On July 16 2014 03:43 TheEmulator wrote:
wait what, you really wrote your wife's thesis and submitted it?
wait what, you really wrote your wife's thesis and submitted it?
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43401 Posts
On July 16 2014 03:43 TheEmulator wrote: Show nested quote + On July 16 2014 01:41 endy wrote: I wrote my wife master's thesis in 10 days and got a very good grade while not even being a native English speaker. But the subject was marketing, aka common sense. Philosophy takes a lot of research unless you know all the references related to your topic by heart. I'd say: Start by clearly defining the scope of your topic. Do tons of research without spending too much time sorting/filtering it properly; what matters is that you are aware of the various theories/arguments. Write an outline. Fill the outline and add references from what you researched. wait what, you really wrote your wife's thesis and submitted it? | ||
babylon
8765 Posts
edit: is the page length an official department requirement? if not, you might have enough ... in any case, i'd maybe go to your advisor and have them look at what you have so far and ask them to make suggestions. either they'll say it's fine as is or ask you to extend it in X, Y, Z way, which will be helpful, since then you'll know exactly what to elaborate upon. | ||
BlaineLogan
Canada29 Posts
Make sure the scope is not too broad and not too focused. It seems obvious but I used to always think I was being very specific but I was actually speaking in very broad terms because I had not narrowed down my topic adequately. GL | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
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polishedturd
United States505 Posts
On July 16 2014 03:43 TheEmulator wrote: Show nested quote + On July 16 2014 01:41 endy wrote: I wrote my wife master's thesis in 10 days and got a very good grade while not even being a native English speaker. But the subject was marketing, aka common sense. Philosophy takes a lot of research unless you know all the references related to your topic by heart. I'd say: Start by clearly defining the scope of your topic. Do tons of research without spending too much time sorting/filtering it properly; what matters is that you are aware of the various theories/arguments. Write an outline. Fill the outline and add references from what you researched. wait what, you really wrote your wife's thesis and submitted it? that is seriously some wack ass shit | ||
TheGloob
97 Posts
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zf
231 Posts
Edit: I'm only half kidding. Some of the best - and worst - philosophy articles I've read have contained page-length block quotations. | ||
endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On July 16 2014 03:43 TheEmulator wrote: Show nested quote + On July 16 2014 01:41 endy wrote: I wrote my wife master's thesis in 10 days and got a very good grade while not even being a native English speaker. But the subject was marketing, aka common sense. Philosophy takes a lot of research unless you know all the references related to your topic by heart. I'd say: Start by clearly defining the scope of your topic. Do tons of research without spending too much time sorting/filtering it properly; what matters is that you are aware of the various theories/arguments. Write an outline. Fill the outline and add references from what you researched. wait what, you really wrote your wife's thesis and submitted it? Yes, I really wrote the ~110ish pages. It was about brand loyalty and celebrity endorsement's impact on fashion retail. If by "submitted it" you mean that I had to do a presentation then no. There was no thesis defense, so no one noticed. The only hard evidence of research we had to submit together with the paper were audio recordings of the focus groups we conducted. As far as I know, in many countries you are not required to do a presentation of a thesis for Master's degree. I got my Master's degree in France and I didn't have to either. | ||
Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17716 Posts
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On July 16 2014 13:53 Ilikestarcraft wrote: Why didn't your wife write her own thesis? She wrote a first version that was kinda bad and way too short, her written English wasn't very good, and it was the first time she had to write such a big paper so she had no proper methodology. Deadline was approaching. She did great at her finals, always was a good student, but we couldn't take the risk of failing the thesis, which would mean she'd have to stay another year in Ireland and I had just secured a job in China. So instead of trying to fix it I decided to rewrite it from scratch. Luckily, the subject was marketing which does not require any hard/technical skill. I don't wanna derail the blog further, I first mentioned my wife's thesis just to encourage OP and show him it was possible to write a decent 100+ pages paper in 10 days. Please PM me if more questions. | ||
GeckoXp
Germany2016 Posts
On July 16 2014 03:01 Dingodile wrote: I dont understand this requirement. I know alot people can tell/explain a topic very very good in less words/sentences. In that case they have a disadvantage to people who arent good at it (most likely double so much words for the same topic with same coverage). That might be true, even though it's often a defensive position for people who simply aren't good writers - and this is meant as no offense, I had similar problems in high school. It's also a little flawed argument, if you're good at explaining things with a few words, you can also give examples and/or go into more details, see what Plexa wrote. If someone has a disadvantage here, it's the people who haven't been forced to train writing correctly over and over again, or the ones receiving little to no feedback from their mentors and peers. | ||
SoSexy
Italy3725 Posts
Thank you for the great tips, I didn't expect this blog to have so many replies ^^ I will write an update about my thesis in the future | ||
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