Do you understand what is required in a doctoral dissertation or thesis? -- Do you have an idea for a topic? -- Do you have some idea how you will study your topic? Bridging topic and methods -- Do you know how to develop your research design and methodology -- Do you understand how to fine-tune your methodological choices? Moving from basics to getting ready to write -- Are you ready to write your methodology? -- Are you ready to write your review of literature? -- Are you ready to write the overview for your study? -- Are you and your proposal prepared for defense? -- Have you finished your data collection? -- Are you ready to write up your qualitative data? -- Are you ready to write up your quantitative data? -- Are you ready to write up your mixed methods data? -- Are you ready for your final defense?