Form what I understand, in reality, what your 3 chpater meeting is like depends entirely on your committee. They are the only folks there, and it is mostly, from what Mark has told me, an opporutnity for them to suggest revisions, ask for elaboration, clarification or qualification, and genrerlly say: here's wha tyou need to do as you / before you proceed. I hav eno idea about pperwork. If I get up early enough to chat with Mark tomorrow morning, I will as him. Amy On 7/20/05, Joanna Paull <joannapaull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can someone ask about the process for doing the culminating evaluation? > Has anyone done it yet, or will I be the proverbial guinea pig? Is there > paper work? Will there be visitors? What is the actual experience like? > There are two goals listed--to test our knowledge of the core list of texts > and to review three chapters of our dissertation for potential for > continuation. Verbal and written get assessed with a pass or fail. that's > all the "handbook" tells us. I'm scared. Someone help. > Joanna >