Dissertation Writing Seminar EDLP 380 Peg Boyle Single

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Dissertation Writing SeminarEDLP 380Peg Boyle
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• Notes on Notes

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Hour Glass of Single System for Writing
Productivity
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• E-mentoring or Telementoring NoNs
• Single Single (2004, in press) a review
  article on e-mentoring that focused on empirical
  articles
• Single Single (2004, in press) identified five
  notable aspects of e-mentoring that seem
  advantageous two are related to outcomes (a)
  the value of impartiality and (b) the value of
  inter-organizational connections two are
  features that seem efficacious (a) mandated
  interactive web-based training, (b) regular
  electronic coaching or facilitation, and (c)
  e-community building.
• Single Single (2004, in press) presents a
  Model of Structured E-mentoring that includes
  Planning, Program Structure, and Assessment
• Single Muller (2001) Provides a definition of
  e-mentoring A relationship that is established
  between a more senior individual (mentor) and a
  lesser skilled or experienced individual
  (protégé), primarily using electronic
  communications, and that is intended to develop
  and grow the skills, knowledge, confidence, and
  cultural understanding of the protégé to help him
  or her succeed, while also assisting in the
  development of the mentor (p. 108).
• Single Muller (2001) Provides a definition of
  e-mentoring programs E-mentoring that occurs
  within a formalized program environment, which
  provides training and coaching to increase the
  likelihood of engagement in the e-mentoring
  process, and relies on program evaluation to
  identify improvements for future programs and to
  determine the impact on the participants p. 108.
• Bennett, Hupert, Tsilalas, Meade, Honey (1998)
  earliest Federally funded (by NSF) e-mentoring
  program Telementoring Young Women in Engineering
  and Computing project
• Bennett, Hupert, Tsilalas, Meade, Honey (1998)
  the project informed the e-mentoring field about
  many aspects essential to conducting an
  e-mentoring program, such as the importance of
  easy access to technology and participant
  training.

• Hour Glass of Single System for Writing
  Productivity

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NoNs1. Bennett,
Hupert, Tsilalas, Meade, Honey (1998) earliest
Federally funded (by NSF) e-mentoring program
Telementoring Young Women in Engineering and
Computing project 2. Bennett, Hupert,
Tsilalas, Meade, Honey (1998) the project
informed the e-mentoring field about many aspects
essential to conducting an e-mentoring program,
such as the importance of easy access to
technology and participant training.

• Prose from a Book Chapter
• From our understanding of the history of
  e-mentoring, the Telementoring Young Women in
  Engineering and Computing project was the first
  federally supported project to conduct a
  structured e-mentoring program. The Telementoring
  Project was supported by the National Science
  Foundation project and was funded beginning in
  1994 and ran for five years. The Telementoring
  Project focused on gender equity in technology
  and sought to determine whether e-mentoring was
  be an effective way to mentor high school females
  and support their interests in computers and
  computer fields. This early project informed the
  e-mentoring field about many aspects essential to
  conducting an e-mentoring program, such as the
  importance of easy access to technology and
  participant training (Bennett, Hupert, Tsilalas,
  Meade, Honey, 1998).

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NoNsSingle Muller (2001) Provides a
definition of e-mentoring programs E-mentoring
that occurs within a formalized program
environment, which provides training and coaching
to increase the likelihood of engagement in the
e-mentoring process, and relies on program
evaluation to identify improvements for future
programs and to determine the impact on the
participants p. 108.

• Prose from a Book Chapter
• While the proceeding definition of e-mentoring
  can apply to either naturally occurring
  relationships or relationships facilitated with a
  program format, the following quotation provides
  a definition of structured e-mentoring programs
• E-mentoring that occurs within a formalized
  program environment, which provides training and
  coaching to increase the likelihood of engagement
  in the e-mentoring process, and relies on program
  evaluation to identify improvements for future
  programs and to determine the impact on the
  participants (Single Muller, 2001, p. 108).

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One Way to Think Creatively about NoNs
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A Second Way to Think Creatively about NoNs
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Covey
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Writerly Notes

• Change to format
• Include a section on Discussion/ideas of the
  authors
• Trends
• Watch APA5 format
• Be judicious about quotes
• Keep in mind that your dissertation audience is
  your ultimate audience
• Memories are fickle

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Change Format of WNs

•         Full reference at the top
•         Overview of the article
•         Methods and population
•         Findings
•         Discussion or authors interpretation of
  their findings
•         Quotations
•         So what? Or how this influence my work
  and thinking.

