Doctoral candidates preparing for the PhD dissertation defense (or viva): I was asked whether I thought it was better to do a DTP (Dissertation Two Pager) or a GDN (Global Dissertation Narrative) in preparation for the defense.
My suggestion now is the latter: write a GDN.
The following two tweets explain my reasoning:
HOWEVER… at the defense you want to showcase what you did and what you learned. To do that, my Global Dissertation Narrative (GDN) model allows you to clearly outline every single element of the dissertation in a coherent narrative. https://t.co/f4W9TcoshC
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 19, 2022
Thus I would say, write DTPs throughout the PhD (lots of Masters and Undergraduate students also use my DTP strategy) and THEN the last semester of your PhD, write both a final, final DTP AND a GDN.
I hope this is helpful to those of you who use my strategies.
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