Dissertation Details
CategoryDissertation.
TopicNsf doctoral dissertation improvement grant linguistics.
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PostedTue, Jan 05th 2021 06:53 AM
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Firstly think about your time availability. Realistically how much time do you have available to you for the completion of this dissertation? An academic term can seem like a lifetime but in reality it is probably about 12 weeks. There are 168 hours in a week. Take away the time you need for sleeping, eating and other elements of daily living and see what time you have left. It will probably be between 6 and 8 hours. Now think about the other demands on your time. You may find that you have other assignments to complete for your other modules, other lectures to attend and seminars to participate in. With a dissertation you cannot simply decide to priorities by deadline.
Can this dissertation topic be solved? Is the topic too broad and would be hard to study? You do not want to begin your research and discover that it would take a ten years or even more to investigate the dissertation topic. During this time, another person could pick out this same topic or resolve the issue using completely different procedures. Also, do the research to discover if this problem can even be settled. How terrible would it be if you spent many months or even years on investigation to find out that the matter was never solvable to begin with?