Questions tagged [thesis]
Questions related to initiation, preparation, editing and presentation of a research thesis. A Thesis is a long research report including personal research conclusions and outputs. A Thesis must include personal research and the proper citations from other publications in the research topic.
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Made potentially unauthorized copies or adaptations of copyrighted test material. Can I keep the data I have collected for my dissertation?
I am a fourth year doctoral candidate in Experimental Psychology who recently finished data collection for my dissertation. I recently discovered something that may be a potential issue, but I am not ...
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Copyright issues and Self-Plagiarism in the PhD Thesis
Part of my doctoral thesis is based on three articles I wrote during my PhD. My supervisor suggested that I directly use part of the articles I had written (the part related to the data analysis and ...
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Is it worth telling a PhD about his manuscript typos and mathematical mistakes once already published?
In the scope of the first weeks of a postdoctoral position in a company where one has the task to read a thesis manuscript written in this same company, suppose that one finds typographical mistakes (...
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Found critical errors in my master‘s thesis after officially submitting
I submitted my master‘s thesis a few days ago. The official deadline is next Friday.
Today I spotted some serious issues in my thesis. In particular, in my main theorem and the main proposition that ...
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Publishing without supervisor (sidelining Ph.D. supervisor)
Hope you are doing well. I am a third year PhD student. I have very good relationship with my phd supervisor. However; I am secretly dissapointed at him. I am listing the reasons one by one:
My ...
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Make last minutes amendments to bachelors thesis or not? [closed]
I am currently finishing up my bachelors thesis. I am writing about an application I developed in a specific setting, so there are not many comparable works out there (that are known to me).
Since the ...
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My Master Thesis and job opportunities [closed]
My major is history and I am doing my master thesis on an international (x and y empire's historical relations) issue. The question is a unique issue for my country and there's no work about it. So ...
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How do you write out mathematical formulae in a thesis [closed]
I am writing out my thesis at the moment and I am using Machine Learning Algorithms. Let's say I am using Support Vector Machine. I am not necessarily re-inventing the algorithm nor am I implementing ...
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Can a PhD Candidate Correct and Reprint Their Thesis After Submission/Print but Before Defense?
[Even though this question is specifically about Sweden, but might apply to other countries too]
If a doctoral candidate has already submitted and printed their dissertation, but discovers errors in ...
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Dilemma when my supervisor isn't necessarily a mathematician
I am a mathematics master's student. I intentionally decided to chose a thesis supervised by a PhD student with a non-mathematical, but pretty quantitative background, as the project is very ...
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Problems evaluating a system with unexplainable results
I am writing a master's thesis in a Machine Learning domain.
I created a system and I am now testing it.
I designed most of my system while validating on benchmark set A. The results are good and ...
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How do I salvage my thesis and move on with my life
So I am a MS student somewhere on the east coast US as an international student. I have a rough draft of my MS thesis.
I have been struggling really badly with motivation. I feel like I am able to the ...
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I ghosted a professor for two months. Not the first time this happens. Facing mental health issues but trying to recover. what to do now?
I am a delayed graduation facing (failed some subjects before, repeating a semester right now) 5th year integrated masters' student in a STEM field.
I spoke to this professor about working a master's ...
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Publish an article as part of the dissertation, even though it has already been published in the journal
I am about to publish my dissertation via the university library, which is mandatory according to the doctoral regulations of my university.
I have written a total of 4 articles as part of my ...
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What is considered plagiarism when writing a literature review paper
Taking someone else's experimental data and passing it for your own is objectively wrong. I would not argue with that. But what about when you are writing a review paper about some topic that doesn't ...
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How to handle well-known english acronyms and names for an abstract in the local language?
I have to provide a translated version of my abstract in my local country language. There are some concepts / names / acronyms that are also in my country language mostly used in english, for instance,...
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Thesis Data Collection Mistake
I am currently undergoing my psychology thesis (4th year) in Australia, and have just finished data collection. I have just realised that between myself and my group, 2/3 of the questionnaires used ...
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How to paraphrase and cite correctly a large thesis section with only one or two textbook sources?
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I have developed a program, which relies on a pretty common and well studied statistical method. It seems sensible to provide an extensive summary on the mathematical basis of this algorithm (...
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What do I do if my thesis is stolen
I made a serious mistake. I submitted my thesis on 28th Sept with the deadline being the following day. And because I was nervous about it, I was wasn’t confident with the way I wrote the result ...
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After switching PhD supervisor, can I get credit for the work I did?
My PhD supervisor abandoned me after 1 year. I did a massive amount of work, but now cannot continue working on that project anymore.
The supervisor cut all ties with me and there is no turning back, ...
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Is it unethical to change the affiliation of a published chapter from my PhD thesis after candidature?
I completed my PhD research at the University, submitted my thesis draft for examination, and began working at a company co-founded by my PhD supervisor. Before completing my thesis examination, I ...
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Which date should I print as submission date on the title of my thesis when I send it by post to the deanery?
Tomorrow I will print my thesis. On the title page, I have to write
Submitted on: xx.xx.xxxx
Typically, that is not an issue if you go to the deanery by foot and submit the thesis. However, I will ...
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phd student not happy with the grade
I am a Ph.D. student, and I took a course with my supervisor last semester. Our class consisted of only three people, and our grades have been released. My grade is 91 out of 100 in the Canadian ...
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In my 2nd year of PhD, and I feel like a technician
I am in my 2nd year of a neurosceince PhD in europe. The project had a very clear vision even before I had applied. This meant that I came into a project which was well defined and planned with many ...
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Can my supervisor publish a relevant work to my PhD without citing my published dissertation?
