Starting your Dissertation: Beginning a Career
Co-Sponsored by the Graduate School and University Libraries
Rescheduled to Monday, May 2, 2011
8:30 am – 3:00 pm
John C. Hodges Library Auditorium
Registration is closed.
Agenda
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome and Overview of the Workshop Schedule Linda Phillips, Interim Dean of University Libraries The Dissertation: A Scholarly Publication What is the significance of a dissertation in the academy? How does the dissertation help to launch one’s career? What choices can a dissertation author make? Carolyn R. Hodges, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Writing Your Dissertation: Critical, Compelling, Completed Mary Papke, English Department |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Publishing Your Dissertation: UT Requirements Kris Bronstad, UT Thesis/Dissertation Consultant Studio Services for Creating an Electronic Dissertation Michelle Brannen, Sr. IT Technologist, University Libraries, The Studio |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Box Lunch Hermitage Room, University Center Your Dissertation and Career Advancement Joy DeSensi, Associate Dean, Graduate School Terry Esper, Marketing & Logistics |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Overcoming Your Dissertation Anxieties Dan Magilow, Modern Foreign Languages (German) |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Break |
| 1:45: - 3:00 | Tools for Dissertation Research in Your Discipline Research Services Librarians Break Out Groups Led By Research Services Librarians - Specialized electronic resources for comprehensive research - Strategies for searching the library’s most powerful databases - Library resources for collecting and analyzing data - Managing research materials with EndNote/Zotero Door prize drawings for $25 gift certificates to the UT Bookstore will be held in the group meetings. Participants will be invited to complete evaluation forms of the entire program. |
