Are you a PhD or doctoral student? This bibliography has direct links to tools that help with the following: Getting Started 1. Plotting the doctoral journey – what is needed when 2. How to prepare for the end journey at the beginning 2. Progress Your Academic Writing 3. Improve Your Critical Thinking 4. Continual Development of Your Research 5. Have Data? Winning at the END GAME! 6. Work-Life Balance & Continuous Support

1. DoctoralNet tools as aids for
the full Graduate Journey

2. Special NOTE:
• These slides are designed as a bibliography of the tools
available to doctoral students, powered by DoctoralNet
• These slides include the urls needed to find the tools
mentioned…
HOWEVER
• You must sign into the portal for your university (or main. If your
university does not have a subscription)
• Then add the end of the url for the tool you want after .com
• All additional urls start with /

3. Goal – to make PhD and Professional
Doctoral work easier
We never know what we don’t know –
we uncover it slowly – and sometimes
painfully
Goal for today, to use the experience of
those before you, so…
• That you know of and can easily find
the tools you need when you realize
you need them

4. Agenda: Bibliography of Tools
1. Getting Started
1. Plotting the doctoral journey – what is needed when
2. How to prepare for the end journey at the beginning
2. Progress Your Academic Writing
3. Improve Your Critical Thinking
4. Continual Development of Your Research
5. Have Data? Winning at the END GAME!
6. Work-Life Balance & Continuous Support

5. What makes the difference between
Masters & Undergrad?

6. What makes the difference between
Undergrad Masters & Doctoral levels?
• The ability to think critically…
• To read and comprehend
• To dissect and analyse
• To build arguments and critically look at the arguments of others
• The ability to write from that viewpoint…
• Knowledge of, and skill in, academic writing
• To develop your own ideas through writing
• To build arguments based on your analysis and built on the foundation of previous
literature
• Your own research
• Ability to build an argument
• Ability to design and execute research
• Advanced expertise in one area of your field
• Ability to defend your ideas in front of your peers

7. Getting Started
Tools to prepare you for the end journey

8. No matter where you are now…
Check out Phase 1: Steps | 1.1 Getting mentally ready
/phase-1/1-1-getting-mentally-ready.html
1.1.1 Understanding the Dissertation/Thesis Process
/phase-1/1-1-getting-mentally-ready/understanding-of-the-phd-dissertation-thesis-process.html
1.1.2 Examples Downloaded and Analyzed
/phase-1/1-1-getting-mentally-ready/find-examples-of-dissertations-theses-to-download.html
On Demand…
Begin with the end in mind (for Doctoral)… (conducting a
critical analysis of others’ final work)
https://morgan.doctoralnet.com/begin-with-the-end-in-mind-for-doctoral.html
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9. Progress Your Academic Writing

10. Academic writing… The
steps:
No matter where you are…
1. Review the basics
2. Build strength through employing
the subtleties
3. Perfect through consistency
4. Get Published

11. Academic writing… Tools.1
• Review the basics
• On Demand Video: Academic writing basics:
/academic-writing-basics.html
• Opt-In: 10 Day Writing Boost
https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/opt-in-10-day-academic-writing-
boost.html
• Opt-In: Friday academic writing emails
https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/opt-in-friday-academic-writing-emails.html

12. Academic writing… Tools.1
• Build strength through employing the subtleties
• Upcoming Webinars:
https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences
• Boxed Set: Academic Writing – Tools and Concepts
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/academic-writing-tools-to-get-it-done.html
• On Demand Video: Academic writing subtleties /academic-writing-
subtleties.html
• On Demand video: Avoiding Unconscious Plagiarism
/avoiding-unconscious-plagiarism.html

13. Academic writing… Tools.2
• Perfect through Consistency – Phases 2 & 3
• Phase 2: 2.1 Understanding Academic Writing /phase-2.html
• Read and Reread what is required for each chapter… 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
• /phase-2/2-2-writing-methodology.html
• /phase-2/2-3-writing-phd-review-of-literature.html
• /phase-2/2-4-writing-intro-to-phd-thesis.html
• /phase-3/3-3-findings-presented/findings-chapter-written.html
• /phase-3/3-4-findings-discussed/discussion-written.html
• Build your practice with the 30 Day writing challenge
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/30-day-writing-challenge.html

