Defending Your Ph.D. Dissertation

What happens when your committee wants you to fail? Most defense advice assumes goodwill across the table. This one does not. Drawing on decades of teaching, consulting, and reviewing graduate work in the United States and Chile, Dr. John M. Cobin-PhD, George Mason University, 1996-shows you how to survive a hostile reading. Learn to anticipate the trap questions, defend your methodology under fire, give ground without giving in, and hold your nerve when the room turns against you.
Clear, candid, and unsentimental, this is the preparation no one tells you that you need-until the door closes and the questions begin.