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

[Michael Baron]

In Australia, Ph.D is usually referred to as Doctoral Thesis. The word
"dissertation" does not appear to be used much

On 4/6/07, Martin Garthwaite <marting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> > [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Christian Nelson
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:12 AM
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Ph.D. student is looking for a good home for his
> Thesis
> >
> > 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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