Sneha's Dissertation Timeline

Sneha needs to write a prospectus and complete a dissertation in order to graduate from Northwestern. This page contains the project timeline and current to do list.

Outline of Prospectus

The dissertation will consist of three studies:

• Study 1: The TWA study - this is currently a paper submission to CSCW.
• Study 2: The Message Walls study - this will use data from wikia wikis that changed user talk pages to message walls, and see if that impacted newcomer retention in any way
• Study 3: The Bike Co-op study - this will be a needs assessment of a bike-co-op's onboarding process

Milestones

• Complete Study 3
• Revise introduction/conclusion
• Send out work/pieces for feedback
• Act on feedback
• Defend dissertation
• Submit with revisions
• Profit!

Timeline

Fall 2018

• Friday, October 5th - share draft of Study 3 for feedback
• Friday, October 12th - share draft of introduction/conclusion with Aaron
• Monday, October 15th - one week before defense date - work on revisions
• Week of 29th/Week of 5th - schedule defense
• End of November/before Dec 1st - make revisions and submit final version