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 The 2012 OCIS Doctoral Consortium will be held on August 3-4 in Boston,Massachusetts,USA. This year’s consortium should be a great opportunity for doctoral students to gather valuable feedback on their dissertations and to network with other students and prominent faculty members. Faculty advisers that have already confirmed their participation in the consortium include . . . →Read More:Deadline for OCIS Doctoral Consortium is Quickly Approaching  This post is the second part of an interview we recently conducted with Paul Leonardi regarding the the value OCIS can provide to communications students and scholars. Why should communication students get involved in OCIS? I think that involvement in OCIS helps to broaden the perspective that people studying communication have. Organizational communication is . . . →Read More:Interview with Paul Leonardi –Part 2 Details for the OCIS Doctoral Consortium for 2011 in San Antonio,Texas have been released! The consortium will be held on August 12-13 and will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network,receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications . . . →Read More:OCIS Doctoral Consortium 2011 I’ve been reading Hart’s book,Doing a Literature Review,for class and he mentioned interesting points that I wanted to share. He stresses the importance of scholarship in writing. According to Hart,“There is,however,a difference between producing a piece of competent research and a piece of research that demonstrates scholarship,” (p. 8). Integration, . . . →Read More:Some Thoughts for Dissertation Writing Post comps is a period in the life of doctoral students where they have to manage their own time…and manage it poductively to get the degree in finite time…More often we fall in the trap of procastination. I hope many of us will be able to relate to following video clip. This was . . . →Read More:THESIS WRITING AND PROCASTINATION Is anyone struggling like I am with procrastination while working on the dissertation? If so,are there ways in which you sometimes overcome it? How? The New York Times recently published an article,“Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.”looking at the challenges doctoral students face in long doctoral programs. The author notes,as bad as it is,the time to graduate is improving: For those who attempt it,the doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon . . . →Read More:The long and winding road September is preparing to yield to October. My calendar says the first day of Fall recently occurred,so Spring just arrived for our southern hemisphere readers,too. All this means a new semester is well underway for most of us. Now that I’m in my fifth and final year of doctoral studies this semester is . . . →Read More:A new semester How to stay focus on your Thesis work and at the same time also preparing manuscript for publication and attending to R&R? Do you allot some specific time slots (days,weeks) for each of these activities? Or do you attend to them as and when they come? Does a revise and resubmit disrupt your progress . . . →Read More:Focusing on dissertation You may have remembered hearing the sad news in August,2005:Distinguished Professor Gerardine DeSanctis Passes Away. Perhaps you read one of her many publications. Her doctoral students include three of the most prolific Information Systems authors:S. L. Javenpaa,R. T. Watson and V. Sambamurthy. As announced on OCISNET this week: The first . . . →Read More:First Annual Gerardine DeSanctis Dissertation Award |
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