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Best Practices For Your Doctoral Committee Meeting for PhD Thesis

Scheduling a proposal meeting involves (1) Finding a date and time acceptable to all committee members, (2) Selecting an appropriate and convenient location for the meeting , and (3) reserving the meeting room. To ensure that committee members have adequate time to review your proposal before the meeting, it is preferable that they receive a final draft at least two weeks prior to the meeting. This draft should incorporate all of their ideas and recommendations for change. It should also be a high quality document-clean, accurate and complete. read...

How to make the most of your thesis committee meetings?

During the course of your PhD, you would be required to attend committee meetings, typically consisting of members from your department which you have chosen yourself. These meetings are of great importance because you can exchange advice, suggestions, feedback with your committee members. You can also discuss any potential implication of your research with your committee members. But many students hesitate to fully communicate with their committee either due to the fear of being caught silly or intruding into the busy schedule of their committee. Regardless of any such feeling, every PhD candidate must communicate with their committee members to get on the right track to PhD success. Unlike committee, the hesitation and fear won’t pave the way for him to research better and write thesis sooner. Therefore, below are a few tips on how to make the most of your thesis committee meetings. read...

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