{"id":2433,"date":"2013-07-29T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/?page_id=2433"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:23:37","slug":"writing-the-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/student-handbook\/program-requirements\/dissertation\/writing-the-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing the Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is imperative that all students refer to the UC San Diego&#8217;s \u201cDissertation &amp; Thesis Submission\u201d website (<a href=\"https:\/\/grad.ucsd.edu\/academics\/preparing-to-graduate\/dissertation-thesis-submission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/grad.ucsd.edu\/academics\/preparing-to-graduate\/dissertation-thesis-submission.html<\/a>) on how to format and file your dissertation.\u00a0 Your dissertation must follow UC San Diego&#8217;s dissertation guidelines.\u00a0 Do not refer to SDSU formatting, as they will accept the dissertation based on UC San Diego formatting.<\/p>\n<h3>Preliminary Appointment with UC San Diego&#8217;s Graduate Division<\/h3>\n<p>Once the dissertation is written, you must make a <i>preliminary<\/i> appointment with Sara Miceli in the Graduate Division at UC San Diego, to assure formatting is correct. \u00a0<b>Preliminary appointments may be scheduled for any time (but preferably not in early June if at all possible).<\/b>\u00a0Appointments can be made online using the Graduate Division online calendar at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gradforms.ucsd.edu\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/gradforms.ucsd.edu\/calendar&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583439003417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEO3ip-himggPGxWyxPfB-B1mzWDQ\">https:\/\/gradforms.ucsd.edu\/<wbr \/>calendar<\/a>.*\u00a0 Please refer to the site prior to making an appointment as there are specific guidelines to be followed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*NOTE: <\/strong>Appointments may be made at least one full day in advance, but <strong><u>not more than 60 days in advance<\/u><\/strong>, so plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Once you schedule your preliminary appointment, you will receive an email from UC San Diego&#8217;s Graduate Division with detailed instructions on how\/what to prepare for your preliminary meeting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Graduate Division recommends that you complete your preliminary appointment prior to your defense<\/b>; however, this is not required and there are no negative repercussions if you have your preliminary appointment after your defense.\u00a0 However, <b>your\u00a0<i>final<\/i>\u00a0appointment\u00a0<i>must be after<\/i>\u00a0your defense<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b>All preliminary appointments will be scheduled over Zoom so this can easily be done while on internship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" data-tadv-p=\"keep\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Updated 9\/08\/2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is imperative that all students refer to the UC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":121,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433\/revisions\/13384"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}