Scope: For a Chapter/For an Article. Dissertation chapters and journal articles often differ in the scope of their concerns and in the size of the claims they make about their respective arguments.

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are ...

What’s more, allowing a dissertation committee member, let alone a committee chair, to be the first author, or any co-author at all, seems fundamentally corrupt. In discussing this with my former ...

I didn’t revise the chapter immediately, because I wanted to draft the entire dissertation and revise the chapters at the end, once I could see the project as a whole.

The dissertation can contain a mixture of publication chapters and conventional chapters, with the category of each chapter clearly identified and, for publication chapters, referenced. 11. Where ...

Dissertation Seminar (PHI 599), Spring 2021. Instructor: Adam Elga Registrar’s page for this seminar. Meeting time: Wednesdays 10:00-11:50a, over zoom. Zoom link accessible through the seminar page on ...

The dissertation can contain a mixture of publication chapters and conventional chapters, with the category of each chapter clearly identified and, for publication chapters, referenced. 11. Where ...

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...