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Don't be defensive at your defense

aren't doing it alone

don't try circulating chapters of your dissertation to your committee members as you are writing them

discuss your research with your friends and colleagues

attend one or more defenses prior to yours

a dissertation defense

the last chapter should be the first chapter

Read and reread this section until you are sure that you have made suggestions that emanate from your experiences

make sure you really present conclusions and implications

Use the Table of Contents to help you improve your manuscript

Review two or three well organized and presented dissertations

Dissertation writing should be clear and unambiguous

use hand drawing for elaborate tables and graphs for the early draft of your dissertation

Print each draft of your dissertation on a different color paper

write your dissertation using the real names

change sections from the proposal to sections for the dissertation

begin writing those parts of the dissertation that you are most comfortable

advisory committee can be most helpful to you