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Preparing your DDO

Preparing your DDO. November 11, 2010. Helpful Hints from the Graduate Committee. Start working on it while prepping for your DQE You are writing the DDO for a departmental committee, not for your director or faculty in your area Different directors have different expectations

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Preparing your DDO

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  1. Preparing your DDO November 11, 2010

  2. Helpful Hints from the Graduate Committee • Start working on it while prepping for your DQE • You are writing the DDO for a departmental committee, not for your director or faculty in your area • Different directors have different expectations • Work closely with your director on the document • Look at sample DDO’s from your area

  3. Helpful Hints from the Graduate Committee • Draft, draft, draft! You will rewrite this thing a number of times. • After your second draft with your director, run it past your hoped-for board members for their input (with your directors permission). Incorporate their comments into the next draft. This also helps them get an idea if your project is one in which they would be interested. • Do not take months after your DQE to get this done!!! One month tops!

  4. What is the Graduate Committee Looking For? • Thesis/statement of problem more than a conclusion • Good structure: do the components of your argument support your thesis? • Is it too broad? Is it accomplishable within the confines of a dissertation? • Sufficient context to understand your thesis/problem

  5. What is the Graduate Committee Looking For? • Consistent font, format • Single space document, double space between paragraphs and in bibliography (the Committee members are up there in age). • Page numbers • Bibliography • Put title at top of DDO even if you fill out the form • PROOFREAD!!!!! (Also have someone else proof it)

  6. Selecting Your Board • Work closely with your director • Be prudent • Be able to make an argument for board membership based on the focus of your dissertation • Propose four board members and three alternate

  7. Selecting Your Board • External Board Members: • The Department now encourages students to include non-MU faculty • But of course, we have no money to bring them in • You should not pay for their travel (potential conflict of interest) • External members can participate in defenses via video-conferencing

  8. The Doctoral Dissertation Outline Form • On Graduate School website. Click here. • This form is NOT the “Dissertation Approval Form” – that LOOKS like the DDO Form but is signed AFTER YOU HAVE DEFENDED! • Complete “Student Information” section • DO NOT COMPLETE first “Committee Information” section • Under second “Committee Information” section: • Complete: “Planned completion date…” • Sign your name and date it • Complete “Student Information” section. Feel free to type “see attached” in boxes B-F. Make sure you address each of those questions in an obvious way in your DDO.

  9. After Grad Committee Approval • The Grad Committee may (probably will) require revisions, some minor, some major. • Revise and resubmit. • AFTER your board is approved by the Graduate Committee, the names of the board members will be added to the form.

  10. After Grad Committee Approval • Your director is required to convene a meeting of you and your board within six weeks of Grad Committee approval of your DDO, for you to meet with your board and discuss any revisions. • The students should not schedule these meetings; it is the director’s responsibility. You will want to make sure that they do this, however. • At this meeting, or after you have made recommended revisions, the board members sign the DDO Form. • The form is then returned to Gale Prusinski who forwards it to the Graduate School. • AT THAT POINT, YOUR DDO IS OFFICIALLY APPROVED.

  11. Next… • START WRITING • KEEP WRITING • MEET WITH OTHER DISSERTATORS • MEET WITH YOUR DIRECTOR • KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR DIRECTOR. DON’T DISAPPEAR • KEEP WRITING • DRAFT, REVISE, REWRITE, REPEAT • DEFEND….

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