Trinity C & U

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  1. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Degree.net has an interesting link under it's news section to a gentleman's Ph.D. dissertation (Trinity College and University). Approx 4000 words. Makes for amusing reading. Somewhat curious for a doctoral dissertation. Apparently, he is proud enough to post it.
    http://www.degree.net

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  2. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    A wonderful rambling definition of buzz word after buzz word. However, I especially enjoyed his bibliography. It gives you a great context for how this dissertation fits into this important field of human knowledge.
     
  3. bing

    bing New Member

    Incredible. I have prepared better, and more detailed, briefs to my bosses on IT tools.
     
  4. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Just out of curiousity, I cut & pasted the whole thing to Word, made it 12 point font and double-spaced, like every college document I ever had to submit (but no paragraph breaks), and it came out to a little over 12 pages. That has to be the shortest non-math dissertation ever.

    Bruce
     
  5. bgossett

    bgossett New Member

    I would find it interesting to read opinions or speculation as to what level this dissertation might have been acceptable as a term paper, or something similar.

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    Bill Gossett
     
  6. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    Nevertheless, I bet that it is longer
    than the average TC&U dissertation,
    which probably comes in at a whopping 0
    pages.

    I find this sad in a weird way. This guy is proud of his work. Obviously
    he has received so little academic
    support from Trinity that he isn't even
    aware what a real dissertation looks like. He doesn't have a clue. He might not even know he's been taken.

    I wonder which Trinity C&U this was written for: SES? Degree Consultants? learnbymail.com? Peel-Bayley in Fuengirola? The Earlscroft people?

    And was I seeing things, or was his entire dissertation really just one long paragraph?
     
  7. Mohammed

    Mohammed New Member

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    At a guess, probably as an individual module assignment and as part of an overall assessment (the other part coming in the form of a three hour
    proctored exam). Could generally be at the 1st year of an undergraduate degree level.
     
  8. Gerstl

    Gerstl New Member

    Oh god, not even! When I taught if one of my first years had given me this I would have sent them back to do some editing.

    As for a PhD--I think my acknowledgements had more substance to them [not to mention any single page of the body of the dissertation]. A rambling list of buzzwords (his, not mine)
     
  9. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    One might also note that the same paper appears verbatim on the same site as a "Term Paper" written by Shakil Sheikh.

    I would rate it at first year undergraduate level, with a fail grade - spelling, grammar, structure, referencing.

    Malcolm S Jenner
    Senior Lecturer
    School of Computing & IT
    University of Wolverhampton
     
  10. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    One might also note that the same paper appears verbatim on the same site as a "Term Paper" written by Shakil Sheikh.

    I would rate it at first year undergraduate level, with a fail grade - spelling, grammar, structure, referencing.

    Malcolm S Jenner
    Senior Lecturer
    School of Computing & IT
    University of Wolverhampton
     
  11. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

    One might also note that the same paper appears verbatim on the same site as a "Term Paper" written by Shakil Sheikh.

    I would rate it at first year undergraduate level, with a fail grade - spelling, grammar, structure, referencing.

    Malcolm S Jenner
    Senior Lecturer
    School of Computing & IT
    University of Wolverhampton
     
  12. Guest

    Guest Guest

    The requirement for my Ph.D. thesis at Potchefstroom University is 80,000 words (400+ pages). I wonder if Trinity C&U has a research methodology course which details how one can put 80,000 words in a succinct 12 page document. This would certainly save a great deal of time, energy and work!

    Russell
     

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