundreds of graduate students, Dr. Irene Clark presents a solid overview of the writing process. Clark shows how to apply innovative theories of process and genre and understand the writing process for what it is: your entrance into a conversation with the scholarly community that will determine your success or failure. This book offers useful strategies for each phase of the process, from choosing advisors and identifying topics through writing, revision, and review. Coverage includes * Getting started: overcoming procrastination and writer's block * Understanding the genre of the thesis or dissertation * Speaking the "language of the academy" * Writing compelling proposals * Developing and revising drafts * Constructing effective literature reviews * Working with tables, graphs, and other visual materials * Working with advisors and dissertation committees * Avoiding inadvertent plagiarism Experience based, theoretically grounded, jargon free, and practical, Writing the Successful Thesis and Dissertation will help you become a more effective writer-and a more meaningful contributor to the scholarly conversation. Preface xi Introduction: Writing a Thesis or Dissertation: An Overview of the Process xix Chapter 1: Getting Started 1 Chapter 2: So What? Discovering Possibilities 17 Chapter 3: The Proposal as an Argument: A Genre Approach to the Proposal 33 Chapter 4: Mapping Texts: The Reading/Writing Connection 63 Chapter 5: Writing and Revising 83 Chapter 6: Writing the Literature Review 103 Chapter 7: Using Visual Materials 125 Chapter 8: The Advisor and Thesis/Dissertation Committee 139 Chapter 9: Working with Grammar and Style 155 Chapter 10: Practical Considerations 175 Index: 193