Assignment to Dissertation
CMD/DISS | Karen Cisney | February 9th, 2005
Dear All,
I am now on my final module (CMD) before I begin the DISS and which will lead on into the DISS. I am designing a strand to replace one of the two class readers used this semester in an existing syllabus in a university level freshman reading class. I am doing this in order to facilitate and encourage the students to read extensively. The implementation and assessment of the guided extensive reading program will be the DISS portion.
I am writing to ask if anyone is in the process of completing the program in this way, that is, setting up the syllabus (CSD/CMD) then linking that onto the DISS. As I am linking CMD and DISS and from past experience my syllabi (particularly with a new class) evolve as I use them, I am interested in how you might determine a stopping point for CMD and a beginning point for the DISS. Although I generally decided that the CMD would be the WHAT AND WHY and the DISS the HOW AND WHY, I think the border between the two is fuzzy. I am looking forward to reading any responses you may send.
Karen Cisney
Taiwan
Re: CMD/DISS | Jerry Talandis Jr. | February 9th, 2005
Karen,
Have you written up an outline for your dissertation? One way to look at it could be to forget you are doing CMD for the moment, and just focus on the DISS. What would that structure look like? If you get that together, perhaps it will become clear what the CMD part should be. Why don't you toss out a rough outline to this list? We could better give you advice if you did, and putting something out in "public" might help clear your head.
Good luck!
Jerry
Japan
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