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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Non-EU student wanting to start job right before submitting Masters thesis [migrated]
I am a student in Munich and in the last stage of my thesis. I got a job (in IT) and my contract starts from June (this date has already been pushed from April and hence no further changes can happen)....
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Authorship disagreement between PhD student and supervisor
I completed my PhD thesis two years ago. My thesis subject was supported as a project by my university scientific research committee. In this project my supervisor was principal investigator and I was ...
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Is it acceptable to reference a talk in a thesis?
Sometimes respected members of a research community may say something interesting and pertinent in a talk, but the nugget of insight might never make it into a peer-reviewed publication. Nevertheless ...
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how to deal with unengaged supervisor MSc thesis?
I am MSc student, data-science, and a senior student - I mean, I invested on a degree in later age of my life with desire to get into research roles.
I was assigned a supervisor for my MSc Thesis who ...
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Naming a Lemma In Math Thesis
In my pure math thesis I have an important lemma and I want to name it. The statement is quite technical so I will omit quite a lot of details.
I want to call this lemma “the adding lemma”. 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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My Korean professor and Korean lab members threaten me to give my research to them. Please advise me
I obtained my research degree under rather abusive circumstances from a Korean university. My research work involved a data set from a company. During my studies, I presented my work at a conference ...
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I accidentally put my signature in the examiner's signature field in my thesis [closed]
I accidentally put my signature in the examiner's signature field in my thesis. Give me advice if you have any professor of B.Sc.
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How soon should I begin my introduction for a PhD by publication?
I'm in year 2 of my PhD, and have a fairly good idea of what papers I'm planning to get out of it by year 3. Is it too early to start writing the full introduction to the PhD? Or is it a good idea to ...
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Made a huge mistake in my bachelor's thesis
I recently submitted my thesis and also defended it successfully. But then I found mistakes in the statistical analyses of my research.
When I was doing my bachelor's there was no biostatistics in my ...
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Do I need to sign ex-advisor's PhD dissertation?
This post is an extension of this previous situation that I discussed a few years ago here: Supervisor has said some very disgusting things online, should I pull my name from our paper?
That advisor ...
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APA 7th edition. Page number of direct quote vs referenced in-text citation
I'm stating a direct quote using APA 7th edition standards that is re-quoted by other authors. I have a page number for the quoted statement, but then I have the referenced in-text citations that ...
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As an outsider, how do I get academics to discuss my idea with me? [duplicate]
I got a physics degree nearly 30 years ago. My goal was to understand general relativity and quantum field theory, but at graduation I still could not understand them. I then embarked on a career as a ...
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Can I use someone else's research problem and questions in my dissertation after receiving the permission from original author?
I am writing a dissertation in English philology. I would like to use a questionnaire that has been already published by some researchers. I received a permission from original author, but I found ...
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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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Found mistake in analyzing experimental data after submitting PhD thesis; what should I do?
While flipping through my thesis to look up details in writing a postdoc application, I realized that I messed up my reaction rate quantification of one protein covalently bonding with another on a ...
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What do you look for in a methodology section of masters thesis vs. PhD thesis, respective academic paper?
My field of research is finance. The methodology I apply, however, is much closer to economics.
Research papers tend to be very brief when introducing the methodology. That is, they often assume a ...
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When is a student's failure to pay their editor an ethics violation?
Some years ago, I was stiffed for $100, but I let it go and took steps in my business model to be sure it never happened again. However, my colleague, is being stiffed for $600, an amount that is ...
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Advice to get new PhD opportunities
I have a master's degree in Mathematics in a specialty X. I got a scholarship to do a PhD thesis in a specialty Y in another country. I have started working on my thesis and I have devoted most of my ...
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How detailed should I be in my bachelor thesis about data visualization and xai about the performance of specific models? [closed]
I have another question regarding my bachelor's thesis.
I built a data visualization and explainable ai tool.
Now for that, I have integrated some basic machine-learning models for users to interact ...
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Should I cite open source software libraries I used to create my bachelor thesis project? [duplicate]
I am finishing my bachelor's thesis, and I built an explainable ai and data visualization tool.
For that, I used libraries like d3.js, svelte, tailwindcss, docker, nginx, fastapi, pytorch, tensorflow ...
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Is it unprofessional to add illustrations to a master’s thesis?
Sometimes I see articles, even high-quality ones, use illustrations (e.g. imagine a simple Powerpoint depiction of a certain process).
I'm now writing my thesis and found some interesting ...
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How to deal with page number requirements in a thesis?
The faculty in which I write my thesis demands students to write 60 pages (+/- 10%).
This, however, is contrary to all the guidelines about academic writing online (see e.g. Writing tips for PhD ...
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Convention on embedding three pairs of items in a single sentence using parentheses
I am writing in a description of three items in a thesis on Particle Physics, and I can do it in one line in theory. If there were just two items, e.g. A and B, which produce results C and D, I could ...
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After almost three years of research, I am at my wits' end. What should I do now?
After I got my masters, I started my PhD project three years ago. My start coincided with the start of the pandemic. I spent many many months all on my own with little to no help and no equipment at ...
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Can my supervisor publish my thesis including another first author in her group?
