ANSWER ME!

[slemslempike]

[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.

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

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!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

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. :-)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yes. Do you know if Oxford have the same terms?

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

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

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!)

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I think they do. The thing that I was asked to write was a 'dissertation proposal', though, as glitterboy1 said, I have to identify a central thesis.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

P.S. Sorry - good luck with doing your presentation. I hope they all agree to take part.

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's so opposite. I've always heard that one does an master's thesis and a doctoral dissertation.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

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.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

So was mine - and my brother's PhD was a thesis.