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What should I do with my 60 page undergraduate thesis?
I recently finished my undergraduate thesis in philosophy. It came out to about 60 pages/16,000 words. Now that I'm done, I'm wondering what I should do with it - if I should send it somewhere for ...
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Somewhat bad grades and repeated courses in first few semesters, will it affect my chance to write a bachelors thesis? [closed]
I'm currently studying Computer Science in my 4th year and due to some personal reasons during my first few semesters, I wasn't really performing too well and had to retake a few classes.
Although my ...
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How do you decide whether to let a student asking for a (professor-level) advisor to be apart of their senior/junior undergraduate thesis? [closed]
What are your expectations for a student asking for an advisor for a senior/junior undergraduate thesis and what do students need to have to write a approvable junior/senior thesis?
Is there some ...
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I think my thesis analysis sucks and I don't know how make it work
I'm writing an undergraduate thesis in linguistics. My topic is about comparing politeness in English to the honorific system in Korean. No one in my school speaks Korean, neither my supervisor, but I ...
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Who to contact when my undergraduate thesis advisor doesn't return my e-mails?
I am an undergraduate working on my thesis. It is a difficult situation because my thesis advisor took a new job and has left the university, and I also work part-time. My advisor goes months without ...
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can anyone else submit my thesis behalf of me
I did an undergraduate thesis with my partner. It don't have any missed, wrong or theft information. I was ill and long away from my dorm that time. So I told my partner to print and submit it. He had ...
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How can I communicate with my advisor over repeated revision of my undergraduate thesis?
I am an undergraduate student writing a thesis. I am stuck in a cycle of revisions and would like to be able to complete my thesis and move on to other things.
I have both an advisor and co-advisor. ...
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How to cite my advisor on my own thesis?
There is one section inside a chapter of my thesis that ended up written by my advisor.
As it stands right now, I think it should have quotation marks, and then to add the reference from where it's ...
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Undergraduate thesis credit is too expensive. Can I turn my thesis into 1-2 research papers & publish instead? [closed]
I’m a highly competitive (currently undergrad) student with the end goal of getting a position in academia. I’m about to graduate undergrad this summer; afterwards, I will do a Fulbright research ...
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Allegation of Academic Misconduct
I completed my dissertation a few weeks ago, and submitted it the night before it was due and thus did not check it on turnitin etc for similarity reports. However, on Friday night I received an e-...
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Is it okay to have an additional authors for majority of my work in my undergrad thesis?
Background: My undergrad thesis primarily consists of 4 Methods converted into individual chapters (excluding intro, results, conclusion etc.). One chapter dedicates one specific idea. Each chapter is ...
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BSc thesis proposal: how detailed is the norm
I'm in my last semester of a computer science BSc and need to write my thesis. Highly competitive environment, apparently it's the norm here that BSc theses should try for a publication. In Europe. I ...
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How to deal with advisor writing a thesis chapter for you?
How would you respond if an advisor writes a chapter of your thesis for you and asks you to rewrite what they wrote? Something seems wrong but I can't pinpoint it. It seems like a grey area. What are ...
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My teachers refused my BSCS thesis proposal. Were they legit?
When I was a computer science student at my university, I wanted to delve into the code of operating systems. I was (and still am) attracted to such software and hoped for a course project that ...
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Do the disciplines of my PhD thesis and of my MA thesis have to be identical?
I graduated in history, with a specialization in cultural studies. Now I want to pursue a PhD in literature. Is this possible? What are the potential obstacles and how can I avoid them?
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Should I mention in my thesis that a live demonstration motivated me to implement an algorithm instead of others?
I am currently writing my bachelor thesis, in which I compare different algorithms for solving a specific problem to each other.
Since there are a lot of available published approaches, I did a ...
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Is it a good idea to have really busy advisor? [closed]
I would like to have one of my department professors as an advisor mainly because he is an expert on the field that I am interested in and I'd like to work in.
The problem is that he is a really ...
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How important is it for a professor to direct a thesis?
How important is it for a professor to direct a thesis?
I mean, what can the professor get from it? I know it will help for his/her curriculum, but is it too much?
Is the merit equivalent to the ...
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How to ask a professor to supervise my undergraduate thesis research?
I am second year CompSci student in Europe and in a short while I'll have to start my undergraduate thesis research. The domain I want to research is cloud computing. One of my lecture professors ...
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Evaluating an opportunity for undergrad thesis in computer science
I am a pre-final year undergrad student of computer science. I am interested in getting into research. I have already done some research, but it has not been very formal, and I have not been able to ...
