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Well, in four months from today I will either have completed my MA or wasted several years of study. I started my final thesis class today. If all goes well, my degree will be conferred on 15 February 2011. School will finally be over although I am sure the learning will not.
Yes, good luck to you. If I have a piece of advice to give, it would be simply this: don't worry about making something extremely grand or perfect. Just work to get it done…you can always follow up and complete that “perfect” research paper in the future…. 😀
Ok, my happiness was premature. Due to family circumstances I have to drop the class and will not be able to start until December now. 🙁 I guess in-laws really are for messing up the best laid plans.
Ok, my happiness was premature. Due to family circumstances I have to drop the class and will not be able to start until December now. 🙁 I guess in-laws really are for messing up the best laid plans.
You can go ahead and start gathering your sources and researching. You don't have to be enrolled in the class to get started. Do what you can and be ahead of the curve come December.
Oh, I am already about 3/4 done with the first draft. I actually started working on it before I signed up for my first MA class 2 1/2 or 3 years ago..
That's impressive. I don't know how many such opportunities you have like this where you are, but you might be able to use parts of your paper as topics to submit to conferences for presentation. That would make you even more of an authority (as far as your cv is concerned) on your topic.
I have thought about that but there are few conferences over here that I can get to and even fewer that cover topics like mine. I do plan on trying to turn my thesis into a book after I am done though.
A general question about the state of a college MA thesis today. Have things changed over the decades that you can select your own? When I was in grad school during the 1950s, many professors told us what thesis to write about, parts of which which typically ended up later uncredited in one of their books.
A general question about the state of a college MA thesis today. Have things changed over the decades that you can select your own? When I was in grad school during the 1950s, many professors told us what thesis to write about, parts of which which typically ended up later uncredited in one of their books.
I think that would be highly unusual in today's world (at least, without permission). I completed my MA thesis this past Spring and had not heard about anything like that. I imagine that a professor who wouldn't even credit a student in a publication for research performed would have to be pretty old school.
A general question about the state of a college MA thesis today. Have things changed over the decades that you can select your own? When I was in grad school during the 1950s, many professors told us what thesis to write about, parts of which which typically ended up later uncredited in one of their books.
I think that would be highly unusual in today's world (at least, without permission). I completed my MA thesis this past Spring and had not heard about anything like that. I imagine that a professor who wouldn't even credit a student in a publication for research performed would have to be pretty old school.
I had heard things had changed. A good thing. By the way, back in the early 70s, UCLA stopped language and thesis requirements for M.A.s. I do not know if they ever reinstated those qualifications.
