The beginning of both the semester and academic year inspires us to consider fresh opportunities and revisit options with a new frame of mind. At the Doctoral Support Center (DSC), we acknowledge this season by continuing to assess our practice through the current literature, our own research and our professional experience. Our goal is to create services that assist you toward successfully completing your degree. As writing advisers who earned doctoral degrees, ourselves, we are participant practitioners. This means our expert knowledge, derived from lived experience in tandem with gathering our own research from the population we serve and staying current with the recent literature on doctoral education, is put into action on your behalf.
We encourage you to take advantage of unique services crafted to assist your academic journey. The DSC provides one-on-one feedback on your writing drafts for courses or chapters of your dissertation. This way, we can teach you how to critically review the literature and write a cogent literature review or simply provide a space for you to express the inherent anxiety that we feel as graduate students; just email, call, or stop by our center. This academic year, we continue to offer workshops on a range of topics, from how to improve your academic scholarly writing and how to reference according to the American Psychological Association’s style, to advice on how to navigate the dissertation process and how to balance school, work and life, to name a few of the topics listed in this Student Update. If you cannot get to campus to attend a workshop, you can participate on-line through our live webcast. In addition, our workshops are recorded and made available through our DSC blackboard site.
Some of us need assistance in staying on a time line or need an external source such as our peers to hold us accountable to complete a task. With this need in mind, we have developed dissertation writing groups that meet on a regular basis to provide such a writing structure. The orientation for the Fall 2009 dissertation writing group will be held on Saturday, September 19 from 12:30 to 5:00 PM in Waite Phillips Hall Room 403. If you have any questions regarding the dissertation writing groups just email Dr. Fischer at lfischer@usc.edu.
If you need to reinvigorate your writing by carving out a few days from your hectic schedule to get the writing done then please join us for our dissertation writing retreat, known as Operation Dissertation Acceleration (ODA). This retreat sequesters you for four days to conceptualize and write your dissertation. Past ODAers have written from 80% of a chapter to close to 90% of three chapters in course of this retreat. ODA will be offered this Fall from Thursday, October 15th to Sunday, October 18th at Villa Graziadio Executive Center in Malibu, California. If you are interested in an application for the dissertation retreat or have any questions just email ijimenez@usc.edu.
The main point of this communiqué is to let you know that you have made an incredibly smart decision to pursue a Rossier doctoral degree because of the support services available for you to seek and take advantage. The DSC is here for you so please email rsoedsc@usc.edu , or call 213.740.8099, or stop Waite Phillips Hall Room 402, we look forward to assisting you.
With you,
Ilda Jimenez y West, Ph.D.
We encourage you to take advantage of unique services crafted to assist your academic journey. The DSC provides one-on-one feedback on your writing drafts for courses or chapters of your dissertation. This way, we can teach you how to critically review the literature and write a cogent literature review or simply provide a space for you to express the inherent anxiety that we feel as graduate students; just email, call, or stop by our center. This academic year, we continue to offer workshops on a range of topics, from how to improve your academic scholarly writing and how to reference according to the American Psychological Association’s style, to advice on how to navigate the dissertation process and how to balance school, work and life, to name a few of the topics listed in this Student Update. If you cannot get to campus to attend a workshop, you can participate on-line through our live webcast. In addition, our workshops are recorded and made available through our DSC blackboard site.
Some of us need assistance in staying on a time line or need an external source such as our peers to hold us accountable to complete a task. With this need in mind, we have developed dissertation writing groups that meet on a regular basis to provide such a writing structure. The orientation for the Fall 2009 dissertation writing group will be held on Saturday, September 19 from 12:30 to 5:00 PM in Waite Phillips Hall Room 403. If you have any questions regarding the dissertation writing groups just email Dr. Fischer at lfischer@usc.edu.
If you need to reinvigorate your writing by carving out a few days from your hectic schedule to get the writing done then please join us for our dissertation writing retreat, known as Operation Dissertation Acceleration (ODA). This retreat sequesters you for four days to conceptualize and write your dissertation. Past ODAers have written from 80% of a chapter to close to 90% of three chapters in course of this retreat. ODA will be offered this Fall from Thursday, October 15th to Sunday, October 18th at Villa Graziadio Executive Center in Malibu, California. If you are interested in an application for the dissertation retreat or have any questions just email ijimenez@usc.edu.
The main point of this communiqué is to let you know that you have made an incredibly smart decision to pursue a Rossier doctoral degree because of the support services available for you to seek and take advantage. The DSC is here for you so please email rsoedsc@usc.edu , or call 213.740.8099, or stop Waite Phillips Hall Room 402, we look forward to assisting you.
With you,
Ilda Jimenez y West, Ph.D.
