This book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The author demystifies the process and provides you with essential guidance through the rites of passage that are an integral part of completing your degree.

Includes bibliographical references (page 137).

Doctoral degree facts of life-the beginning -- Researching your committee-reallycritical research project -- Selecting a dissertation topic -- Spending money and using the 20th cetury to your advantage -- Designing your dissertation and preparing the prospectus and proposal -- Writing the dissertation-twenty workdays to go! -- Defending the dissertation-two hours to doctor! -- Celebrating, the last revision postpartum depression