How to choose a dissertation topic, Charles Tilly style
I was afk when “Charles Tilly passed away”:http://www.ssrc.org/essays/tilly/ — a great man whose loss will be greatly felt. There is a great collection of “work, much of its open access”:http://www.ssrc.org/essays/tilly/resources of and about Tilly on the SSRC website. One of the best and most useful things is a “brief, excellent 6 slide powerpoint on how to choose a dissertation topic”:http://www.ssrc.org/essays/tilly/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/tilly-selecting-dissertation-topic.ppt. I _highly_ recommend it for social scientists trying to narrow down their topic, or for people advising students who are trying to narrow down their topics. Simple and yet beautiful so if you have five minutes… check it out.
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Perfect timing! Thank you!
Help? Trying to find the Tilley “How to Choose a Dissertation Topic” slides. Anyone know where to get them with the SSRC link now dead, it seems? I recall that they were very useful and I need then again and cannot find them. Thanks.
Here is a link that should open in Google’s viewer app.