Looking for a thesis topic related to the internet and society...please help give me some direction! [more inside]
posted by metametababe on Oct 28, 2009 - 8 answers

Starting my dissertation (in the social sciences) - what advice do you have for me? [more inside]
posted by quodlibet on Sep 14, 2009 - 13 answers

Ph.D defense. What to know? How to keep calm? All tips and strategies welcome. [more inside]
posted by meerkatty on Aug 26, 2009 - 30 answers

Defended the MA, it's on its way to being published. Great! Dissertation chair wants me to continue with the project, adding a qualitative/comparative component. Uh oh. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 31, 2009 - 8 answers

Doing research in authoritarian countries. What is your experience? [more inside]
posted by proj on Jul 23, 2009 - 5 answers

Academic Philosophy: Is there any chance a US/UK publishing house will consider my dissertation for publication? [more inside]
posted by The Toad on Feb 9, 2009 - 10 answers

How do I use two different pagination styles in one MSWord 2007 document? [more inside]
posted by Mr. Gunn on Dec 16, 2008 - 4 answers

How to get started thinking about living abroad (possibly Paris)? And does anyone have any wisdom from doing it while writing a dissertation? [more inside]
posted by paultopia on Dec 1, 2008 - 17 answers

How do I link a bunch of documents together into a binder which automatically updates when changes are made? [more inside]
posted by special-k on Jun 11, 2008 - 8 answers

Is it in bad form to ask an author directly via email for an electronic copy of a dissertation or non-refereed academic article, if I, as a student, have no other method of access to the resources? [more inside]
posted by rhoticity on Jun 10, 2008 - 16 answers

I'm working on my dissertation and looking for suggestions for fonts that will compliment each other well. The dissertation will be primarily in English, with substantial amounts of quoted German text, a fair bit of French, and occasional epigraphs or isolated words of polytonic Greek. [more inside]
posted by philosophygeek on May 17, 2008 - 10 answers

Can a defunct trust fund donate tax-free to a university student's dissertation? [more inside]
posted by cashman on Dec 26, 2007 - 4 answers

I chose an unusual subject for my third year dissertation- Scientific Illustration. I need to compare past and present methods of recording images and their pros and cons with a named example (at the moment I've chosen Phytophthera, potato blight), as well as methods by which students and researchers observe and record their images. I'm a little stumped though, as there is very little (to my knowledge) peer-reviewed referencable texts out there for me to study with. Can anyone help? [more inside]
posted by D J Robertstein on Oct 4, 2007 - 17 answers

What guidebooks did you find helpful for the writing of a doctoral dissertation? (I'm writing a dissertation on literature, but guidebooks with a broader disciplinary scope are OK too, if you think they are particularly good.)
posted by limon on Aug 17, 2007 - 8 answers

I need a daily work schedule to get me through a PhD. I am really bad at managing large amounts of unstructured time. I'm trying to draw up a daily schedule which factors in all the different things I need to do - writing, reading, library, sorting out notes etc. It should be easy, but I'm struggling - any tips, examples?
posted by janecr on May 21, 2007 - 23 answers

As a PhD student experienced in practical firefighting and, er, not so much in research, I'm having difficulty figuring out what to do my doctoral research in fire ecology on. [more inside]
posted by arnicae on Apr 4, 2007 - 17 answers

Can anyone recommend a good LaTeX editor for Windows for writing my dissertation? [more inside]
posted by JMOZ on Mar 9, 2007 - 30 answers

I would really like to use Pages for my CS dissertation. Should I? [more inside]
posted by raheel on Feb 4, 2007 - 30 answers

Academic writer's block: tips, strategies, experiences, psychology for dealing with it? [more inside]
posted by RogerB on Sep 27, 2006 - 19 answers

I've been tasked to research universities' policies on providing institutional data for use in a dissertation. [more inside]
posted by assmatt on Sep 6, 2006 - 3 answers

Freelance copy editing: what's the going rate, and how much should I charge? [more inside]
posted by limeonaire on Sep 3, 2006 - 12 answers

In academia, is it plagiarism if you haven't finished writing your document, and you give it to a colleague/professor to review for content changes/problems and they find uncited sources? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 6, 2006 - 29 answers

I'd like a word processor that mimics Excel sheets. [more inside]
posted by oddman on Apr 14, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm probably going to drop out of a Ph.D. program – should I still take my qualifying exams? Any chance this might let me ultimately get a Ph.D. while feeling like I left academia? If I do ultimately drop out, would taking exams have just been a big waste of time? [more inside]
posted by ruff on Mar 28, 2006 - 21 answers

I've got 10,000 words of a dissertation to write in 30 days. It's an undergraduate dissertation, but I really, really, need a II:I (2:1, II:1) or above. Please see inside for more information! Thanks! [more inside]
posted by dance on Mar 2, 2006 - 18 answers

Emacs & LaTeX: Do I make the leap? [more inside]
posted by trey on Dec 12, 2005 - 14 answers

I'm finishing up my master's thesis, and I am having trouble picking a font to print it in. The thesis writing guide we are given just says it must be a "classic" font. I'd like something snazzy, yet easy to read. Save me from the clutches of Times New Roman! [more inside]
posted by amelliferae on May 16, 2005 - 43 answers

How do they create book indexes? I have a friend who's a grad student, and she needs to create an index for her hundred page scientific thesis. Is there any easy way to do it in MS Word, or another software product -- something that a non-geek could churn and burn with in a couple of hours?
posted by SpecialK on Jan 22, 2004 - 17 answers