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Requirements of the Three-Article Dissertation

  • Articles should form a cohesive body of work.
  • A proposal defense will be held to include Chapter 1 and an overview of the three studies to include brief literature review and methods for each study.
  • Articles must be of publishable quality though publication is not required for dissertation approval.
  • The proposal should include the identification of a target journal for each article, including the publication guidelines for that journal, although the student will not be held to this selection for the dissertation to be approved.
  • The student maintains the responsibility for obtaining copyright permission for journals for article inclusion in the dissertation, noting that the dissertation will be available online.
  • Overlap of content, particularly in the literature review is acceptable; however the student must self-cite.
  • The final defense will mirror that of the traditional dissertation.

 

This description has been adapted for use at William & Mary with the permission of the Graduate School at the University of Tennessee.