
Dissertation topic – perspectives and questions to consider
In my experience as an academic advisor and a dissertation coach, I have come across a great variety of ways in which learners are approaching the choice of the dissertation topic. There is a relatively small group of those who have the clarity of knowing “exactly” what they want to do. On the other side of the spectrum are those who know there is a dissertation and not much more. Some of them start with the blissful feeling that there is a lot of time to “figure it out” and there are still others who are gripped with anxiety demanding to know if there is a magic number of “pages” they need to produce to satisfy this requirement… The rather common approach is to start with one idea and then change it or come up with several and eventually distill this into the final topic.
There is a legitimacy to all of the above. READ MORE


