Comments | beboots: My honour's thesis is progressing!

beboots

My honour's thesis is progressing!

Mar 12, 2011 15:00

Good news, everyone! I'm actually FINALLY starting to feel somewhat comfortable with my thesis! I've been working on it for... way too long. Technically I began in October or November of 2009, when I took a 300-level history of American medicine class with my current Honour's supervisor, Professor Susan Smith. I wrote a short, 12 page paper on ( Read more... )

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kuiskata March 12 2011, 23:06:53 UTC

Yay! *cheers*

Good luck with the award, too!

but when asked by the professor how long they thought it would take to write 50 pages, one guy answered: "two weeks."

*facepalm* Only if it's NaNoWriMo and quality doesn't count. (Granted, I have written ten-page papers in two days before, but still. 10 pages is easier to maintain overall coherency.)

beboots March 13 2011, 05:10:13 UTC

I know, right? I mean, it's the longest paper I've ever written, and I'm having difficulty making sure that there's one argument running the whole way through... I'll definitely get you to read it sometime. :)

But still, at the very least mine will look much more polished in comparison? I mean, I know that they've done a lot of good research, and I'm sure that they know what they're talking about, but I doubt mine will have many typos and they'll be running themes and it will all look very lovely. I'm also the kind of person to read my papers aloud to see how they sound, which I find works well for getting it clear, coherent and, well, sounding nice. ;) I think that mine will look noticeably more polished. I even have the chance to put it away for a few days then come back to it with fresh eyes, which is always helpful. :)

*high fives*

kuiskata March 14 2011, 01:15:29 UTC

I'll definitely get you to read it sometime.

From what you've said, it certainly sounds interesting. Please say after this term's over, though?

Oh, exactly. A shorter paper, you can manage to get it out quickly and have it looking halfway presentable. That's exponentially harder with a 50-page paper.

:D

kuiskata March 14 2011, 23:24:41 UTC

As I promised: Secrets, by Vorabiza.

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dayadhvam_triad March 14 2011, 19:30:25 UTC

LOLOL TWO WEEKS FOR 50 PAGES? That person needs to be uber-efficient about his writing, then...

GOOD LUCK! You've reached the page-count so no matter what you've got your materials down and whatnot, and you can definitely pull through. \o/!

beboots March 14 2011, 22:02:02 UTC

I know! I mean, I've written that much before (in really poor quality) for National Novel Writing Month, but this is your THESIS, man. As the professor who was mediating our discussion said, it's going to be set in stone and will always be on your file. You want it as polished as possible, you know?

dayadhvam_triad March 15 2011, 17:34:06 UTC

EXACTLY! I can't imagine writing so much in such a short period of time. D:

When did you start really working on your thesis? I'm thinking of writing a thesis during the next school year, but I've not really started to think about my topic yet...

beboots March 16 2011, 00:09:58 UTC

Good question! I had to write a historiography paper last year at this time, which forced me to read a lot on my topic and essentially talk about the historical field surrounding my subject over the past half-century or so. That also gave me an idea of what's been done... and got a lot of research out of the way. Also, mining the bibliographies of those books and papers for primary documents = SO USEFUL ( ... )

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