Steve Tippins Ph.D. tells dissertation writers to study their program's rubric before drafting. Misplacing limitations, assumptions, and scope in the wrong chapters forces committee revisions and delays. Matching your structure to the rubric from the start cuts review cycles and saves months.
If you're not putting limitations in chapter one, then maybe assumptions and scope and limitations are in chapter three. It's a good idea to understand what your rubric is so you put things in the right place. I've seen too many times where they get comments from committee members saying yeah this is interesting but move it to chapter two, that's where it belongs. You're just going to save time because every time you submit something for review it can take a week, two weeks, three weeks or longer just for the turnaround. And if the only thing they're looking for is to you to move things to a different place, you've just wasted a considerable amount of time. Possibly. If you want help with your dissertation outline, join our free Dissertation Help community. You'll get our five step Dissertation Acceptance framework, real support from veteran dissertation committee members, access to our free community, and a free one on one call to help you finish faster. I'll see you inside.
