It's not as bad as I thought.
Apr. 16th, 2002 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenOne of the most depressing things on my desk is another student's (completed, accepted) PhD thesis. It's depressing, because it's two and three-quarter inches thick - I just measured it - and comes to a little five hundred 500 A4 pages.
My thesis will come to nine chapters, plus miscellaneous bitties, appendices, etc etc. I've written the first three (give or take revisions), and altogether they come to about twenty pages. That's without diagrams, and I need to fill in references, and no doubt the people checking 'em will think of things to add (although so far, their comments have only resulted in shortening it...) But still, it feels like very little - I've been resisting the urge to pad shamelessly.
Then I looked at Helen's thesis again, and remembered something important: I get to double-space it :-)
Still going to be a lot shorter than hers was. Must try to market this as 'highly concentrated value'
My thesis will come to nine chapters, plus miscellaneous bitties, appendices, etc etc. I've written the first three (give or take revisions), and altogether they come to about twenty pages. That's without diagrams, and I need to fill in references, and no doubt the people checking 'em will think of things to add (although so far, their comments have only resulted in shortening it...) But still, it feels like very little - I've been resisting the urge to pad shamelessly.
Then I looked at Helen's thesis again, and remembered something important: I get to double-space it :-)
Still going to be a lot shorter than hers was. Must try to market this as 'highly concentrated value'
