Tips and Tricks For Your Preparing For Dissertation Defense

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• Tips and tricks for your preparing for
  dissertation defense

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• Each student from different universities
  including Harvard and Cornell knows what is a
  defense of a dissertation. And the thing is, a
  lot of students are worried because of this type
  of work.

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• So, imagine. A student knows the material. He
  spent a huge amount of time to write, to format
  his dissertation in the best way. Then a defense
  starts. Unexpected question or panic, or
  something like that and he could even fail.

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• No matter where students study in Stanford or
  in any other university a dissertation defense
  is not one of the easiest deal for everyone.

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• They say that the best tactic is to be ready. So,
  be ready with us, here are some useful tips for
  you.

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• The first step of preparing for dissertation
  defense is getting familiar with the format of
  your defense how much time do you have for your
  presentation, which is a structure of your review.

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• In accordance to the format start organizing your
  presentation.

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• All the professional PowerPoint presentation
  services inform that your presentation should be
  a sort of a guidance for you and for your
  auditory.

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• You can consider your presentation like a short
  summary of your dissertation speech. Information
  in your presentation file should be divided into
  blocks, it should be bulleted and short in order
  to show main points of your research and speech
  in general.

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• Dont add long blocks of text to slides. You
  should add less than 5-6 bullets of information
  to a slide.

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• A long text will be boring for your audience or
  they will just read everything from your
  presentation instead of listening to you.

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• I accordance to a type of the defense your
  presentation should have all the necessary parts
  for example, main idea, main problem, purpose,
  questions, hypotheses, theoretical background,
  samples, data collection, and analysis.

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• Remember that each slide should give the
  information about only one direction of
  information. A new topic or a new package of
  arguments new slide.

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• You shouldnt just stand and read the text from a
  presentation or from a sheet of paper. It is a
  speech make it live.

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• More you know the subject of your paper more
  you prepared for questions.

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• Think about creating a little list of notes which
  can help you during the defense.
• But be careful for some people notes are not
  only unhelpful but also confusing. A stress and a
  panic in combination with notes can make you get
  lost in both your notes and speech.

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• Also, it is a great idea to train your
  dissertation defense with the help of your
  friends or relatives. Some students from Yale
  even help each other with that by creating groups
  for defense practice. Just ask someone to get
  into a discussion.

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• In addition to all of that, you can try to turn
  to some reliable dissertation consulting service.
  But if you are sure that you will make everything
  right get your chance!

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• If you want to know more about this topic check
  out this book. It will be definitely useful.

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