tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2890898446556439445..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Why your dissertation sucked, or will someday suck.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44259099914490057122011-08-01T01:48:24.101-04:002011-08-01T01:48:24.101-04:00"But on a serious note, the article does poin..."But on a serious note, the article does point to a fairly pervasive problem with the way that advisors and committees handle grad students and their dissertations. I've always tried to be honest, sometimes brutally so (I know, real fucking surprise there, right?) when I've been on a committee. And, of course, I'm always straight with my advisees. But when I'm not the lead Frank Intercoursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392025581401087233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64547213803312205912011-07-27T09:13:54.229-04:002011-07-27T09:13:54.229-04:00I cut mine in half and turned it into a short book...I cut mine in half and turned it into a short book. It still took a hell of a lot of work. As for the reviews, five favorable, one "meh" and one unfavorable. <br /><br />But yeah, I've read dissertations that were not books-in-waiting, but, at best, an article waiting to be distilled from all the text and published.Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058963404500281265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67584381323885931802011-07-27T02:51:46.839-04:002011-07-27T02:51:46.839-04:00So the future is "disserta-blogs" or &qu...So the future is "disserta-blogs" or "disserta-Kindles"? If so, it's going to suck when Professor X's dissertation is wiped out when the hard drive on the server crashes, or some future war features EMP bombs and the US internet is fried by the Chinese, or whatever other dire computer situation people can think of occurs.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-43583108009441960822011-07-26T21:33:45.873-04:002011-07-26T21:33:45.873-04:00He did mention the state of university presses in ...He did mention the state of university presses in his previous column, which is linked to in the first paragraph.<br /><br />Your comment also brings to mind something else he left out, which is that there is a tension between articles and a book project. So if you carve your dissertation chapters into articles, then you are often foreclosing the possibility of a book. Publishers look askance at Angry Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07348431132289025339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-66085098509388781332011-07-26T21:29:06.988-04:002011-07-26T21:29:06.988-04:00Yep my dissertation sucks.
The parts that got bit...Yep my dissertation sucks.<br /><br />The parts that got bites for publication were the ones my committee asked me to cut.<br /><br />I did attempt a book-like project instead of a dissertation, and I think it was a mistake. I'd recommend people write a dissertation that looks like one, squawks like one, and poops like one. Write some articles from it. Then write a book if you have to. My Little Proffiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14843685528001871813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-73003159876142132772011-07-26T20:07:22.849-04:002011-07-26T20:07:22.849-04:00Also, because you touch yourself at night.Also, because you touch yourself at night.Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08353211383898810500noreply@blogger.com