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Trends APA5 Format

• Watch sentence versus title case
• Use only one city the one closest to you
• Volume is italicized, number is not

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Trends - Be judicious about quotes

• Straightforward
• Strong
• Succinct
• Examples
• Its time to abandon high-stakes policies and
  substitute more formative testing programs which,
  when they uncover poor school performance, result
  in fiscal, intellectual, and social reforms that
  will make a difference for the students in those
  schools. (p. 37)
• As we think about testing policies, we should
  remember the wisdom in the farmers comment that
  weighing a pig every day wont ever make the pig
  any fatter. Eventually, you have to feed the
  pig. (p. 37)

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Trends Keep in mind your audience

• Your ultimate audience is your dissertation
  audience
• Practice writing for them

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Trends Memories are Fickle

• Include details and definitions
• Be as focused (not general) as possible
• Make sure what you write will make sense to you
  in five months

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• My focus statement for this study addresses
  womens leadership experiences in community-based
  grassroots organizations, by examining why they
  join grassroots efforts and what personal and
  organizational variables influence their move
  into leadership positions within the group.
• This study explores the intersection of gender
  and settlement by examining three dimensions of
  gender relations among recently resettled Bosnian
  Muslim women and men in a rural area discursive
  constructions of gender, household division of
  labor, and spatial mobility.

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• A comparison of leadership styles of managers of
  communication and technology units in the USDA
  Cooperate State Research, Education, and
  Extension Services using the Competing Values
  Framework
• To investigate which methods of improving school
  climate at the 7th and 8th grade level are
  effective as measured by reducing suspensions,
  increasing attendance, and increasing overall
  student and staff satisfaction at a public middle
  school.

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• 3C Focus Statement
• Clear
• Concise
• Convincing

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• 3C Focus Statement
• Clear Includes your subject matter, constructs,
  timeframe
• Pitfalls not yet focused, need to be clear on
  where you are going, but can evolve over time

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• 3C Focus Statement
• Concise Pithy, can be readily told and
  understood
• Pitfalls too long and rambling

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• 3C Focus Statement
• Convincing Interesting enough that your audience
  wants to read or hear more
• Pitfalls boring, if you cant communicate the
  excitement, can you live with this topic for 1
  years?

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• Areas to include
• Population
• Timeframe of study (longitudinal or cross
  sectional)
• Qualitative relationships, themes, descriptors
  (dont use directional terms)
• Quantitative correlational, descriptive,
  predictive
• SPN self as the subject, identify the areas of
  interest and context

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Trends Memories are Fickle

• Include details and definitions
• Be as focused (not general) as possible
• Make sure what you write will make sense to you
  in five months

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WN Trends Memories are Fickle

• Include details and definitions
• Be as focused (not general) as possible
• Make sure what you write will make sense to you
  in five months

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Trends from NoNs

• Do feel free to have multiple NoN entries from
  one WN.
• Dont overestimate your memory.
• If you are citing a conference presentation, do
  contact authors to determine whether they wrote
  it into a paper and request a reprint also
  request that they send you related work.
• Allows you to practice using your own tone and
  voice while referring to the work of others

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Trends from NoNs

• You tended to be too general instead of too
  specific - Do include points on the NoNs that
  will allow for making cross-article connections.
• The type of article will influence how you refer
  to the finding or assertion
• Research suggests
• Author asserts
• Findings support
• Authors propose
• In a review of the literatureBased on years of
  experience, author has found

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Focusing on Focus Statements

• 3C
• Clear Concise - Convincing
• Areas to include
• Population
• Timeframe of study (longitudinal or cross
  sectional)
• Qualitative relationships, themes, descriptors
  (dont use directional terms)
• Quantitative correlational, descriptive,
  predictive
• SPN self as the subject, identify the areas of
  interest and context

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Mapping FS to 1PO

• Focus Statement
• This case study explores the ways in which six
  mothers in a semi-rural Vermont town experience a
  sense of belonging in their busy lives.
• One Page Outline
• Introduction
• Human desire to belong mapped to experience a
  sense of belonging
• Belonging as an element of well-being
• Elements of culture
• Positive Youth Development
• Role of Gender mapped to mothers
• Women's Perspectives on Belonging
• Friendships, relationships and community
  involvement
• Demands of current culture on mothers mapped to
  in their busy lives and in a semi-rural town

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1PO

• Introduction
• The Big So What Something to grab your readers
  to have them continue reading
• The focused so what narrow in on the aspect
  of this issue you will be examining
• Lit Review
• Define and operationalize terms
• Introduce theories
• Review history/evolution to lead you to current
  issue in current situation
• Significance this should be a review as you
  should have foreshadowed or addressed significant
  in the Intro
• Methods
• Explain methods and choice this should flow
  directly from your intr and lit review
• Data collection sampling how and why
• Analysis
• Foci themes, hypothesis, etc.
• Findings
• Discussion
• Implications and generalizabilty
• Limitations
• Next steps
• Including questions this research raised instead
  of answered

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Long Outline with references (LOL w/refs)

• Starting point 1PO
• Steps
• Add a FS below each heading
• Expand each heading to a outline of length up to
  one page
• Add refs, either as
• (Single and Single, 2003), or
• (Single and Single, 2003) the additional
  benefits of inter-organizational connections and
  the opportunities to be paired with impartial
  mentors
• Add to the left hand side (a) percentages done,
  (b) scheduled date of completion

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Diagnostic Outline (DOL)

• Starting point your LOL/refs
• Using the LOL, and not your memory, map the LOL
  back to a 1PO (more recommended) through a 3PO
  (less recommended)
• Review to make sure it is still organizationally
  sound
• This is a step to do throughout the prose phase,
  as well