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| Mar 9, 2021 at 18:41 | comment | added | user104446 | Actually, I'm one of those who do read things like Dedication and Acknowledgements first. Carefully read, it can give an insight to the character of the author and his/her approach to the topic. For example, after finding a recentish (80s) thesis covering a topic of interest, I read the Deds after the Abstract. It was too touching to be false: his parents (like they all do), siblings, a couple and another man from his home town; then In Memoriam of his dead brother and the now deceased wife of forementioned man from his home town. Any guy honoring teachers and neighbors can't be bad. | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 19:29 | comment | added | user151413 | I didn't say it made sense to put them at the end. I said there are places where it is customary to put it at the end. Indeed, if you put it at the end, people at least have to flip once through your thesis before they get to read it! | |
| Jan 21, 2021 at 15:34 | comment | added | user104446 | Yes, Mr Contradiction. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 23:06 | comment | added | user151413 | To be fair, it's the acknowledgements which everyone reads first, so it makes sense to put them at the beginning ;) | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 22:12 | comment | added | user104446 | Yes. Looked at PhD LaTex templates offered by various universities in UK and Ireland, they are much the same. Even Harvard/Princeton/NYU's one overleaf.com/latex/templates/… is sort of similar. Slight variations of some "official" LaTex template put together in 1970s. But I know good theses that were not so orthodox in their format. So in the end, where to put the Acknowledgements (or Dedication) comes down to where the author wants them. It's the main content that counts. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 15:02 | comment | added | user151413 | I just checked a bunch of theses and it might well be a regional thing. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 14:27 | comment | added | user151413 | What are you trying to say? | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | user104446 | I saw one engineering thesis with an acknowledgements section immediately after the conclusions and suggestions for further work sections. It was quite long read like he'd got a helluva lot of help from everyone on everything. Almost like the acknowledgements at the end of a mojor political biography. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 13:49 | comment | added | user151413 | Sure. I'd even consider it the normal option in the theses I've seen. | |
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 13:20 | comment | added | user104446 | You've seen it after the end of the thesis proper ? | |
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 16:13 | comment | added | user151413 | "theses have it before Chapter 1" - That's one out of two possibilities. | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 15:09 | vote | accept | Esmay Verzijlbergen | ||
| Jan 19, 2021 at 14:26 | history | answered | user104446 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |