How to Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months, Even if You Don't Know What to Write
By Scott Rank
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About this ebook
It is possible to finish your thesis in 6 months, even if you don’t know what to write or haven’t finished your research. In this short ebook, Scott Rank distills the principles that helped him go from crippling writer’s block to writing 500-1000 words a day.
In this book you will learn the following:
A simple daily habit that will help you start writing your dissertation
How to make it impossible not to write everyday
How to write even if all your research isn’t finished
How to get the most out of your advisor meetings
How to get your friends actively help you finish, even if they aren’t academics.
Scott Rank
Scott Rank is a Ph.D. in History. He graduated magna cum laude from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He has studied Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, and French but can still pull out a backwater Midwestern accent if need be. He also worked as a journalist in Istanbul for nearly a decade and reported on religion and human rights. He is a publisher, podcaster, adjunct, online instructor, and founder of Scholarpreneur, a website that helps academics take their knowledge to the open market. He is the author of the #1 best-seller “From Muhammed to Burj Khalifa: A Crash Course in 2,000 Years of Middle East History,” and “Off the Edge of the Map: Marco Polo, Captain Cook, and 9 Other Travelers and Explorers that Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World.”
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Main points are:
1. Don’t break the chain
1. Make it Impossible Not to Write Every Day (small goals, small steps, keep it consistent)
2. Write Even if You Don't Know Your Thesis Statement (write anything)
3. Get Your Friends To Help You Finish Your Dissertation(with punishment) - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is simple and ease to start writing everyday! Thank you for author motivating PhD students to write their research work at limited time period.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While the book was cute, it truly could've been summed up in an article. I kind of feel like I wasted time reading this when I could've been working on my dissertation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book! Great tips for finishing my dissertation! The steps are really simple. Sometimes that's all we need to get unstuck. Praise the Lord! Blessings!
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How to Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months, Even if You Don't Know What to Write - Scott Rank
How Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months or Less, Even if You Don't Know What to Write
By Scott Rank
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Table of Contents
Author's Note
How to Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months, Even if You Don't Know What to Write
About the Author
Connect With Scott
One Last Thing
Author's Note
This book is a very short guide to finishing your dissertation as quickly as possible. I used these principles to go from crippling writers' block to effortlessly produce 500-1000 words of dissertation text a day.
This book will only take you 10-15 minutes to read. If you are interested in a full-length treatment on thesis writing, I have two recommendations. The first is Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day,
by Joan Bolker. It came out in 1997 and some