14. Academic writing… Tools.2
• Get Published – Phase 4 and Beyond… /phase-4.html
• On Demand video: /my-account/video-on-demand.html
• Getting ready to publish: /getting-ready-to-publish.html
• Boxed Set – Get Published
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/get-published.html

15. Critical Thinking Progression

16. The ability to think critically… Tools
• As found through search…
• Exercises to Develop Critical Thinking Skills
/component/content/article/362-resources/skills-development/critical-thinking-critical-analysis/1270-exercises-to-develop-critical-
thinking-skills.html?Itemid=1594
• What ?... Critical Thinking?
/component/content/article/362-resources/skills-development/critical-thinking-critical-analysis/1090-what-critical-
thinking.html?Itemid=1594
• As part of the 30 day writing challenge…
• /component/content/article/362-resources/skills-development/critical-thinking-critical-analysis/1063-five-
minutes-on-courses-of-action-in-critical-analysis-day-20-of-the-30-day-challenge.html?Itemid=1594
• /component/content/article/362-resources/skills-development/critical-thinking-critical-analysis/1062-five-
minutes-on-what-is-critical-analysis-day-6-of-the-writing-challenge.html?Itemid=1594
• Boxed Set: Critical thinking, reading, writing, and analysis
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/critical-reading-thinking-writing-analysis.html
• On Demand Videos /my-account/video-on-demand.html
• Critical thinking : /critical-thinking.html
• Upcoming Webinars
• https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences

17. Continual development
of your research

18. 1. Building your design
2. Writing about your research (proposal stage)
3. Data Collection and Analysis
4. Final Defense & Getting Published in the next sections
Steps to Research Mastery

19. Building your design
• Automations © or Self Assessments
• /self-asses-aspects-of-my-research-with-automations.html
• Phase 1 /phase-1.html
• /phase-1/1-3-bridging-topic-and-methods.html
• On Demand videos /my-account/video-on-demand.html
• /choosing-research-designs-methods.html
• Boxed Set
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/designing-
research.html
• Ongoing webinars:
• https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/confere
nces

20. Writing about your research
• During your research work for your final thesis or dissertation…
• /phase-2/2-2-writing-methodology.html
• /phase-2/2-3-writing-phd-review-of-literature.html
• /phase-2/2-4-writing-intro-to-phd-thesis.html
• /phase-3/3-3-findings-presented/findings-chapter-written.html
• /phase-3/3-4-findings-discussed/discussion-written.html
• Ongoing webinars:
• https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences
• For publication – Phase 4
• /phase-4/beginning-to-write.html

21. Data Collection and Analysis
• Phase 3 /phase-3.html
• /phase-3/3-1-data-collection.html
• /phase-3/3-2-data-analysis.html
• Ongoing webinars:
• https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conf
erences

22. Have Data?
Winning at the END GAME!

23. The End Game of Viva or Final Defense Has its
own challenges…
• OnDemand Videos /my-account/video-on-demand.html
• /getting-your-docs-ready-for-the-endgame.html
• /surviving-your-final-defense.html
• /preparing-for-presentation-or-3mts.html
• Boxed Set:
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/final-defense-or-viva-the-end-game.html
• In Development:
Learning snippets (will be on your control panel)

24. Work-Life Balance and
Continuous Support

25. Work-Life Balance
• Webinars at the start of each semester
• https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/doctoralnet/conferences
• Skills development showcase on control panel
• /my-account/my-control-panel/358-resources/skills-development/planning-and-time-
management/465-facing-down-the-doctoral-candidate-dragons.html
• OnDemand Video: /my-account/video-on-demand.html
• /work-life-balance-in-grad-school.html
• 30 Day work-life balance challenge
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/30-day-challenge-4-work-life-balance.html
• General Motivation
• On the app or your control panel – a showcase of support in motivational quotes
and also highlighted videos

26. Continuous Support
• Been at it too long? Join the lingerers for support
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/opt-in-abds-or-those-moving-forward-with-theses.html
• Or try this boxed set…
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/for-abds-reengaging-and-getting-done.html
• Feeling Isolated? 365 motivational emails
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/optins/365-phd-motivation.html
• Need to translate grad school skills to employment skills?
2 boxed sets: cognitive skills and soft skills
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/5-cognitive-skills-for-the-4th-industrial-
revolution.html
• https://resources.doctoralnet.com/boxed-sets/5-soft-skills-for-the-4th-industrial-
revolution-the-attitudinal-ones.html

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