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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If undergraduate Honor's Thesis printed/shelved in Alma-metar's library & checked out a number of times -- does it count as "published" on a CV?
As an undergraduate, I joined the Honor's Program, and completed the program by conducting original research and writing an Honor's Thesis. That Honor's Thesis has since been printed and shelved in ...
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Transforming an MA thesis for publication
I am attempting to transform the content of my MA thesis into a piece of academic writing which can be published. This is the first time I have done this, and I am concerned that some of my main ...
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How do I tell my adviser that group meetings may be too time-consuming in my last year of my PhD?
I am finishing up my PhD this year and my adviser has recently recruited two new PhDs to our research group. I am the adviser's first student. Up until this year, we have had consistent individual ...
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How to mention analysis tools/functions developed during a thesis
I am just about to finish my Master thesis. During the analysis, I wrote two functions which simplify certain tasks and put them into a R package. Furthermore, I extended an existing R package by ...
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Will my supervisor also mark my MA dissertation? How will this be fair?
I am wondering, because she is the only one in the department who is specialised in the area I worked in. But then also she worked with me, so she will recognise the things I've written - apart from ...
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What would be the most appropriate measure I should take if I feel that I am failing to submit my MSc thesis within deadline?
In February-2016, I have undertaken my thesis. That was the topic proposed by my supervisor on my request. I started to work on the project and finding that I am actually short of various topics/...
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Changing my supervisor before starting
I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science. I asked a supervisor for thesis and he must still send me the first materials for starting. The actual supervisor hasn't yet even told me exactly ...
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Commissioning artist to make a figure
I have the idea to commission a local artist to make an artistic version of a couple of figures I often use for presentations, and that I would probably use for my thesis cover. The figures does not ...
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Can external thesis examiner object to inclusion of so many unwanted co authors in published papers?
My friend is working on material science and he published 3 papers in very good SCI index journals. In all papers he is first author and second is his supervisor and rest are co-authors like incharge ...
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Can a committee reject thesis after approving it
Is it possible that thesis committee first signs off on a thesis and later discovers some weakness (not plagiarism or academic dishonesty, but weak sections or incomplete tables) and rejects it. I am ...
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What should be included in a disclaimer about the omission of gender-neutral language in a bachelor's thesis?
I'm working on my bachelor's thesis to get my bachelor's degree at a German university. I am not sure about the situation in other countries, but German universities are very sensitive when it comes ...
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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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Should mathematical symbols and equations be included in a word count?
I am currently in the process of finishing up my Master's thesis which requires me to disclose the exact word count.
My thesis contains a lot of mathematical symbols and equations and I am not sure ...
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Text between a Topic and Subtopic in a Thesis
I wonder, which one of these structurings is to prefer for a thesis.
To write text between a topic and subtopic, e.g.
A. Main Topic
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ...
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Transforming the PhD thesis to a paper to publish and iThenticate
I want my PhD thesis findings to be presented as a scientific pager and get it published in a journal which uses "iThenticate" as plagiarism detection software. When I present my findings, it's ...
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Professional editing of a thesis
I am a professional freelance editor. I edited a thesis and subsequently the candidate has refused to pay my fee. Can I claim intellectual property rights over those editing changes and require the ...
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Can I copy my Thesis code from TextBook
The code work for my master thesis is copied from a textbook.
Is it legal to copy the entire code from the textbook?
Can I write in my documentation that this project is solely developed by me?
I ...
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Is it normal for a PhD candidate to be dissatisfied with their PhD thesis topic, if the field is not hot?
I am a 2nd year PhD student in Germany. I am working on computational mechanics. It is on modeling the mechanical behavior of a composite coating. My background is metallurgical engineering. When I ...
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Appendix subsections: Group by content or topic
In my Master's thesis I have a lot of figures, tables, and code which is referenced in the text and should go into the appendix. Apart from that, I don't really know how to structure the appendix.
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Proper name for a new method
We developed a new method to calculate a characteristic value from measurement data. In my thesis I call the existing method 'Original Method'. However, I am not sure how to name our new method. '...
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Does the bad (broad) master's thesis title have significant impact on graduate admissions?
My Master's Thesis title will be something like "The clinical use of robots for individuals with X disorder" but I was actually researching perception of individuals with X disorder towards robots in ...
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Repeating sections within the same paper
I'm editing a PhD dissertation and found that the author reused sections of his paper such as Methodology in Chapter 1 and Chapter 4. It seems that his Chapter 1 is a synthesis of the succeeding 3 ...
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master thesis structure
My question is about master thesis structure according to MIT Thesis Format.
I am working on a computer system that comprises of several components. The focus of the research is how to implement the ...
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What are the expectations of bioinformatics Masters students?
Country: Looking for answers for US/Canada/UK/Germany, ideally Canada.
Subject: bioinformatics
I am starting a bioinformatics MSc degree in a biology department of my university (no bioinformatics ...
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A Statement in a Thesis Proposal
In a paper an author developed a weight function. I am doing M.S Thesis and trying to incorporate the weight function in another function. In my thesis proposal if I mention
We will incorporate ...
