Dissertation
noun
A long written paper about a specific subject, usually required for a university degree.
John had to write a dissertation on climate change to complete his master's degree in environmental science.
Often appears as...
- write a dissertation
- complete a dissertation
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Academic
noun
A long written paper about a specific subject, usually required for a university degree.
John had to write a dissertation on climate change to complete his master's degree in environmental science.
Often appears as...
- write a dissertation
- complete a dissertation
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3University Level
A dissertation is usually written for a higher education degree, such as a master's or PhD.
After her research, she presented her dissertation to earn her doctorate.
Pro Tip 2/3Extensive Research
Writing a dissertation involves detailed and thorough research on the chosen topic.
His dissertation on ancient literature involved months of visiting archives.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Focused
Dissertations are focused on a specific area of study and contribute new knowledge or insights.
Her dissertation focused on renewable energy solutions in urban areas.
Pro Tip 1/3University Level
A dissertation is usually written for a higher education degree, such as a master's or PhD.
After her research, she presented her dissertation to earn her doctorate.
Pro Tip 2/3Extensive Research
Writing a dissertation involves detailed and thorough research on the chosen topic.
His dissertation on ancient literature involved months of visiting archives.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Focused
Dissertations are focused on a specific area of study and contribute new knowledge or insights.
Her dissertation focused on renewable energy solutions in urban areas.
Pro Tip 1/3University Level
A dissertation is usually written for a higher education degree, such as a master's or PhD.
After her research, she presented her dissertation to earn her doctorate.
Pro Tip 2/3Extensive Research
Writing a dissertation involves detailed and thorough research on the chosen topic.
His dissertation on ancient literature involved months of visiting archives.
Pro Tip 3/3Subject Focused
Dissertations are focused on a specific area of study and contribute new knowledge or insights.
Her dissertation focused on renewable energy solutions in urban areas.
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Thinking your way out of...
when you feel like an impostor you have to find ways to deal with the anxiety of kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop so some of the coping mechanisms are things like flying under the radar you know not raising your hand not asking for promotions not giving your ideas and sharing in meetings procrastination you know when I was supposed to be writing my dissertation I
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The freakonomics of...
By morning, the gang leader arrived, checked out Sudhir, decided he was no threat, and they let him go home. So Sudhir went home, took a shower, took a nap. And you and I, probably, faced with the situation, would think, "I guess I'm going to write my dissertation on The Grateful Dead, I've been following them for the last three months."
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
I began to get to know him and his friends and family, and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life for my senior thesis in college. This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton and now a book. By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years
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What happens when...
and that we could choose differently. What's the future of the body, of beauty? If we change the body, will we have new kinds of awareness? And will new kinds of awareness of the microbial world change the way that we eat? The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made
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John McWhorter: Txtng is...
If you listen to the way black youth today speak, think about the use of the word "yo." Whole dissertations could be written about it, and probably are being written about it. A pragmatic particle, that's what LOL has gradually become. It's a way of using the language between actual people.
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The call to learn PIPE...
And I'd love to talk about this, but I think the argument is so obvious to anyone who's hung around a fourth grade classroom that it doesn't need much talking about -- but I guess I may be very wrong about that, and everything else that I've said. So don't go back and read my dissertation.
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What we didn't know...
as stiff lever systems that produce speed or power. And my first forays into biological research, doing dinosaur paleontology as an undergraduate, were really squarely in that realm. But when I went to graduate school to study biomechanics, I really wanted to find a dissertation project
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Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
and I liked it. And I liked drinking too, but it was obvious that alcohol was really the more dangerous of the two, but my friends and I could get busted for smoking a joint. Now, that hypocrisy kept bugging me, so I wrote my Ph.D dissertation on international drug control.
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Reimagining Dinosaurs...
history so i think for us is we just need to do you know what we can do and what we're supposed to do so it means we protect the fossils share the knowledge and invite everybody yeah mongolia is one of the best that's where i did my dissertation field work
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Why people fall for...
every time it was shared with outside parties. Less than a decade after his dissertation, newspapers were falsely insisting that experiments could prove sweetness was imperceptible on the back of the tongue.
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Thinking your way out of...
when you feel like an impostor you have to find ways to deal with the anxiety of kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop so some of the coping mechanisms are things like flying under the radar you know not raising your hand not asking for promotions not giving your ideas and sharing in meetings procrastination you know when I was supposed to be writing my dissertation I
Video examples
The freakonomics of...
By morning, the gang leader arrived, checked out Sudhir, decided he was no threat, and they let him go home. So Sudhir went home, took a shower, took a nap. And you and I, probably, faced with the situation, would think, "I guess I'm going to write my dissertation on The Grateful Dead, I've been following them for the last three months."
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
I began to get to know him and his friends and family, and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life for my senior thesis in college. This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton and now a book. By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years
Video examples
What happens when...
and that we could choose differently. What's the future of the body, of beauty? If we change the body, will we have new kinds of awareness? And will new kinds of awareness of the microbial world change the way that we eat? The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made
Video examples
John McWhorter: Txtng is...
If you listen to the way black youth today speak, think about the use of the word "yo." Whole dissertations could be written about it, and probably are being written about it. A pragmatic particle, that's what LOL has gradually become. It's a way of using the language between actual people.
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The call to learn PIPE...
And I'd love to talk about this, but I think the argument is so obvious to anyone who's hung around a fourth grade classroom that it doesn't need much talking about -- but I guess I may be very wrong about that, and everything else that I've said. So don't go back and read my dissertation.
Video examples
What we didn't know...
as stiff lever systems that produce speed or power. And my first forays into biological research, doing dinosaur paleontology as an undergraduate, were really squarely in that realm. But when I went to graduate school to study biomechanics, I really wanted to find a dissertation project
Video examples
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
and I liked it. And I liked drinking too, but it was obvious that alcohol was really the more dangerous of the two, but my friends and I could get busted for smoking a joint. Now, that hypocrisy kept bugging me, so I wrote my Ph.D dissertation on international drug control.
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs...
history so i think for us is we just need to do you know what we can do and what we're supposed to do so it means we protect the fossils share the knowledge and invite everybody yeah mongolia is one of the best that's where i did my dissertation field work
Video examples
Why people fall for...
every time it was shared with outside parties. Less than a decade after his dissertation, newspapers were falsely insisting that experiments could prove sweetness was imperceptible on the back of the tongue.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.
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Elise Andrew
British Writer
To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.
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Adam Grant
American Author
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
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Eric Greitens
American Politician
I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
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Cara Delevingne
English Model
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Douglass North
American Economist
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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Esther McVey
British Politician
My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.
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Bill O'Reilly
American Journalist
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.
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Jessie Ware
British Musician
I did my dissertation on Kafka.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.
Quote examples
Elise Andrew
British Writer
To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.
Quote examples
Adam Grant
American Author
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Quote examples
Annalee Newitz
American Journalist
Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
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Eric Greitens
American Politician
I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.
Quote examples
Cara Delevingne
English Model
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Quote examples
Douglass North
American Economist
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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Esther McVey
British Politician
My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.
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Bill O'Reilly
American Journalist
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.
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Jessie Ware
British Musician
I did my dissertation on Kafka.
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