Dissertation and Thesis Writing Resources

Information on learned societies for new academics, and also a good resource for grant, fellowship and research opportunities.

Association for the support of Graduate Students

This is a chapter on scholarly communication from Hacking the Academy, a book “crowdsourced” in one week by contributors from around the world. It touches on many emerging issues in the field of scholarly publishing, and asks some hard questions about the changing nature of published research. See especially Tanya Roth's piece on "Hacking the Dissertation Process"

National Organization for Graduate-Professional Students

A discussion and support forum for those who are trying to finish a dissertation. Answers provided by those who have PHinishD their dissertation (get it?).

A blog post from Anastasia Salter on rethinking the dissertation