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How important is an (Honors) undergraduate thesis to graduate school admissions?
I'm an undergraduate Honors student in a STEM major, and in the upcoming years I will have the option to complete an Honors thesis in my field, either as a research/data analysis or a literature ...
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How to get a TA for a thesis
I’m writing an academic paper for a B.Sc.
We only have the professor and a PhD student from another university plus random friends and volunteer collaborators helping us. We were not specifically ...
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Are industrial bachelor/master theses worth it?
We had a job fair at our university recently, and there were renowned IT companies like Cisco, for example, who offered us topics for our bachelor/masters theses (I'm double major in physics and math, ...
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How common is it for a professor to agree to review a bachelor thesis outside of his subfield? [closed]
I am asking for a professor to review my undergraduate thesis. I like him a lot and I don't want someone else who is an expert on the field.
How common is for a professor to accept to review my ...
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How to address an author showing replicated results from his paper?
I have replicated a method of interpolation recently proposed by certain author, and I want to tell him that I have done so. I suppose the author is interested in knowing that students are engaged ...
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what would be the level of novelty of an undergraduate thesis? [closed]
I would like to know what would be the level of novelty that one advisor should ask for an undergraduate student in Computer Science whom is aimed to make an Honours or Bachelor thesis?
For what I ...
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How to write a objectives section in undergraduate thesis?
I'm writting my undergraduate statistical thesis proposal. I wrote directly and clearly what I intend to do in my project. However the objectives section was very small, only 6 lines. It would be ...
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Citing in undergraduate thesis
I am presently working on my undergraduate thesis in mathematics. My work consists mainly of analyzing a handful of sources, internalizing proofs and methods and then fleshing out the rough outline ...
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How do undergraduate theses affect master's application?
I am an undergraduate student and have a plan to apply to a master's program.
I am about to start to work on my graduation thesis for graduation at my university.
Question: How does my graduation ...
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How much feedback to give for an undergraduate / master's thesis?
I'm a post-doc who has been the primary supervisor for two master's students this year (computer science, UK). Their theses are due in soon, and I have asked for a draft beforehand so that I can give ...
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Dedication page in undergraduate thesis [duplicate]
Is it considered embarassing if adding a dedication to the family on the second page and giving credit in the acknowledgement section in the end for the support during hardships in an undergraduate ...
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Can theory exposition be a thesis? [closed]
I'm an undergraduate student majoring in math, and ,as my graduation condition requires, I'm planning to write a thesis, but will it be okay to just write an exposition of the theory?
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Page breaking in undergraduate thesis
I am an undergraduate senior. I wonder why people keep doing page breaking in their thesis, like one diagram for one page. Is that for the page count? or just because they have to? Also, I wonder if ...
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What makes a stellar undergraduate thesis?
In mathematics, what distinguishes an exceptional undergraduate thesis for the rest? How do original contributions, accessibility of the topic (ie more or less prerequisites), novelty of the topic, ...
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Sourcing lecture notes instead of publications
I am writing an undergraduate dissertation and I have found some very good information from lecture handouts from other universities.
Will using these lecture notes compared to official publications ...
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How familiar should you be with a topic before assigning it as a thesis to an undergraduate?
I am a postdoctoral researcher in a university where undergraduates have to undertake a diploma thesis in order to finish their studies. My professor says we should put in our lab page some short ...
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I wrote a thesis for my undergraduate degree - it was published but not in a journal. Is it still relevant to cite?
I wrote a thesis involving not-quite-graduate-level research prior to graduating with my undergraduate degree. It was presented at a conference [by another researcher from our lab], and not published ...
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Is there any way to find Donald Knuth's undergrad/master's thesis?
Just what the title says. As far as I know, Knuth's undergrad thesis was so good that the faculty at his university decided to honor him with both an undergrad degree and a master's automatically.
I ...
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How to advise a student looking for an under-grad thesis topic?
There are some good answers here on how to find an masters thesis topic, but I am looking for advice on how to advise undergrad students who are looking for a thesis topic. Finding a thesis topic is a ...
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Is a combined BS/MS in math a good idea for pursuit of PhD?
If I want to continue mathematics into a PhD program, would doing a bachelor's and master's combined program be a good idea? Would I be required to retake some graduate courses in the PhD program? ...
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Replacing tech reports: can we put good undergrad dissertations in arxiv?
My department requires dissertations from all honours students (being England, that's basically all of them). Some of these are extremely good, even though they are written by undergraduates. My ...
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