01-31-2009, 06:40 AM
Based on different threads on different boards, I get the impression that the general opinion is that the more years you use on your dissertation the better it is.
I do not at all share this opinion. In fact, I find it rather strange.
If one uses 4-10 year on a dissertation, then - heck - that dissertation should be a masterpiece, and nothing but a masterpiece.
If I were to devote 7 years, for example, to write a dissertation, then that dissertation probably would have several thousand pages. In fact; I would feel a litte ashamed, because I would feel that I was working to slow. But that's just me.
How is that for conversion to working life?
Boss: Hello employee. Can you help me with some of the work that is lying around on my desk.
Employee: Sure thing, boss. I'll look it over, and come back to you in 2-3 years.
No offence. All honour to those who work a long time and produce a good dissertation, but it is - as I see it - nothing to BRAG about.
That's some kind of twisted logic.
Student 1: Hello, I just finished my dissertation. Took me 8 years.
Student 2: ONLY 8 years. That must be a lousy dissertation. I used 11 years.
The ridicule that is going on about people that produce their dissertation in 1-3 years is, as I see it, nonsense.
If you are effective and efficient - two key principles at least in the business world - than you can, as I see it, produce a very good dissertation in 1-3 years.
I do not at all share this opinion. In fact, I find it rather strange.
If one uses 4-10 year on a dissertation, then - heck - that dissertation should be a masterpiece, and nothing but a masterpiece.
If I were to devote 7 years, for example, to write a dissertation, then that dissertation probably would have several thousand pages. In fact; I would feel a litte ashamed, because I would feel that I was working to slow. But that's just me.
How is that for conversion to working life?
Boss: Hello employee. Can you help me with some of the work that is lying around on my desk.
Employee: Sure thing, boss. I'll look it over, and come back to you in 2-3 years.
No offence. All honour to those who work a long time and produce a good dissertation, but it is - as I see it - nothing to BRAG about.
That's some kind of twisted logic.
Student 1: Hello, I just finished my dissertation. Took me 8 years.
Student 2: ONLY 8 years. That must be a lousy dissertation. I used 11 years.
The ridicule that is going on about people that produce their dissertation in 1-3 years is, as I see it, nonsense.
If you are effective and efficient - two key principles at least in the business world - than you can, as I see it, produce a very good dissertation in 1-3 years.