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Mining Dissertations for Writing Your Own In-Person
This workshop provides a clear path to improving your dissertation by teaching one of the most overlooked skills in academic writing: learning from other dissertations. We will discover how to find the strongest dissertations in your field using research databases, then practice reading them strategically—not only for research content and citations, but for understanding how successful writers structure arguments, develop their voice, and guide readers through complex ideas.
Participants will leave with concrete writing examples and a systematic method for mining dissertations throughout the writing process.
Learning Objectives:
- Use ProQuest and Emory databases to locate exemplary dissertations and mine their citations for research sources
- Analyze how successful dissertations actually work—their voice, structure, transitions, and rhetorical moves—to build concrete writing examples you can use
- Develop a personal system for incorporating both research insights and writing strategies into your own dissertation
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Jadon Adams
Russ Peterson