I’m evaluating a doctoral dissertation. On page 4, the author says, “the current system is profoundly unjust and creates suffering, pain, and violence.”
I want to claw my eyes out, and there are 514 pages to go.
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Does a dissertation need to be 500+ pages at all?
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Right? Especially when half of it is “as I mentioned before” and “as argued previously.”
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(cringe)
Can you squinny out by claiming it must have been written by AI?
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Send it back to the student: Return to sender address unknown, no new number no new phone.
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You are in charge. You make the rules. Force your students to meet your writing criteria. Its called teaching.
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This isn’t my student. I’m on the dissertation committee for a student in Spain. Of course, if it were my student, I’d work on her writing in the process. But I’ll never have my own graduate students. We don’t have a graduate program.
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Ah did not know this. Sorry. I incorrectly assumed a false assumption.
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Learning how to write contrasts with “technical writing”. The latter addresses the forms of writing. Whereas the former addresses the substance of writing. Its the latter that’s absolutely a deal breaker and absolutely critical. Teach your wards how to prioritize and discern Primary from Secondary. Writing Literature 101.
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