This document provides 10 tips for getting through a dissertation: 1. Find inspiration everywhere. 2. Let go of bad ideas and only keep good ideas. 3. There are no shortcuts, you must read everything. 4. Use time management tools like Gantt charts to stay organized. 5. Don't fear statistics, learn how to use them properly. 6. Learn academic writing styles and tools to write clearly. 7. Develop a growth mindset and grit to push through challenges. 8. Start organizing and managing your documents early. 9. Develop a personal learning network on Twitter and other sites. 10. Ensure your research questions drive your work and innovation.

1. Angina Monologues
Ten Essential Tips to Get Through Your Dissertation

2. You were expecting this,maybe?

3. WhatI wish
they had told us…

4. HELLO
Dr. Sara Stetson
HELLO
My Name Is
@GoodCognitions
www.sstetson.wordpress.com
Dr. Sara Stetson

5. #1
INSPIRATION
everywhere
#2
LET GO
bad ideas
#3
NO
shortcuts
#4
TIME
management
#5
DON’T FEAR
statistics
#6
LEARN ACADEMIC
writing
#7
GROWTH
mindset
#8
ORGANIZE
early
#9
DEVELOP PERSONAL
learning networks
#10
THE QUESTION
is the answer
?

6. Day 1

7. 50% of us would be gone?

8. Don’t worry!

9. Breathe

10. Inspiration
can be found
anywhere

12. Ok, well

13. ideas
can be found in…

14. click
small places

15. Look Around

16. 4…7..2,3 …Fibonacci..Pi…
Young brains neededfor math experiments

17. Let goof
bad ideas!

18. bad idea

19. good idea
AAAAH

20. Youwill be tempted…

21. To hold onto pet projects

22. Listen!

23. Some ideas
are just turkeys

24. what

25. 30 seconds
idea
elevatorpitch

26. Topic
Problem
Gap
Context

27. Harvard Business School
elevator pitch app

28. There is noshortcut

29. Easy weight loss!

30. You have to read everything

31. You need a Wiki

32. click
Go to
Wikispaces

33. Use timemanagement
tools

34. big whale
don’t try this

35. Feeling under water?

36. You need a Gantt chart…

37. Creately software
click

38. Don’tbe
afraid
of statistics

39. 2 + 2 = 4 + 17 = 21…

40. Seriously, calm down…

41. I know a website…

42. click
How2stats.net

43. Learnacademic
writing

45. Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise
than what it might appear to others that what
you were or might have been was not otherwise
than what you had been would have appeared
to them to be otherwise.
I think I should understand that better, Alice
said very politely, If I had written it down, but I
can’t quite follow it as you say it.
--Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

46. what I really mean is…

47. A sentence should contain no unnecessary
words, for the same reason that a drawing
should have no unnecessary lines and a
machine no unnecessary parts.
-William Strunk The Elements of Style

48. Stylewriter software will help you avoid

49. bombastic, loquacious, prolix, redundant, voluble, pleonastic
wordiness
Wordy prose

50. The software applications that were reviewed for my work were
demonstrated by the companies, tested for their functionality, and
Stylewriter was chosen.
I tested writing software and chose Stylewriter.
wordiness
Passive verbs

51. wordinessGlue
At this point in time I am recommending Stylewriter due to the fact that it was
really helpful during the period of time when I was writing my dissertation
because
wrote
I recommend Stylewriter.

53. click
Stylewriter
Grammarlyclick

54. Growthmindset

55. Your own
drummer

56. You cangrow your brain

57. Just like your muscles

58. What does it take?

59. Charm?

60. Sex appeal?

61. Special brains?

62. Extra brains?

63. Excitement?

64. A lab?

65. you need

66. Grit is the tendency to sustain interest in
and effort toward very long term goals.
-Angela Duckworth

67. 2,774 experiments

68. Duckworth says Grit
is a non-cognitive
process
amygdala
frontal cortex

69. true!

70. This is Descartes' error: the abyssal separation
between body and mind...the suggestion that
reasoning, and moral judgment, and the suffering
that comes from physical pain or emotional
upheaval might exist separately from the
body. Specifically: the separation of the most
refined operations of mind from the structure
and operation of a biological organism.
[pp 249-50] -----Antonio Damasio Descartes’ Error

71. Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
DRIVE

72. FIXED GROWTH
Challenge= Avoid Challenge = Embrace
Obstacles= Giving up Obstacles= Trying harder
Effort= Fruitless Effort= Improvement
Criticism= Giving up Criticism= Feedback
YET

74. click
Take the grit test
©GoodCognitions

75. Organizeand
start early

76. Wake up!

77. Research is messy

78. Why is she so happy?

79. How to save everything?

80. You need document management

81. Zotero
Mendeley
vs.

82. Zotero has a book scanner

83. Collect and curate

84. Use Diigo

85. annotate
highlight

86. click
Compare
Zotero
Mendeley

87. Develop personallearning networks

88. Early 20th century peer review

89. They will lift you up

90. before after

91. I’m the short one Dr. Christine Dr. Jill Dr. Ann
When your teammates
pack your chute, you
better trust them

93. truefalse
click
The Ultimate
Twitter Guide

94. The Questionis the answer

95. Don’t be a mindreader:
Make no assumptions

96. Valuethe questionfirst

98. What is curiosity?

99. Questioning:

100. Questioning:
Neuroplasticity
Metacognition
Reward Systems
Memory
(Jepma et al, 2012; Kang et al., 2009)

101. Why did the
chicken cross
the road?
What if
everyone
jumped at
once?
Is the five-
second rule
true?
Will we ever
run out of
music?
Is your
orange the
same as my
orange?
Questions from Vsauce creator Michael Stevens

102. Other expert
question
askers…

103. Thequestion
drives innovation
discovery
the method

104. 4 yr. old questions
Middle School
Questions
Numberperday

105. …A beautiful question shifts the way we think
about something and often sets in motion a
process that can result in change. Entrepreneurs–
or at least the successful ones- do a great job
asking beautiful questions…their whole reason
for being is to disrupt, innovate, solve a problem
no one else is solving
--Warren Berger A More Beautiful Question

106. click
Vsauce:
Best question
askers ever

107. Describe
Compare
Predict

108. Tell a story
Build a theory
This place, this time…

109. click
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger

110. The Questionis the answer
It’s
a wrap
A fewlast words…

112. Hang in there

113. Read text known for clear language
Literature review first: No shortcuts
Creately to make Gantt charts and maps
Stylewriter for clear language
Grammarly: Check grammar & plagiarism
Take the Grit test
Diigo bookmarking for multimedia resources
Document management: Zotero or Mendeley
PLN: Twitter and other networks
Statistics help: How2stats.net
Ask beautiful questions! ?

114. Read clear language
Gantt charts and maps
Write clear language:
Take the Grit test
Bookmarking for multimedia resources
Document management:
PLN: Twitter network guide
Statistics help:
Ask beautiful questions!
Newyorker.com
Scientificamerican.com
How2stats.net
Stylewriter-usa.com
Grammarly.com
Creately.com
angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/
Mendeley.com
amorebeautifulquestion.com/
Vsause.com/
Rightquestion.org
Diigo.com
edudemic.com/guides/guide-to-twitter/
https://kopywritingkourse.com/elevator-pitch/Plan your elevator pitch

115. HELLO
Dr. Sara Stetson
GOODBYE
My Name Is
@GoodCognitions
www.sstetson.wordpress.com
Dr. Sara Stetson