Tips for Doctoral Students

[Matthew Heins]

Dear Cornerstone members,

This has nothing to do with architecture, but for those of you who are doctoral students (a significant chunk of Cornerstone's membership), the links to advice below may be of interest. I haven't actually checked them out so I can't vouch for them, but they look well intentioned and potentially very helpful. As you can see, the email was originally sent by Alvaro Huerta (an urban planning professor at Cal Poly Pomona) to the "Bowling League," which is a Google Group for urban planning scholars, so full credit to him for assembling and publicizing these.

- Matthew

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From: Alvaro Huerta <alvaro...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Tips for Doctoral Students/Candidates & Beyond: Compiled by Dr. Álvaro Huerta
To: Phd-Bowling-League <Phd-Bowli...@googlegroups.com>

Dear All:

Tips for Doctoral Students/Candidates & Beyond

 

At the end of the day, all doctoral students/candidates must learn a key lesson that many of us learned at UC Berkeley: "The best dissertation is a done dissertation!"

 

More specifically, here go some helpful sources…

 

Dissertation Proposal Resources (Nuts and Bolts, Style, etc.): UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies by Dr. Michael Watts

http://iis.berkeley.edu/node/424

 

“The Holy Grail: In Pursuit of the Dissertation Proposal” by Dr. Michael Watts

http://iis.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/inpursuitofphd.pdf

 

“Roadblocks, detours, dead-ends and thoroughfares: Creating a road map to navigate through the research methodology labyrinth” by Dr. Jo Luck 

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.214.6628&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

“Combat in the Dissertation Zone” by Dr. Michael Burawoy

http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Biography/Combat.pdf

 

Completing Your Dissertation without Tears / Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center

https://www.albany.edu/ceasweb/dissertation.pdf

 

Resources for Dissertators and Thesis Writers / Compiled by Elizabeth Coughlin, Associate Director, UCWbL, DePaul University

https://offices.depaul.edu/student-affairs/events/departmental-events/Documents/Coughlin_UCWbL_Litrature.pdf

 

“Notes on Writing for Cornell Masters Students:On Craft, Structure, and Your Readers”
Dr. John Forester (Draft 2, July 25, 2005)

https://sites.google.com/site/writingmatterssite/Home/earlier-notes-for-masters-students

 

“Notes on the Craft of Academic Writing” by Dr. John Forester (February 18, 2009)
https://sites.google.com/site/writingmatterssite/Home/workshop-notes-for-phd-students

 

Writing Down the Bones:Freeing the Writer Withinby Natalie Goldberg

https://nataliegoldberg.com/books/writing-down-the-bones/

 

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 

by Anne Lamott

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/97395/bird-by-bird-by-anne-lamott/

 

More excellent sources on research and writing can be found here, where I need to update:

https://sites.google.com/site/alvarohuertasite/recommended-books

https://sites.google.com/site/alvarohuertasite/links-academic-more

 

Cordially,

Alvaro 

P.S. Speaking of higher education, check out my tribute from last year for the late and great, Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones…

https://alvarohuerta6.medium.com/in-memory-of-the-legendary-dr-juan-gómez-quiñones-afeb4bc24cc8

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Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D. | Associate Professor 

Academic Senate Member | Senior Society of Ford Fellows

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

URP | EWS / Faculty | Wiki | CV | Media | Web | Diss. | Article 

Book: Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities… (paper / ebook)

Talk (2021): “Life & Career as a Chicano Scholar Activist”

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