Dissertation+Proposal+Versions

=**Assignment:**= Get Dissertation Proposal approved by chair, committee, and 
 * Started: 11 November 2013** (DIS9504E)
 * Approved by Chair: 28 April 2014** (DIS9505E)
 * Approved by Committee: 4 May 2014** (DIS9505E)
 * Approved by Graduate: 25 June 2014** (DIS9506E)
 * Total Number of Days: 236**

Version 0 - Template with styles, no comments, no content
= DIS9504E =

Version 1 - Initial draft (1 December 2013)
Not all of the sections are filled in yet, and I'm getting close to finishing re-reading of all of my articles preparatory for writing the lit review (over 6,000 pages), but I wanted to get some feedback from my chair, and .



Version 2 - Second draft (15 December 2013)
It's been a busy couple weeks, so I responded to most of my chair's comments and added a section and a half to my literature review. Each section is taking a day to three because of the large number of notes that I have, and since I have 30 sections, it may take a little while to get the literature review . I have the two weeks of Christmas mostly off, so I am hoping to be able to use that time to complete the DP and get it ready for submission to the committee and GS.

Version 3 - Third draft (5 January 2014)
I worked daily on the literature review and wrote about 40 pages over the Christmas and New Years holidays. I've finished the first eight sections but have 29 more to go. The problem with reading and reviewing over 400 articles and 6,000 pages is that there's a lot to say. I've also randomly selected the schools that I need to approach for inclusion in my study and will be preparing my approach to them this upcoming week as well as  to write my literature review. It's looking like my review will be about 250 pages long - that could be interesting! We'll see what my chair has to say.

Version 4 - Fourth draft (12 January 2014)
Chair was not satisfied with just the 50+ pages added to my literature review and would like for me to complete a chapter. This week I tried to complete both chapters one and three as well as continue working on chapter two.

Version 5 - Fifth draft (19 January 2014)
Chapter one has been acknowledged complete, but chair wants expansion on a section in chapter three, and of course the finish of chapter two. I expanded the section in chapter three and finished a major section in chapter two. I sent in a new plan for getting the DP ready for submission to the SME by the first day of the next course, but I will be holding off on  in the next course for three weeks.

Version 6 - Sixth draft (26 January 2014)
Chapter three is closer to , but the literature review is still a good ways from being completed, even though another section has been completed. My chair wants my appendixes to be up to date and include the instruments and my letters to the various schools. = DIS9505E =

Version 7 - Seventh draft (24 February 2014)
Chapter three has been acknowledged complete, and I have finished writing the literature review. My chair feels that there is not enough specificity in the literature review, and that many of the paragraphs should be put into past tense instead of present tense. The APA says that it should be in present tense if the subject is ongoing

Version 8 - Eighth draft (11 March 2014)
Still don't have a literature review that the chair likes. I have included a lot of  and a lot of synthesis, but she feels that there needs to be much more specific evaluation and specific findings. She has given me some resources to look at for an idea of what is wanted. I reworked the literature to be more past tense, but much of it makes statements that are continuing. My chair says that it reads more like and academic discussion or a COMPS exam than what a literature review should. I have a phone call with her on the 18th and will see if I can get some clarity so that I can move forward. Of course, if the sections that I put into the literature review weren't right, it would have been nice to have been informed of that a couple of months ago while I was in the middle of working on it rather than after I've written 97 pages!

Version 9 - Ninth draft (31 March 2014)
Still working on including more evaluation into the literature review - working through each of my sources one-at-a-time to derive the type of study, and what the findings were. It's taking time, but I'll have a heck of a literature review when I'm done. It's getting closer, but there is still the major work to do before I can finalize the literature review.

Version 10 - First complete draft (20 April 2014)
I feel that I have all of the information that I need in the literature review, and it is now time to get it ready for review by the committee and the GS. I went through each of my references and removed those that no longer were cited in the paper and included 81 specific sections of findings. My literature review now stands at 114 pages, but I expect that my chair will winnow that down a bit and move things around to better meet the purpose. This next week I will approach the remaining schools that I want to include and begin working on the verbiage for my IRB application. It's taken quite a while to get the literature review to the point it is, and I want to get it right. We'll see how close it really is.

to Graduate School (5 May 2014)
My chair had four minor corrections, and I went through and made sure that my grammar was still correct, and now it's time to send it to committee. It's been almost six months since my SME has been involved in the process, but now he gets his say on the matter. I'm excited that my first full draft was accepted by my chair, and I'm working hard behind the scenes to get the 12 schools that will provide my sample on board as well. = DIS9506E =

Version 12 - Resubmit of Dissertation Proposal (19 May 2014)
The Graduate School reviewer provided some amazing feedback on improving my study and specifics on what is needed to more fully explain what is is that I am doing. I don't think that the revision will take that much time for me to incorporate, and I look forward to a much better proposal.

Version 13 - Resubmit of Dissertation Proposal (30 May 2014)
I have attempted to address the concerns of my chair, and more fully clarified how I will conduct my research. In the meanwhile I will begin to refine my IRB application to have it ready just in case.

to Graduate School (9 June 2014)
My chair wanted the slight correction of additional citations in a new paragraph that I inserted, otherwise, she said it is ready to go back to committee! Hopefully, this will be the time for getting this approved in the next 15 days!

Version 15 - No modification, but a reply to the last comment by the Graduate School (25 June2014)
The Graduate School argued that converting a paper survey to online should require a pilot study. My chair and I disagreed, and so stated in the change matrix