MA candidate, THISCLOSE to finishing my thesis, so close i could almost shout... but still with a decent amount of work to do ( Read more... )

While part of this is a venting in hopes of feeling better, it's also a word of warning to those who have yet to begin the thesis process. It's also an asking for advice.

( My Asinine Adviser Odyssey )

So here's my dilemma ( Read more... )

I'm having issues. =/ (cross posted in applyingtograd )

I'm in the MA English program at Clemson and we have an option of doing a thesis or nonthesis track.  Now the thesis track only involves taking 8 classes which seems shoddy to me, because you can be finished after a year but then have to hang around for orals and thesis dense.

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So here's my problem. I'm only in my second semester of my history M.A. program, and I know that I need to start thinking about my thesis. I would like to start at least preliminary stuff, even though I won't be actually be taking the thesis seminar class until next semester ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a brief overview of the 19th century for my upcoming comp. I'm focusing on 19th c France and would like to find a volume that covers both French developments and the place of France in the world at large. I'm treating le conte fantastique for my thesis and have been researching the place of the conte amidst Enlightenment thought, ( Read more... )

I'm compiling a list of revision methods. I have a lot of common/popular methods, but I don't want to leave out something that is creative, unique or that just plain works. For instance, one method I've heard of is to write a draft without an introduction, then take your last paragraph and make it the first, then rewrite the conclusion. I've also ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm new here. My grad school situation is a bit unusual because I am getting my MA via distance learning (MA in Humanities with a History concentration, from California State University at Dominguez Hills - http://www.csudh.edu/hux/). So I am not getting all of the same experiences that the rest of you probably have, but I'm sure many of them ( Read more... )