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Make the readers [supervisor] understand the effort I put on data construction in an academically sound way
In my Master thesis I use an alternative database, namely histdata.com which provides free tick by tick data (kinda rough data that need a lot of coding to be transformed but free). To the best of my ...
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Public archives for PhD thesis
I am aware that PhD theses can be self archived in university site, personal webpage or sites like researchgate (ePrint Archive for PhD Dissertation in the Social Sciences).
I am not really fond of ...
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Discovered a paper very late into my research - what now?
I am currently writing my thesis and am quite far already. However, I have discovered a paper now which troubles me quite a bit, as it pretty much destroys everything I am arguing for (and very ...
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(How) can I evaluate, whether a field has a future or not?
I'm new here, so I hope my question fits in:
I am trying to decide where I should do my master thesis, and since I am considering an academic career, this could be a fist step towards the field I ...
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A methods chapter for a PhD thesis comprising multiple closely tied studies?
You'll notice I have refrained from using "Phd by publication" here, but I think my question might well apply to a PhD by publication, and am happy for my PhD to reside under this category.
Basically ...
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Believe in yourself or your supervisor for your own PhD thesis when you feel it is ready for submission?
I am a PhD student. However I published more top-ranked journal articles than my supervisors within a 3 year period of time. As I am becoming more and more experienced, I feel uncomfortable whenever I ...
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Is it okay to ask the professor to let another student continue my Master's thesis topic next year?
I am a Master's student in an Engineering discipline and I don't think the nature of my Master's thesis topic can be finished in time, realistically speaking (GUI development) and I have a month left. ...
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In Sweden, can a supervisor ask his PhD student to provide a private future work list of his thesis?
Recently, I faced a new academic phenomenon that a high level researcher informed me about. I am writing a potential reasoning of the phenomenon:
From a legal point of view, PhD is similar to a ...
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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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Does a supervisor have to read a thesis of his PhD student
A friend of mine who is doing a PhD has finished writing the first draft of her thesis. In her school, it's a common practice that a supervisor will read the first draft and then provide feedback and ...
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How to describe a situation in which you "throw things at the wall and see what sticks" in a master thesis
For context, i'll describe the problem. I'm working in chromatography, and the first part of the work was to do TLC experiments to narrow mobile phase compositions for separation of valuable ...
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Asking professors in other Universities for comments on research
If you are working on an individual research paper with the help of your advisor (e.g. M.Sc Thesis), what is the academic convention on asking for comments from other professors? For example, if your ...
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Freedom in acknowledgments section of dissertation - writing in native language
I am currently finishing writing my MSc thesis. I am considering separating the acknowledgments section in two:
Personal acknowledgments (sorted as advisor(s)/family/SO/friends)
Acknowledging ...
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Explaining inconsistencies in literature in thesis and/or supporting information of journal article
I've found a model which explains my results excellently. However, the actual equation and parameters of the model have been interpreted and treated differently by different authors, sometimes leading ...
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6 months is all I have, what would be your method to finish your dissertation? [closed]
I will ask this question trying to be simple, but hoping to be understood on the complexities of my problem. I have looked for questions alike and my answer is not in any of them or, combined, the ...
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Mid-stage PhD student lost motivation [duplicate]
I'm a PhD student in literature who is nearly half way through my third year.
Recently (last month or two) I feel like I've lost all motivation to work on my thesis. Instead of treating it like a ...
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Is an Executive Doctorate different from a typical PhD with respect to the level of assistance that is permitted on the dissertation?
I began tutoring an Executive Doctorate student last fall in a class that he was taking. After that class ended, he was able to begin working on his dissertation and wanted my help for it as well.
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Can research paper information be used in thesis writing?
I am writing my master thesis. Can I put my research paper data in this thesis? The research paper had been accepted in IEEE conference. Is it ethical to put research paper data as it is. As this ...
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Consequences of a master thesis with errors
I finished my master thesis 6 years ago, since then I gained a lot of experience on my field and also in academia. I can say that in that time I was a "child" , very inexperienced. I think that also ...
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How to design and structure a technical/programming Thesis
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis. The scope of this thesis will be approximately 25-30k words/80-100 pages of content.
We have only written literature reviews during the course of studies so ...
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Does it matter that your dissertation has been submitted when you apply to a postdoc position?
I'm finishing my fourth year of a Ph.D. in mathematics. I have enough for a dissertation, and by the end of the summer, I will probably have enough for a very nice dissertation. And I plan to finish ...
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How to deal with grammatically incorrect suggestions from my advisor on master's thesis?
I'm writing my thesis in English. English is neither my or my advisor's mother tongue. I'm now doing some corrections that were suggested. Some of them refer to the content of my thesis and some of ...
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Will an off-topic Masters hurt my chances of a PhD place?
I have just completed the third year of an integrated master's degree (a three-year undergraduate degree plus an additional year of study at a master's degree level, with the final degree being an ...
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Use of theses after their completion
Can a student expect their completed thesis – undergraduate or master’s – to be used by the supervisor once in a while after its completion? Or are they mostly just stored on some thesis shelf?
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Is it ok for an applied mathematician to research a topic that she has personal experience with?
Would this idea be too sensitive / too much information / generally a bad idea?
For example, I have a friend who is doing her computational biology PhD at a strong U.S. program, and her main research ...