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This is a small guide to address what should be the schedule Management of your Dissertation project to provide you a good sense of direction of how to go about it, and to help you coordinate, prepare, and track your project. Although several students come up with a simple study issue to answer in their Research project, several others arrive at this stage with many suggestions but with no particular research problem (Koskenoja, 2019). This can trigger fear, and even panic, despite the need to get going quickly. It is a general condition to be in though. Several ways forward are available: What topics other students have in their minds? Does this create any interest? Discuss your ideas with others before you formulate a question by yourself. This may help you to filter your attention. Learn More: https://bit.ly/3fFh61N Contact Us: UK NO: +44-1143520021 India No: +91-8754446690 Email: [email protected]TRANSCRIPT
An Academic presentation byDr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, PhdassistanceGroup www.phdassistance.comEmail: [email protected]
HOW TO MANAGE YOURPROJECT SCHEDULE WHILEPURSING DISSERTATION
In Brief
Topic Selection
Finding Research Question
Creating a Plan for your Research
Data Collection
Pilot Studies
Research Report
Conclusion
Outline
TODAY'S DISCUSSION
This is a small guide to address what should be theschedule Management of your Dissertation project toprovide you a good sense of direction of how to go
about it, and to help you coordinate, prepare, and trackyour project.
In Brief
Although several students come up with a simple study issueto answer in their Research project, several others arrive atthis stage with many suggestions but with no particularresearch problem.
What topics other students have in their minds? Discussyour ideas with others before you formulate a question byyourself.
Spend some time in the library, go through the titles ofacademic articles in your subject that are prevailing for morethan 5 years, and review the most fascinating abstracts.
TopicSelection
Contd..
Look at previous students' theses in your department: the subjectscan encourage you, and they may contain helpful ideas foradvanced research.
What subject did you consider most fascinating and is there anitem that can be considered for research project?
The matter you should be investigating;
Your logic or paper;
Research limitations
When your team has approved your subject, you need to startthe cycle of improving the subject and transforming it intosomething that's centered enough to lead your project. Seek to explain it as a research question, which sets out:
FindingResearchQuestion
A dissertation is an ongoing undertaking that challenges youto plan your resources and carry on a number of activities.
It is important that you build a schedule that lets you devoteadequate time to each assignment you have to do.
It is useful to find how many weeks you have before yousubmit your finished Dissertation and construct a chart thatdisplays these weeks.
Block the weeks when you can not work, then label some bigobligations you have that will take time over that span.
Creatinga Planfor yourResearch
Schedule forYour Research
Efficiently store the data while collecting it;
Recover the data fast and effectively;
Review and interpret the collected data;
Build suitable outputs for your paper, e.g. tables anddiagrams, where necessary.
The Data Collection process seems like the most criticalaspect of your research projects.
You can follow a system which would enable you to:
DataCollection
Schedule for YourResearch
A pilot research includes, using the intendedtechniques, tentative data collection but with avery limited sample.
It helps to check the Methodology and recognizeany Information that need to be clarified beforegoing forward with the key data set.
PilotStudies
You need to define a date in your study schedule when youshould end the analysis and start writing.
Take a break. However, after getting back to the project, take acasual glance at what you have achieved already and askyourself: ‘Do I need further research?’
Consult with your supervisor about the progress you made.Question him whether you need additional data.
Note that your Dissertation will not let you to achieve everything.
ResearchReport
So there are ways to manage the schedule of yourdissertation project.
The key areas of doing that are finding Research Topic andappropriate question.
Then you should devise a proper plan for your researchwhich will include data collection, pilot studies and finallymaking the report.
You may also do a Literature Review, which is a study ofpreviously published content.
Conclusion
