PhD: Causes of Anxiety

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PhDCause for Anxiety
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Choosing the topic

• At the mention of a PhD dissertation, people
  start losing sleep, they start wondering how they
  may be able to get around selecting the topic and
  convincing the evaluator to choose the topic.

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Creating the proposal

• Making the introductory abstract or proposal
  writing for the dissertation is another factor
  that gives the jitters to PhD students. The
  reason for this is that the proposal needs to be
  the entire dissertation written in short and that
  would imply that the PhD students should know
  exactly what they are going to showcase in their
  project.

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Working on the structure

• The rules and regulations that are set or
  prescribed by the universities is a major reason
  for anxiety among PhD students. With the rules
  for structure of chapters and the flow of written
  material, one tends to get overwhelmed.

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The write up

• More than anything else, the write up itself is
  something that becomes a cause for worry for the
  PhD aspirants. With the stringent check on
  plagiarism, spellings and grammar, it is
  something that one has to pay special attention
  to. Hence dissertation writing itself sometimes
  become a cause of worry.

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The research

• No dissertation is complete without making a
  research and the study requires a series of
  methodologies that help in bringing inferences in
  the study. The thought of having to use the
  methods and the formulae is something that may
  turn into a nightmare for many students.

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The presentation

• When working on the dissertation, one also needs
  to be careful about the right way of presenting
  the project with all the regular and special
  attachments such as the various studies, surveys
  and questionnaires along with the referencing and
  the mention of all the resources that were used
  in the process of making the project. Keeping a
  track of all the details and having to put it on
  paper is a majorly daunting task for those doing
  the dissertation.

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Sticking to timelines

• In the entire process of creating a dissertation,
  there is one constant that keeps adding to the
  anxiety and that is the deadlines and the dates
  for submitting various parts of the project.

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The solution

• The solution is simple, one must opt to approach
  an expert or an experienced person who may be
  able to serve as a mentor or a dissertation tutor
  outside of the university and may be able to
  guide towards achieving the dissertation with
  ease. Someone who has gone through or evaluated
  the PhD dissertation process, may be the ideal
  person to mentor an aspirant.