What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

Once you have passed your comprehensive exams, the time has come for you to complete the dissertation proposal. In this memo, I give you some of my thoughts on ways to approach the proposal. Also, I ...

At my university, we offer a master’s degree in criminology and a criminal justice program with two options for courses of study, or tracks. The first track requires students to take a series of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Roger Conover, the press’s executive editor, tells me that the handbook has been staple reading for ...

What better way to put an abrupt end to summer than by recommending a book about thesis writing, that source of anxiety and dread for many a college and grad school student about to enter the ...