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The World’s Shortest PhD Dissertations

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"David Lee Rector's Ph.D. Thesis is just nine pages long plus bio and bibliography, not to mention double-spaced." [Source & Photo Credit: Ali Almossawi] You have probably seen thick dissertations, too heavy to lift with one hand… but have you ever thought of how short a PhD dissertation can possibly be? Well, John Edensor Littlewood once famously inquired “whether a … [Read more...] about The World’s Shortest PhD Dissertations

How to write a dissertation proposal?

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Writing a dissertation proposal (aka "research proposal") is not different from writing a standard proposal for a research paper or a grant application. It might be a more complex set of topics that you have to describe within a given frame (e.g. max. 10000 characters), however, if you have gotten as far as having to write a dissertation proposal, it most probably means that … [Read more...] about How to write a dissertation proposal?

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