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Post by hah on Jan 29, 2014 14:29:22 GMT -5
361 pages, but I "do theory."
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Post by thisfield on Jan 29, 2014 14:35:11 GMT -5
361 pages, but I "do theory." A theory can be two fucking sentences. Our field is such bullshit. |
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Post by whatevs. on Jan 29, 2014 14:44:48 GMT -5
361 pages, but I "do theory." I "do theory" too and mine was just a little over 200. |
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Post by hah on Jan 29, 2014 14:46:23 GMT -5
"A theory can be two fucking sentences. Our field is such bullshit."
Yes, but since Marx theory has included the history of the theory.
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Post by guest_72 on Mar 3, 2014 7:32:13 GMT -5
I know some people who have dissertations in the 700 page range and it becomes way to cumbersome to turn this into anything publishable after you are done.
My dissertation was 203 pages (and I fretted about getting it over the 200 page mark!) and consisted of an intro, conclusion, and 4 substantive chapters. The intro and conclusion were there basically to make the whole thing fit together, but each of the chapters had either already been published or were promised for submission to special issues at the time of my defence, plus I published a concisely edited version of the whole thing for a long-ish book chapter. By the time I defended I had 6 publications based on my diss research on my CV.
So long as your supervisor/committee agrees - and you would want a positive response on this before signing someone to your committee - I would HIGHLY encourage people embarking on their dissertations to follow a similar tack.
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Post by Number of pubs from diss on Oct 9, 2014 9:49:28 GMT -5
Not sure if this board gets read, and I realize this is an older thread, but I am really surprised that you guys published so many papers from your dissertation. I published two, and would have published a third one as well but was strongly advised against doing this on the grounds that I'll need a book for tenure and having more than 2 chapters from the dissertation already published would make the project far less appealing to academic press publishers. Was this not a concern at all for you? Just wondering.. and surprised.
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Post by glad on Oct 9, 2014 12:05:24 GMT -5
I, for one, am glad that this thread got revived. It's actually been quite reassuring. My dissertation was probably in the 130-page range. At the time, I thought it looked/felt short. But I took the three substantive chapters and got three quality journal articles out of it. Two in very good journals.
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