[Air-l] Ph.D. student is looking for a good home for his Thesis

[Martin Garthwaite]

in the uk a masters student writes a dissertation a phd student writes a thesis

On 4/5/07, Charlie Balch <charlie at balch.org> wrote:
> I know things are different in other nations but don't Ph.D. students write
> a dissertation and masters students write a thesis?
>
> I also sympathize. My advisor used my dissertation to shake things up in my
> department and I ended up with a committee that was mostly
> out-of-department. It also took an extra year. I'm very proud of what I
> produced but am not sure that the extra time was worth it.
>
> For those that are interested, my dissertation was a case study on Internet
> surveys. I created a survey system that encourages best methods of survey
> design as defined by research (http://birat.net). You may also be interested
> in the review of literature at http://balch.org/lsu/dissertation.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Reverend Captain Charles Vickroy Balch M.Ed. MBA Ph.D.
> (I'll only use that title once)
>
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>
> Michael:
> I'm sorry for your situation, and know how awful it is. My original Ph.D.
> adviser tried to run me out of the program by trying to persuade the rest of
> the faculty that they shouldn't serve on my committee. Fortunately, no one
> believed the charges he leveled against me and I finished my Ph.D. under a
> different adviser. If you are in a similar fix, can't you sue for libel or
> slander? I suspect just the threat of that will get your department to bail
> you out, though I'm glad I didn't have to test that theory myself.
> Best wishes,
> Christian Nelson
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