I was a PhD student at an american university, and I graduated last year. After graduation, there are few papers that were sent for publications before my graduation. Because of an authorship dispute ...
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masters thesis supervisor hands-on importance?
TLDR: how important is having a hands-on supervisor for my masters thesis?
I recently started a one-year MA in sociology at a large uni in Europe (after having attended a SLAC for undergrad).
My ...
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Can a social sciences doctoral thesis be just 65k words long? [closed]
I am nearing the end of writing up my doctoral thesis. I only have the discussion to write and the introduction and conclusion to tidy up. My word count is currently 55k. Even with going back and ...
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I put my Bachelor thesis (the text of it) on GitHub, and my mentor asked me to delete it. However, my repository has been forked. What now?
I put my Bachelor thesis on GitHub (both the text and the code itself). Today, my mentor found it via Googling (?) and contacted me about it. He said that he is afraid that DABAR (the Croatian ...
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Are dissertations always submitted to the school library?
I am trying to confirm if an individual actually graduated with a PhD from a university at around 2010. At my university, the PhD theses are archived in the university library. In some cases, the ...
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What to do when finding errors in my submitted bachelor thesis? [closed]
I have just submitted my bachelor thesis. However, I found right now in total two mistakes. One is that a table is missing, although this table is not that important. The other is one sentence ends in ...
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Thesis Defense Bare Pass, Issues with Supervisor [closed]
For my Masters degree (MSc), I completed a thesis with my supervisor. I edited and cleaned the thesis to the point where my supervisor only had minor comments and polished it to the best of my ability....
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Master thesis report submitted for official record is different to the report graded by my supervisor
I am doing a master's study in a German university. I had some setbacks during my master thesis project's lab work. This delayed the time I had available to write my report later on. The setbacks ...
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How to add Copyright Notice Code?
I have got a paper accepted in a conference, they have told me add a copyright notice code at the bottom of page 1. This is my first time in conference and I am confused whether the code is same for ...
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If I find an error in my archived doctoral thesis, should I immediately tell my advisor or wait to see if it will be published before doing so?
I recently found a mistake in my thesis while submitting a postdoc application. I realized that I messed up my reaction rate quantification of one protein where I assigned too large of an intensity ...
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Are publications strictly required to obtain a PhD thesis?
I am a PhD student in electrical engineering and I am writing my first article, probably for a Q1 journal. My question is the following: in order to get a PhD degree, do you need to have one or ...
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Similar working paper by senior professors, should I worry?
I am a PhD student who just finished my master’s degree. I had a master’s thesis which can be further developed during my PhD studies, but recently I found that some senior professors are also working ...
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Is it ok to get an external help for PHD dissertation?
I study architecture. I came up with a research topic where I needed to create a tool to test it with a sample. I have all the necessary data, however, I need a programmer to code the tool for the ...
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What should I do about a long delay for nominating referees for my PhD dissertation?
I have submitted my dissertation for a PhD degree some 6 months ago to my department but my advisor has yet to complete the examiner-nomination procedure. For this delay in completing the procedure ...
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How early can I submit a postdoc application in the course of my Ph.D.?
I am a finishing CS Ph.D. student (5 months to go). I applied to postdocs positions and I feel like it is a bit early to do so. What would the process resemble in this case?
Do they wait for your ...
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How to tell if a Master's thesis topic is stale/outdated/useless
I am a master's student majoring in a natural science subject. I spoke to a professor in my university about a master's thesis last year. Unfortunately I was unable to interact with him for the rest ...
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Do I have to re-cite sources in the conclusion that I already cited in the main part of my masters thesis?
I am currently writing the conclusion of my master's thesis. In the main part I have mostly explained an economic model and tried to make it more understandable. If I now summarize the findings in the ...
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Thesis corrections didn't save
I have been a bit "haunted" by something that happened to me in graduate school. After submitting my MA thesis my advisor and the second reader corrected lots of typographical errors. I ...
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Can Bachelor's Thesis include online forum entries as references?
I am currently writing my bachelors thesis at a german University of applied science. My topic is somewhat unusual as it focusses on the development of a tool for Minecraft-Servers.
I want to lay down ...
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Same objectives and hypotheses but different data sets in writing PhD thesis
Can one use the same objectives and hypotheses in their PhD thesis taken from another PhD thesis but different data sets? (Even the state is different.)
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Does generating a DOI for my thesis using ResearchGate prevent me from publishing it afterwards in a journal?
I'm considering generating a DOI for my thesis, but I wondered if this would be a problem if I wanted to write a paper out of it.
Theoretically, the paper would not be exactly the same as my thesis, ...
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I duplicated a paragraph in my master's thesis. How bad is this and what to do now?
I wrote my master thesis in Germany and submitted it on time. After checking I notice some small typing errors and some problems with my references (minor ones, not a problem really). I just saw a ...
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Feeling lost with my master's thesis in a new field
Two years ago I started my master's course in mechatronics engineering in Italy. After one year of classes I applied for a double degree program proposed by the university. According to this program I ...
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On the presentation of results during the viva exam
In a few weeks time I will be having my viva exam and I was wondering of a few things regarding the presentation in which I will be presenting four algorithms from four of my published papers.
Since ...
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Someone I don't know contributed to my program on GitHub. Can I still present that program as my Bachelor thesis?
I am a third-year computer engineering student at a university in Croatia.
In 2020, my Computer Architecture professor asked me to make an assembler and an emulator for PicoBlaze that would run in any ...
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Software implementation / quantitative research for MSc thesis did not go well
I've been working on my MSc thesis in creative AI, and chose to research a novel form of game AI, with three seperate strands/use-cases, all of which are novel.
I achieved straight A's in this course, ...
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