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Direct linkKamler, Barbara; Thomson, Pat – Educational Researcher, 2008
Anxious doctoral researchers can now call on a proliferation of advice books telling them how to produce their dissertations. This article analyzes some characteristics of this self-help genre, including the ways it produces an expert-novice relationship with readers, reduces dissertation writing to a series of linear steps, reveals hidden rules,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Books, Self Help Programs, Writing Processes
