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Helping Doctoral Candidates Finish Faster By E. Alana James, Ed.D. Professors Blog, 3 January, 2012 3. Go backwards another three weeks this is the length of time it usually takes for candidates to finish the small changes required by their defense. Put this in your calendar as your defense date. 4. Go backwards another three weeks this is the minimum length of time it takes a university to submit your work to all of the readers in preparation for defense. Prior to putting the state in your calendar talk with people at your University to see if in fact it might be much longer than that. But for now, put this date in your calendar as the day you need to be finished with your writing. 5. Go back four to six weeks this is usually the time between the first submission of collected and analyzed data written in the final chapters, and the complete rewrite that is often needed after the first submission. Put this date in your calendar as when you need to have your final chapters submitted in rough draft back from your advisor. 6. Go back two weeks this is the time it usually takes advisors to read a piece of work, adjust according to your knowledge if it should be longer than this. Put the state in your calendar as the day you need to have your rough draft of the entire dissertation finished. 7. Six weeks before this you need to have your data collected. 8. One month to six weeks before this you need to be beginning your data collection. 9. Prior to data collection you need to have your ethical review board approve your work. 10. Prior to ethical review you need to complete whatever proposal defense and agreements are required by your University Why do I lay this out in such detail? Because it is been our experience that most doctoral students are not properly prepared for the length of time End Game takes. Now that you have your calendar for the year laid out in detail, the next article moves on to help you face the dragons which keep you from finishing. Reference: Elmore, R. M. (1979). Backward mapping: Implementation research and plicy decisions. Political science quarterly, 94(4), 601-616.
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