Doctoral students are eligible for four years of funding through teaching, as well as for fellowships. As the degree title suggests, structure is one of its focuses, but it also emphasizes cultural factors in textual creation.
The Composition and Cultural Rhetoric doctoral program at Syracuse University is similarly interdisciplinary and stresses graduate student professionalization through departmental involvement. In Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon and Penn State are both excellent schools for rhetoric and composition, with Penn state boasting an incredible Minnesota Colleges. Mississippi Colleges. Missouri Colleges. New Mexico Colleges.
New York Colleges. North Carolina Colleges. Ohio Colleges. Oklahoma Colleges. Oregon Colleges. Pennsylvania Colleges. South Carolina Colleges. South Dakota Colleges. You will be invited first to introduce your portfolio by recounting its development. Then the faculty takes up further questioning. To enjoy the salary benefits that accompany dissertator status, it is necessary to schedule the oral prior to the official start of the semester in which you desire that status.
Failure to pass the exam by August or January before your seventh semester will be grounds for academic probation. If necessary, you have one additional semester to retake the exam and clear the probation. Articulate your research interests in relation to the core list.
You might consider which conversations most resonate with your research interests and why, identify and synthesize themes that undergird your own interests, or identify lacunae either in the list or in the field that call your work into being. Be sure to account, at least partially, for both those aspects of the field with which you identify and those you turn away from.
This is a formal step in the graduate degree process and must be completed by the end of your sixth semester. Admission to candidacy occurs when you have successfully completed:. If you have not completed your minor, you must also declare one and have it approved by signature of the grad advisor. ABD [all but dissertation] status, which brings you a raise in your TA stipend, requires paperwork.
Keep in good contact with the Graduate Division during this phase. Students not admitted to candidacy by the end of their 6th semester will be placed on probation. While you are writing your dissertation, you need to be continually enrolled in English Dissertation Research. If you do not sign up for these credits each semester by the registration deadline, you will face a stiff financial penalty when you try to re-enroll.
You must always be enrolled during the semester in which you plan to defend your dissertation— even if that means the summer. Stay in good contact with the Graduate Office about these enrollment procedures. Within six months after you have finished course work, you will be expected to have completed a draft of your dissertation proposal and defend it at a conference with your five-member dissertation committee see more below.
Proposals generally range from pages plus a bibliography. Your dissertation director will be your main guide in formulating a dissertation project and drafting a proposal. You must arrange the proposal defense by contacting committee members and finding a two-hour time period when all can meet. You also need to secure a meeting room and contact the Graduate Office Coordinator in advance to prepare the necessary paper work, which you should bring with you to the defense.
Following a successful defense, the dissertation committee will sign their approval of the proposal and you can put in on file in the Graduate Division. The quality of your dissertation project—along with the quality of your teaching record—is perhaps the most important factor in how you will fare on the job market.
The best projects are those that are sensitive to their moment in the field, ones that proceed from a knowledge of the past, a sense of the significance of the present, and a vision of the future direction of the field. While our individual life circumstances often draw us to particular kinds of projects, dissertations should have a public significance within the field of CompRhet and be approached with that significance in mind.
Thinking about the parts of the field with which you most want to affiliate—the conversations you want to be in, the audiences you seek, the kinds of things you want to be reading and doing—all should figure into the search for a dissertation question. Dissertations also need a realistic scope: you should be able to complete your thesis in a year or two.
It should also employ methods with which you have had some earlier preparation and, ideally, experience. Four of the five members must be from the UW-Madison campus. You will need to work out with your director a procedure for sharing your work with the wider dissertation committee. Your director needs to be the first pair of eyes and may approve drafts of chapters to be circulated among other faculty members. Some directors and students prefer that an entire draft be completed before circulating it to other readers.
In other cases, all committee members play ongoing and active consulting roles. It is up to you to reach an understanding with your director and committee members about their roles. It is the custom of this area to hold the dissertation defense only after a draft of the thesis is finished. As a courtesy, all dissertation committee members should have a copy of your dissertation one month prior to the defense. Normally, some revisions are requested as an outcome of the defense.
It is important to be in good communication with the Graduate Division as completion of the dissertation nears, as there are forms to fill out and procedures to follow.
Also, be sure you are familiar with Graduate School regulations for formatting and delivering the thesis to the Graduate School. Because so much research in CompRhet involves observing, interviewing, and sometimes testing human beings, faculty and students alike need to be knowledgeable about guidelines affecting such research.
Because of heightened scrutiny of universities that receive federal funding, the University of Wisconsin has developed rather elaborate oversight procedures for anyone doing research involving human subjects. According to university guidelines, students who conduct research in order to fulfill course requirements are not required to seek approval from a Human Subjects Committee although gaining informed consent is always wise.
However, if you ever want to try to publish this research—or think you might—then you must have prior approval. We recommend in most cases, if you are planning research with human subjects as part of your graduate coursework, that you become certified through the tutorial and submit your plans and consent forms to the Review Board.
This course of study increases your awareness of and possibilities for various media and technologies. For a complete list of all the courses you will take and their descriptions, please see our Graduate Catalog.
View Catalog. Note: For purposes of advising, enrollment in all graduate courses in the Department of English requires permission of the department. At the completion of coursework, students take comprehensive examinations covering the concentration and cognates. Oral examinations follow the written exam. Candidates for the PhD must complete a dissertation on an original topic under the guidance of a committee of faculty.
The dissertation requires 16 hours of credit in DISS Review our admission requirements, dates and deadlines, and instructions. Then complete our online application.
If you would like to learn more about this program or about Ball State Graduate School in general, please complete our online form to request more information.
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