Dissertation

Dissertation: Writing, Surviving, and Finishing Dissertations

2008-04-25T17:52:50.0000Z

Not sure what advice you want; just post it again wherever you initially meant to. (Perhaps on the Dissertation topic, which is actually called Thesis?) BTW, you can add links to posts; no need to just list the URL in text.

Dissertation: Writing, Surviving, and Finishing Dissertations

2008-04-25T15:53:43.0007Z

But I posted that in the wrong place! Please advise, thanks, jf

Dissertation: Writing, Surviving, and Finishing Dissertations

2008-04-25T15:52:37.0012Z

There's life after your dissertation, even if that's hard to believe. Writing's as much manual labor as mental, as much about rituals of time and space and resonance as about methods, and about knowing that our fingers can lead our minds to new places, fresh ideas and implications. But dissertations are often hell, a kind of writing you'll never do again: they're lonelier experiences, riskier, longer and slower pushes uphill than most other writing you'll ever do. At least that's some of what's in the essay, "Notes on Academic Writing," that I wrote years ago to avoid writing a conference paper—and I've found that this essay has had an underground existence ever since, being passed along from one dissertation writer to another delighted to see that someone else was as miserable as they were and went on, nevertheless, to publish a good deal of material and not perish after all. That essay can be found at: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jff1/learningacadwrtg.htm

Still, I do wish someone had shown me John Trimble's wonderful Writing with Style!

The Connection Machine: Split it.

2008-04-24T21:07:05.0012Z

Danny Hillis is a gifted scientist, but he did not create a musical artist as his thesis.

Dissertation: Fields of study aren't dissertations

2008-04-11T19:20:55.0019Z

We should probably take a closer look at the property names of the very complex education CVT. Users see that someone has a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Chemistry, and so they enter the dissertation as Chemistry, rather than Chemistry being the field or major, and Interactions of nonorganic sulfur with dihydrogen monoxide or what have you for the dissertation.

Dissertation: Fields of study aren't dissertations

2008-04-11T19:16:45.0005Z

... are they? How come "Chemistry" and the like are typed as dissertation?

None: Absence of information vs. information of absence

2007-09-17T01:04:49.0007Z

Ah, this page is no longer marked for deletion. Cool.

None: Absence of information vs. information of absence

2007-09-09T04:07:16.0012Z

Freebase generally conflates the absence of information with information of absence, a distinction that many other knowledge representation systems make. If there is a discussion of the logic behind this stance, this would be a good place to link to it.