“To be prepared is half the victory”
Miguel De Cervantes
You had a lot of questions when you were working on your dissertation project. Finally, everything is over and there is one more question left – how to defend a dissertation.
Perhaps, you will not believe it right now, but defending your dissertation will not be that difficult. The thing is that a lot of students draw pictures of “attack” when they think about their dissertation defense. They have to protect themselves and their projects against this “attack”.
If you have the same approach, defending your dissertation will turn into a kind of struggle that you might either fail or come out with a victory but absolutely exhausted.
This is why getting ready for defending your dissertation, first of all, means getting ready psychologically. Let us share several secrets with you on how to get ready for defending your dissertation.
Defending your dissertation: create an image of a professional
Only professionals and real experts in some fields can cope with such project as a dissertation. Do you think you will have a positive and professional image if you feel nervous like a teenager at the blackboard?
Defending your dissertation: this is a good sign
You are defending your dissertation, which means you have done a good job, and your project is just perfect. You simply would not be standing in front of the committee if they did not like your topic or anything else about your project.
Defending your dissertation: you know all the answers
“Gosh! I do not know the answers!” This is the biggest nightmare of those who get ready for defending a dissertation. If this is your nightmare as well, keep in mind the following: committee members will not squeeze their brains to invest a sophisticated question for you. They will focus on items that were unclear to them or something they found really interesting and want get more details.
On our blog, you can find a lot of dissertation-related articles, e.g. about a dissertation grant or a dissertation support group.