Steve Tippins explains how to use Chapter 5 to head off committee questions before your defense. Committee members focus on format, methodology, and content. Anticipate their concerns and answer them in Chapter 5 to reduce surprises and gain goodwill during the oral defense.
You want to, when you're writing Chapter 5, think ahead to your defense as well. Think about this. It's been a year or so you've been working with your committee, and your committee members has given you comments all along about, oh, one committee member might be interested in format, another committee might be more methodologically interested, and other committee members might be content interested. Well, in your Chapter 5, if you can answer questions that they've asked on the ongoing basis or answer questions that you think think they're going to ask about what you've done, then you're not going to get those questions during the defense. They've already seen that you've done it. And the more you can stop questions from happening on a defense, the more they're on your side and the easier your defense goes. Drop the word "help" in the comments, and I'll send you the link to my free dissertation help community. Help me.
