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Did you write a Senior/Honors Thesis? Come have a talk with me.
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I wrote one. It was not hell. It was fifty pages, and I did the research over a long period of time but I did all of the writing in one or two nights up against the deadline. I wrote about the class of 1903 and their Round Robin letter. I still owe Larry a Round Robin letter.
I did one on Catherine the Great. My teacher loved it but maybe because she was a woman. I wrote many papers in school and I focused on American Presidents. I think you can impress professors by teaching them something that they do not already know, in your paper.
I wrote about the structure and composition of Don Quixote in comparison to other early novels. I did the research over a long period, just as Sarah mentioned that she had done. It was pretty intense but a great experience overall because you really feel, by the end of the process, that you've gained a measure of expertise in the subject.
Wow I forgot about the Round Robin letter.
It's gonna show up on your doorstep sooner or later, Larry. I've been struggling with what to say, quite honestly. It's been harder than I thought. A letter to people I chat with every day but otherwise don't know. Do I talk about me? The state of the world? I haven't forgotten about it for even a day. It's on my to-do list.
I didn't do one for undergrad. I don't think we had the option, but I was in teacher education, so I think our student teaching took the place of a thesis. But I agree with everyone above on writing research.
Don't stress over it Sarah. Just write whatever comes to mind -- or write nothing at all. It will be fun to get whatever I get, I'm sure.
my master thesis is 79 pages. if you'd have told me that when i was 18 i wouldn't have believed you. i loved researching and writing it and learned a lot.
One of the cliches (sp?) that I think is true is the "start writing" cliche. Once you start to give the paper form the mountain becomes surmountable, if you will. Stressing about starting doesn't do any good. Start.
I know what a lit review is, thank you very much, Mr. Man!
iBritt wrote: "Okay, so I'm thinking about writing an Honors Thesis my senior year, and while I'm a little discouraged right now (my overall GPA is 2.9something, but my projected major GPA is like, 3.7!), I'm hop..."iBritt, I was an English major too. I really wanted to write a senior thesis, but my experience was awful. I had a professor who agreed to supervise, but my adviser told me not to do it with that professor because he hadn't published in a while. He also discouraged me from trying to finish it over the summer before my senior year, which is the only feasible way I could think of doing it.
Long story short, I decided not to do and did lots of snorkeling and played rugby instead. In retrospect, I couldn't have made a better decision.
Britt, my daughter graduates next month in Creative Writing. For her senior seminar she wrote a detective novel, set in Italy in the 1920s. She did a lot of her research over the summer and rewrote it several times over the fall semester. I think she stressed over it, but was very pleased with her end result.
I wrote a senior thesis on subliminal advertising. Back in the pre-internet dark ages, it was hell to research.
I used to love the big index of Periodicals.
Right, Charly. And I used to get so distracted, reading completely unrelated articles.
I just want to write a thesis because I don't want to take an APPLES course to fulfill a requirement.But apparently, my GPA is not good enough to be able to write a thesis, which I think is stupid.
APPLES is an acronym for something. It stands for...Assisting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service. We have an "Experimental Education" requirement that's meant to push people to study abroad. I can't afford to study abroad, so there's the APPLES course or an honors thesis.
Not exactly. If it was that, we would be able to do some service hours and call it a day.
What was it like? What did you write about? Was it hell?