I'm in very weird situation. The manuscript of my work was submitted for publication without my consent, and I am certainly opposed to the author order, because I am the second author of the article ...
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What is the fastest way of completing my post viva thesis correction edits?
I have written my thesis using Word and Endnote. I have three months of corrections. Any general tips based on previous experience on how to streamline the edits would be welcome.
The document is too ...
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How can I state my collaborations in my thesis?
During my PhD I had the opportunity to collaborate with people with many different affiliations.
Now that I am ending my Thesis I would like to read sum hint on how to compactly mention them, their ...
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To what extent should papers from a PhD dissertation form a coherent whole?
Currently, I'm a few months in a PhD track on the applications of process mining to the archival sciences. The idea of the research project is to devise algorithms that would enable government ...
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Adding all entries in bibliography of a research paper automatically other than using Excite and wos [duplicate]
Every research paper had a bibliography at the end carrying various earlier research papers, books, web articles, etc. The user has to click on each one separately and then, through Google or Semantic ...
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Is describing a different method in the same format as a published paper considered plagiarism?
I've honestly been losing a bit of sleep over one of the sections in my materials chapters because I think it has some similarity to text from a published paper. To compel myself to write this section ...
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Correcting mistakes in PhD thesis that examiners missed
I finished my thesis defense and my examiners recommended minor corrections, all of which are based in the lit review and results chapters. However, after they approved the corrections I made, I ...
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How much implementation detail to include in PhD thesis
If I developed a library during my PhD (in physics, not CS), but the topic is focused on what I used it for, rather than the code development itself, how much implementation detail should I give in my ...
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Is it normal for a PhD thesis' methods chapter to show a high similarity index on iThenticate?
I'm just about to submit my thesis to the library and after putting my entire materials and methods chapter to iThenticate, I found quite a bit of overlap with previously published papers from my lab (...
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If I saw a sentence, kept the words in a certain order to make it more succinct, is it plagiarism?
This is a sentence I read from a previous student's thesis:
Chemical products were measured by loading x μL of reaction A on a gel
(3-10% w/v, depending on your need and availability of machine)
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Is it cheating if I get paid to write simulation code for a grad student's thesis?
A grad student has offered to hire me to write simulation code of a published paper and they said they need the simulation for their master thesis. Is it considered cheating if I accept the project?
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Publishing master's thesis
I would like to write a peer-reviewed publication from my master's thesis (in mathematics).
I don't know how to ask my supervisor, and actually, I don't know what to ask.
He suggested the initial ...
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Thesis: How to mark variables from software in text? [duplicate]
I am writing a thesis about a web application that I developed. I sometimes need to reference a variable or type from the code. This happens quite a lot in the maintenance guide that I am also writing....
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My supervisor is suggesting I will fail my PhD, is this possible?
I am a final-year PhD student in Canada studying cybersecurity. During my PhD, I did not have very good supervision. I told them I wanted to defend soon. However, one of my supervisors keeps on ...
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Master thesis biochemistry
I am looking for a topic for my master's thesis in the field of biochemistry, but there is a problem, how can I make sure that the topic I have chosen is not repeated? Because there are many sites, ...
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Is it Okay to add another person (except the supervisor, advisor, and the student) to the paper extracted from master's thesis?
I am writing a paper extracted from my master's thesis. A friend of mine helps me a lot during this process. Is it Okay to add his name to my paper?
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Can I use abbreviations for some chapters while using the full word for others in a thesis?
I'm writing a thesis now and I would like to know if it is wrong to introduce an abbreviation in the first or second chapter and then in another chapter use the full version. I want to use the full ...
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Refencing own previous experiment work in literature survey
A senior of mine and I worked on a research topic. He contributed to most of the baseline works(say experiments A and B), and I continued with some more baseline work along with many additional ...
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Is it common that a supervisor doesn't even read their students code?
My friend is very frustrated, he realized recently that his supervisor never read the code he was working on for the last year for his PhD.
As he described the situation, his supervisor doesn't seem ...
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Where to put the appendices in a paper based thesis?
I am writing my paper based PhD thesis, i.e., a collection of papers surrounded by a common introduction and preliminary section. Each of my papers has a relatively long (with respect to the overall ...
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References to author or authors in PhD thesis or published paper
In a chapter of my finished PhD thesis I have written "...to the best of the author's knowledge..." several times as a reference to me. Now my supervisor and I would like to publish this ...
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How should a faculty deal with the problem of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated texts?
For many years one of the main problems for academic essays and BA/MA/PhD theses was plagiarism. However with the recent advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can write high quality texts (e.g. ...
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Is it ok to use several pages of material from a single source to write my thesis? I will cite the source of course
There are very limited sources on the topic I am working on, so I have used quite a bit of information from a single source and I have cited it. That source has citations in its body and I have cited ...
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Does the theme and field of activity in the process of working on PhD give freedom or impose more restrictions?
I was thinking about what kind of future a person can build who has gone through the defense of a dissertation and received a PhD.
On this part of the path, the young scientist managed to work in some ...
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Can I use English terminology in my German-language thesis?
I am currently writing my mathematics master's thesis (in topology) in my native language, German. Most of the literature is in English and some of the words are hard to translate. Is it ok to mix ...
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