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slemslempike ([personal profile] slemslempike) wrote2005-09-19 01:14 pm
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ANSWER ME!

[Poll #573296]


Yes, of course I've done my presentation.
Some of it.
In my MIND.
Look, a pterodactyl is making off with Margaret Thatcher's wig! *runs*
(BBC news reported the break up of Mark Thatcher's marriage, and included this paragraph:

"Educated at Harrow, he left in 1971 with just three O-levels. He did not go to university, and failed his accountancy exams three times."

And then they begrudgingly admit that he's actually quite successful.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Really? I call anything less than about 50,000 a dissertation, but I've never heard of anywhere calling the PhDs dissertations. Interesting!

Did you not sing the happy clappy ones in primary then? Deprived!

[identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
I suspect that the Cambridge distinction is that your 'thesis' is what you express in your dissertation, if you see what I mean.

I don't think I really encountered any happy clappy ones until I met the Christian Union at College. And my relationship with them wasn't of either the best or the longest. :-)

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Do you know if Oxford have the same terms?

Aw! They are actually all very cheering and fun to sing.

[identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Informally, even Cambridge people tend to call it a 'thesis', but officially, it's a dissertation. I don't know for sure about Oxford, but I just checked one of their sites for prospective students, and that talked about a 'thesis' for research students.

My objections were more to the CU and their theology than to the hymns: something about all homosexuals being damned... (Sorry, I'll stop the rant there!)

[identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think they do. The thing that I was asked to write was a 'dissertation proposal', though, as [livejournal.com profile] glitterboy1 said, I have to identify a central thesis.

[identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
P.S. Sorry - good luck with doing your presentation. I hope they all agree to take part.

[identity profile] protoainsley.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, that's so opposite. I've always heard that one does an master's thesis and a doctoral dissertation.

[identity profile] slemslempike.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. I know a lot of people refer to any extended research paper as a thesis, and I wondered where I'd picked up my definite ideas that theses are only for doctorates/mphils, and dissertations are anything less than that. My MA was a dissertation, definitely referred to as such in the syllabus.

[identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
So was mine - and my brother's PhD was a thesis.