چکیده (انگلیسی):

In order to provide candidates with effective advisement, it is important for the advisor to continue
to practice positive professional relationships and provide relevant academic support to
candidates. The advisor should work closely with other faculty members and need to listen to the
voices of candidates to ensure candidates’ success. What should an advisor do overall for
doctorate candidates? The advisor should provide candidates with developmental sessions, utilize
the value of peer support, give relevant feedback and assessment timely and give a review of
doctorate program expectations before and during the dissertation process. Too many candidates
have struggled during the writing process, for example, of the dissertation proposal, because
candidates enter the program with limited skills in technical writing. Therefore, a graduate
writing center with competent faculty to facilitate such areas of support as basic writing skills for
the behavioral and social sciences, manuscript structure, writing cl early and concisely, formatting
and style, composing and displaying data results, and citing references properly so that
candidates do not participate in plagiarism during the writing of the dissertation would be
invaluable and relevant support to candidates. A session by the advisor should be dedicated to
time management. It appears that too many doctorate candidates do not recognize that writing
the dissertation requires a lot of time and time management is crucial in order for candidates to
stay on top of their research and writing requirements.
This study will focus on the role of the advisor, candidates views about advisement based on
candidates’ experiences, a simplified view of outcome results, research designs with clarity, what
is feedback, clarity with frequent feedback makes a difference, using plagiarism checking research
services and evaluation of candidates’ written work. The benefit of this study is to share with the
broader community of doctorate program advisors and faculty committee members the need to
provide the best quality experiences in advisement and instructional services to doctorate
candidates to ensure their success in completing the doctorate degree program, because too many
candidates complete all major course work except the actual dissertation.