
{"id":2253,"date":"2019-01-14T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T10:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/the-lessons-ive-learned-by-writing-a-dissertation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:37:10","slug":"the-lessons-ive-learned-by-writing-a-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/the-lessons-ive-learned-by-writing-a-dissertation","title":{"rendered":"The lessons I&#8217;ve learned by writing a dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Last week, I made the final edits to my dissertation draft and got it printed. This week, I handed it in. All I have to do in the two months I have left at my current university is prepare for my defense. It\u2019s a good time to look back at the four years I spent here. I will start with the last thing I did\u2014writing my dissertation\u2014and come to the rest of my experience in a later post.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I\u2019ve been slowly writing bits and pieces of my dissertation for well over a year. While that might seem like a long time, it was mostly half an hour every morning before going to work. The actual amount of writing I got done wasn\u2019t that large. Writing a dissertation, a half-hour at a time, is a long process (way longer than a year).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">All this changed in May. First of all, my latest research project had been nearing its end for some time, and it was the last one I would need before defending my dissertation. I also got an offer for a postdoc position; we agreed on a starting date during the beginning of September, and it became clear that I\u2019d have my defense before that. Practically overnight, my dissertation moved up in my list of priorities from (almost) the bottom to the very top.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">In the following six weeks, I managed to finish drafting, incorporate feedback from my supervisor, proofread the whole text, and prepare it for print. The schedule was tight (in the last week, I didn\u2019t have time for anything but writing) but not terribly so. I didn\u2019t have to continue working late into the night. It would have been impossible to plan everything better.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Why am I telling you all this? Because the whole process (and the last few weeks in particular) helped me realize three things: I enjoy writing (I actually knew that already), I am good at it, and I know I\u2019m good at it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">It doesn\u2019t take a genius to figure out one enjoys writing. But finding out that one is a good writer is more difficult. For me, the final proof was that my supervisor gave me a single round of feedback on my dissertation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">As I said before, the schedule was tight. My supervisor didn\u2019t have time to read my dissertation twice; he barely had the time to read it once (I don\u2019t blame him, though; I didn\u2019t give him much time). He had some feedback on what I\u2019d written, of course, but requested no substantial changes. I should better delineate what my own contributions are, I should better explain my motivation behind why I did what I did \u2013 That sort of thing; Easy to fix!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Granted, my dissertation didn\u2019t require that much writing in the first place. It is based on the papers I wrote with my supervisor (and two of our postdocs). So it was a question of joining them into one story arc, providing a more detailed background, and writing a joint introduction and conclusion. But there is still a lot that could go wrong with all these things; and it didn\u2019t. I had an idea for all this, wrote it down, and it didn\u2019t need much reworking. To me, that\u2019s a sign that I\u2019m a decent writer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">It\u2019s one thing to be a good writer but it doesn\u2019t help much if one is constantly doubting oneself. I also had my worries when I sent the draft to my supervisor \u2013 What if he finds a huge error in my calculations? What if he thinks I should add half a chapter more? What if I\u2019ll have to restructure the whole text? But I didn\u2019t let that stop me. And once I got the revisions back, I was confident enough to believe that one round of feedback is enough to ensure I\u2019ve written a good dissertation (My supervisor actually read the most critical parts once more after my revision so it was more like one and a half rounds, but my point still stands).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I know I\u2019m lucky that everything went so smoothly. Many people struggle with their writing (I do too, at times). But I\u2019m not writing this post to gloat \u2013 because figuring this out is just the beginning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Now that I\u2019m aware of my writing skills, I have to make sure I use them well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have to write great research papers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have to write great blog posts (And I have to believe they are great. My blogging confidence isn\u2019t nearly as high as my dissertating confidence, which is weird because I\u2019ve written more blog posts than dissertations).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have to write great books, if the opportunity ever comes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">And if I find out that academia isn\u2019t for me, I\u2019ll know I have to find a job that involves a lot of writing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>In the coming weeks and months, my goal is clear: write a lot<\/b>. I\u2019m starting a new job and I\u2019ll have to figure out what exactly I\u2019ll work on. I also want to start blogging regularly again (for the zillionth time) and I\u2019m not yet sure what path I want to take. I\u2019ll be surrounded by ideas day in and day out and have to find the ones worth following. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>And the best way to sort through myriad ideas is writing, writing, writing.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Ondrej Cernotik (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cernotik\">@cernotik<\/a>)\u00a0is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. This story was published on July 7, 2017, on Ondrej&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cernotik.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">blog<\/a>,\u00a0(available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cernotik.com\/2017\/07\/07\/what-i-learned-by-writing-a-dissertation\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">here<\/a>) and has been republished here with his\u00a0permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I made the final edits to my dissertation draft and got it printed. This week, I handed it in. All I have to do in the two months I have left at my current university is prepare for my defense. 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