At least once during their years in school they do. Sometimes, students are able to get the assistance that they need from an instructor or a teaching assistant. However, if this is not enough help students must rely on tutoring services to make sure that they understand the material and that they keep up with their assignments.

Let’s face it, text-heavy presentations often have a lot of great information. Unfortunately, that information is wasted if the audience becomes bored and distracted.

Some days you would just rather have a root canal than work on your dissertation. Everyone who has ever produced a dissertation absolutely relates to your current pain, and prepare yourself – there will be more days like this to come.

If you want to be successful, you should find out what successful people are doing. Then, you should do what they are doing. This is wise advice. Here is some more good advice; take note of the things that successful people aren’t doing, and avoid those habits as well.

If you are in a doctoral program in any academic discipline, you are no doubt in the initial planning stages for your dissertation, beginning the project, or somewhere in the middle of it all. You know that it involves a number of steps, from identifying your research question, to writing your proposal, to preparing each chapter, according to your department specifications, submitting the finished product, and then preparing for your oral defense.

Every institution is different, and every department within an institution may be very different in terms of their guidelines and specifications for the Ph.D. dissertation. Your first step is to read through the manual that has been provided by your advisor – not just a cursory “look through” – but a thorough reading, so that you are absolutely clear about all of the requirements.

By the times students are in doctoral programs in health care, they have moved into very specialized areas, and health dissertation topics will become students’ concerns as soon as they enter their doctoral programs. Given that they are fully specialized in terms of coursework, locating potential topics for dissertations will come from that coursework.

As you look toward that dissertation, you should begin early in the exploration of topics, because even with the specialization that doctoral students select for their coursework, there are almost limitless possible business dissertation topics. Explore some possible topic.

If you are a doctoral student, you are certainly looking toward that dissertation and, even early on in your programs, you are undoubtedly thinking about possible dissertation topics in education that are related to your area of specialty – higher ed, educational leadership, elementary or secondary education, special education, multicultural/bilingual/trilingual education, or early childhood education, to name just some of them.

We all have glanced at the interior pages of a book and seen the acknowledgements. Usually, the author thanks people who have helped him/her with research, who have acted as consultants, who have reviewed and proofread the work, a family member(s) who may have acted as “cheerleaders” along the way, etc.