Services

 

 

Coaching and Counseling:

Working on a thesis or dissertation can be a lonely, isolated sort of process. When what you need is help with the process, check-in accountability, and help with some of the emotional issues that come up in the process of doing thesis and dissertation work, then coaching can be just what you need. This service helps you make steady, observable progress toward your goal in a regularly scheduled way. 

Coaching

  • Identifies your needs and priorities for life balance and thesis or dissertation work

  • Creates a strategy for moving forward

  • Identifies blocks and hindrances

  • Helps you figure out effective ways to move past blocks, change unhelpful habits, and decrease the drag of hindrances

  • Provides regular contact for support, sounding board, encouragement, and accountability

  • Focuses on implementation of strategies that work for you, and are flexible enough to take the unexpected into account

  • Makes sure that your goal of completed degree is accomplished on your timeline, in a way that feels good to you

Counseling

  • Provides advice and recommendations to help you know yourself more clearly

  • Identifies debilitating attitudes, thinking structures, and behavior patterns, then gives tools to change these

  • Assists with creating effective strategies for handling and responding to communications with and from your faculty chair, your committee members, and conflicts within the committee

  • Helps you make sense of recommendations for voice and style required for writing the dissertation, so you can incorporate them in ways that work for you, the writer

 

Substantive and/or Developmental Editing for theses and dissertations:


When you need someone to come on board with you, understand what your project is and how you want to go about it. If you have writing difficulties, learning disabilities, or mental blocks that interfere with academic writing, it’s likely you would need both some substantive and some developmental editing. 

Most people who want this sort of service also need some coaching and counseling services as part of what we do together.

 

Substantive editing

  • Begins with document you have already created and submitted for feedback

  • Identifies problems for you and makes recommendations for solving issues of overall clarity or consistency

  • Clarifies the point or emphasis needed for each chapter

  • Reorganizes paragraphs, sections, sometimes even chapters to improve the order in which the text is presented

  • Writes or rewrites small segments of text to improve readability and flow of information (in consultation with the client)

  • Revises aspects of the text to improve its presentation (in consultation with the client)

  • Assists with incorporating responses to queries and suggestions from faculty advisor or committee

Developmental editing

Involves all of above services plus

  • Begins with your idea or concept, working with you to develop your manuscript(s) from initial concept, outline or draft or combination of the 3 through any number of subsequent drafts

  • Helping clarify research question(s)

  • Helping clarify intent and purpose for study

  • Suggestions and questions about research methodology, as appropriate or needed

  • Making suggestions about organization and presentation

  • Co-creation of new drafts of document in ways that make sure you are still the author of your work. This is not the same as ghostwriting. 

  • Works with you until thesis or dissertation is complete and off to the printer for final copies

 

Consultation

When what you need is someone to listen to you, help you explore and understand, and perhaps to feed observations back to you. A consultation will help you understand where and how you are stuck and how to move forward from that place. These are typically individually scheduled sessions, not more than 4 hours in length. 

When all you need is one set time with someone who can hear, understand, and offer concrete, specific assistance for a single issue, or a couple of related ones. You might or might not need other sessions.

  • Provides you with a skilled and attentive listener

  • Provides a sounding board, with feedback when needed

  • Solves a specific issue, or perhaps 2 or 3 related ones in a single session

  • Moves you through or past a specific stuck place

  • Clarifies concept or question or methodology; perhaps all 3 if they are related to the issue at hand

  • Can provide information to streamline process of dissertation and comps

 

Workshops

Dealing with blocks: What they can mean, how to respond and keep moving forward

One structure does not fit all: How to find, create, or adapt one that works for you 

Other workshops under construction, and workshops that can be created to match client’s needs

 

Descriptions on editing modified from www.meyergay.com, cited as being from Freelance Editorial Association Yellow Pages, 1993-1994.

 

 

PLEASE NOTE: I will never, in any way ghost-write or in any other way compromise the ethics of accepted and approved doctoral work. I will help you to accomplish your work, but I will never do it for you.

PLEASE NOTE: My services do not include doing general research on your topic, to help smooth and streamline your research process. I assume that you are able to handle this work yourself, or hire other grad students for this, within your school’s guidelines of acceptable hired assistance.

PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR FACULTY CHAIR, ADVISORS, or COMMITTEE MEMBER(S). I will work with you to incorporate and/or respond to feedback and recommendations from your committee. YOUR COMMITTEE OR ADVISOR IS THE ULTIMATE EVALUATOR OF YOUR MATERIALS. My job and commitment to you is to make sure you meet standards and qualifications necessary for successful completion of your degree.

 

 

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