dis-avowal

[truepenny]

Today's goal:

"Finish" the introduction so that I can give it to my departmental friend to read.

This means writing the section on why my research & argument are important, beyond, Give me my PhD, you rat-bastards!

Then I really need to read through the whole introduction again, even though at the moment I hate this project so much I can barely bring myself to skim it, and try to clean up esp. the transitions, which often, well, aren't.

That's it. That's all I'm going to try to do today.

I'm setting the bar low.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Give me my PhD, you rat-bastards!

Makes me think of The Young Ones:
"My Darling Facist Bullyboy, Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman. Signed, Neil."

[libskrat]

Oh, I dunno. I think "Give me my Ph.D, you rat bastards!" is a perfectly important reason.

But I am a bad example.

why I will never get a PhD

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

I'd probably just thwack the commitee with the many many pages of work and demand the degree on the basis of the weight of my research.

This is an approved method, right?

Good luck. Don't drown. We'll swing lights from the shore when you come up for air.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Pretty much every time we've been to the theatre or the cinema recently, on the way out rysmiel has said some variant of "I wonder what truepenny would have made of that."

You're insightful, and that's why they're going to give you a PhD, and if they can't tell that from reading the dis, either the academic language is too stifling or they have no brains. I suspect that bit of the intro should say, translated, "I have these unique insights into revenge tragedy which are an advance on the knowledge of the human race".

(I'd have given you a PhD, or an Order of Merit or something for the Have His Carcase posts.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Especially for the reminder that, yes, I have demonstrated intelligence in my writing before this.

I may feel like a babbling cretin, but I'm really not.

[eeyorerin]

My program director (who, thankfully, is NOT my dissertation director) kept rejecting dissertation ideas that I brought to her as "not being original enough" or "not being important enough." So, when I had the last idea, I spent months researching evidence and preparing arguments as to how and why my research was novel, original, and necessary.

Then I went into her office, armed to the teeth, and she approved it without even a question. But the preparation has served me well in writing my introduction. Then again, I'm thinking that "Give me a Ph.D., you bastards," is about the thrust of the argument of any dissertation.

Good luck!

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Give me my PhD, you rat-bastards!

I kept trying to convince rivka to bring a large handgun to her defense, and display it prominently on the table while casting meaningful glances toward it whenever anyone asked a question. She refused to go along with it, however.

Perhaps if I'd only suggested a battle-axe....

corollary

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

not completely applicable but worth mentioning, the law school version:

If you have the law on your side, pound the law
If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts
If you don't have anything, pound the table.

[libskrat]

You have seen this, right?

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Give me my PhD, you rat-bastards!

This seems like a perfectly valid argument to me.

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

I was able to write the introduction using my original proposal plus a theory essay I'd written for another seminar -- but writing the conclusion was horrible, because all I wanted to say was "As I have demonstrated for the past 300 pages, I am right. Right, I tell you! Q.E.D."