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Time Saving
Tips and Tricks to Help
Doctoral Students Finish Faster

2. Time Saving
Tips and Tricks to Help
Doctoral Students Finish Faster
You
Wouldn’t
Travel
without
a Map
You Would
Stop And
Ask
Directions
Frequently
You Would
Strategically
Manage
Your Time to
Get There
Follow Your Map
Strategically Plan
Commit Yourself,
Your Time, Your
Money
You Would
Strategically
Manage
Your Time to
Get There

3. So Where Do You Get
This Map To
Follow?
From Your
University
Guidelines
From Your
Style Manual
APA?
Harvard?
From Model
Dissertations
You Have
Found
From
Books

4. Theses are a lot of Work!
Need for
Strategic
Planning

5. Commit to
Your Route
and Follow
Your Map
Plot Your Time and Money, Get the Help You Need!

6. Time
Management
http://www.slideshare.net/egarbugli/26-time-management-
hacks-i-wish-id-known-at-20

7. Time
Management
Use Your Tools
Efficiently
Make Each Tool
Do Multiple
TasksDragon Helps Me
Think + It Gives
me a much better
first draft
MSWord:
Navigation Pane
Organizes the Full
Writing through
Headings +
Publishes TOC Etc
easily
Bibliographic
Software
Can Help You
Organize Your
Thoughts + Builds
References easily
Evernote
Captures all the
web content +
helps me
organize it

8. Time
Management
Hang out
With Other
Doc Students
Work in
Groups
LinkedIn Groups
Writing
Groups
Isolation Kills
Motivation –
people need
groups at diff
times 4 diff
reasons

9. Upcoming News/Events
Monthly Content in Control Panel for
Paying Members is great this month:
1. Video: The difference between
normal and outstanding theses
2. 3 Infographics on Methods – Tips
and Tricks for each
Upcoming Conferences: