These types of a books are a little difficult at times because they are very specific about following a specific plan.  While the guidelines provided are very helpful, in the end everyone has their own style and time requirements they adhere to.

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Going through the review process (both of the receiving end and evaluating end) is by far the best preparation for writing your own work...

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The one year timeline is pretty typical across other disciplines from what I have seen as well....It's definately not a problem limited to IS

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Charles, based on oyur comment of reading seemily easier at the end, I had to say, it was nice considering we were reading so much for our research paper. thanks for another semester of epic 'green juice' stories my friend!!

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Hey Chris, yea i liked thie personal proposal part too. It seems this project becomes so massive its a mandatory organizer to keep yourself in check.

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This last part of the Doctoral Dissertation book was similar in setiments to my earlier post (part 1). I think the author does a great job of showing the human side of this work. Although everybody will aproach it through a different lense and through different research topics, the planning and understanding is what I’m understanding as the key to success here. I think the main idea behind the second half of this book is to further educate the reader how important the structure and planning is. Advisory committee’s, meetings, schedules, planning, funding are all crucial aspects to a dissertation that I previously was unaware of. I had no idea what this last piece of work entailed, bu feel furtunate that this book kid of provides such a clear ‘heads up’ on the matter.  Overall a very worthwhile read.

To everyone in class. Thank you. This has been a really insighful group. Ive grown acustomed to reading textbooks and learning from lectures as a standard class format. I think the most important knowledge I've recieved from this class was from listerning to your reactions, suggestions, and comment on this literature. I hope to have this type class with you all again.

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I agree, and it might also be discouraging too, but we must publish or die.

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The one year review cycle: is this bad or is this typical across disciplines?  I wonder how IS compares to other disciplines in this regard.

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I think I agree with you.  I find this book to be helpful more as a collection of tools and requirements than as a schedule for writing something.  The first book we read -- The Craft of Research -- seems far more realistic in how it depicts research: as a process of false starts, unexpected directions, rewrites, and reconsiderings.

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