Dissertation Outline - Check
Posted 05-02-2010 at 07:50 PM by EmmyNoether
Despite pushing it off for the last 4 days, I make good on my commitments... well, at least when I feel accountable to other people. The blog is doing it's trick! Today, I finished finessing and streamlining all the details out of my proofs that I had been working on the last couple of days. Amazing how there are always more upon more details that need to be worked out - sort of like cleaning: You pick up the clothes and the trash to find that you need to vacuum, which you do, only to find that the quarter centimeter of dust you hadn't noticed is disgustingly obtrusive. Yes, I just compared picking apart proofs to cleaning house - only day 4 and my OCD comes out.
In addition to that document, I did in fact write my dissertation outline. I did not know where to start, as it is my first and (so far) only dissertation. Also, I had naively assumed that my adviser would have contributed somewhat to my outline as he had to that of my male colleague. So, like any first step in a research project in this era, I googled "dissertation outline." The amazing thing was not that I found nothing helpful online, but that I found the following site: http://www.professays.com/dissertations/ I mean, here is a site that allows you to pay someone to write your dissertation! First of all, I feel that it is a bit disingenuous for them to write on their page: "Dissertation process is completely different academic project, unlike anything you have done before; it is an independent and self-directed process which requires not only profound knowledge but excellent writing skills as well." So, what is their point? Here are the reasons why someone qualifies to obtain what could arguably be the most difficult degree in higher education - let's relieve you of that!?! Secondly, if the person writing this webpage cannot form a correct grammatical statement, why would you trust them to write your dissertation to demonstrate "excellent writing skills?" Finally, and possibly most important, how is it even possible to defend a document that you didn't write?
That said, without the help of www.professays.com, I managed to figure out some semblance of a dissertation outline. It ended up being moderately impressive, I think.... 5 chapters, at least 3 major bullet points in each chapter, and some of those bullets had sub-bullets. I sent it off to my adviser, with the other document, and I can only anticipate that when I meet him tomorrow, he will a) not have read them and b) will have several negative comments on the fly. The only comfort I can maintain is that I believe that there is no possible way he can criticize anything I have given him as "cutesy." Yes, that has indeed happened on multiple occasions. However, as far as being female in a math department, I have gotten off pretty lightly. Maybe one of these days, I will devote a blog entry (or a couple) to some of those stories, but for now, I will focus on the positive: I am crossing my fingers that I have a good start to hopefully a good defense.
In addition to that document, I did in fact write my dissertation outline. I did not know where to start, as it is my first and (so far) only dissertation. Also, I had naively assumed that my adviser would have contributed somewhat to my outline as he had to that of my male colleague. So, like any first step in a research project in this era, I googled "dissertation outline." The amazing thing was not that I found nothing helpful online, but that I found the following site: http://www.professays.com/dissertations/ I mean, here is a site that allows you to pay someone to write your dissertation! First of all, I feel that it is a bit disingenuous for them to write on their page: "Dissertation process is completely different academic project, unlike anything you have done before; it is an independent and self-directed process which requires not only profound knowledge but excellent writing skills as well." So, what is their point? Here are the reasons why someone qualifies to obtain what could arguably be the most difficult degree in higher education - let's relieve you of that!?! Secondly, if the person writing this webpage cannot form a correct grammatical statement, why would you trust them to write your dissertation to demonstrate "excellent writing skills?" Finally, and possibly most important, how is it even possible to defend a document that you didn't write?
That said, without the help of www.professays.com, I managed to figure out some semblance of a dissertation outline. It ended up being moderately impressive, I think.... 5 chapters, at least 3 major bullet points in each chapter, and some of those bullets had sub-bullets. I sent it off to my adviser, with the other document, and I can only anticipate that when I meet him tomorrow, he will a) not have read them and b) will have several negative comments on the fly. The only comfort I can maintain is that I believe that there is no possible way he can criticize anything I have given him as "cutesy." Yes, that has indeed happened on multiple occasions. However, as far as being female in a math department, I have gotten off pretty lightly. Maybe one of these days, I will devote a blog entry (or a couple) to some of those stories, but for now, I will focus on the positive: I am crossing my fingers that I have a good start to hopefully a good defense.
Total Comments 0
