thesis

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Papers and compositions
boilerplate
composition
corresponding author
essay
essay question
essayistic
monograph
palimpsest
paper
peer review
prolusion
review
thesis
tract
treatise

dissertation | American Dictionary

dissertation
noun[ C ]
us/ˌdɪs·ərˈteɪ·ʃən/
a long piece of writing on a particular subject, esp. one that is done for a Ph.D. (= high university degree)

Examples of dissertation

dissertation
These dissertations were produced by graduate students who worked for many years in the city and who have collectively rewritten the history of the city.
Section 2 is a dissertation complementing and continuing the elective; in this review, we focus on the dissertation research.
However, a significant weakness is its handling of sources, which is curious as the work is essentially a doctoral dissertation.
A postgraduate diploma option can be obtained after completion of the core and optional modules or a master's degree after an additional research project dissertation.
If the degree is greater than unity, the dynamics are qualitatively the same as in my dissertation: history-dependent growth that can be explosive or implosive.
It begins with a dissertation at a research university, in which one compensates for the obscurity of one's subject by ferocious diligence in researching it.
Projects could range from a traditional recital or dissertation, but also allow for lecture recitals and performances of own compositions to be submitted.
This dissertation analyzes and applies ideas from cakecutting to the design and analysis of negotiation protocols.
Individually many of these articles are, or have been, used by academics for structuring undergraduate reading assignments, tutorials or essay/dissertation work.
Under normal circumstances the presider would be presumed the "author" of the dissertation.
In this dissertation, we present an approach for developing such complex systems.
You were at the same time working on your licentiate dissertation, which dealt with aspects of fiscal policy, right?
To get a doctor's degree you had subsequently to write a doctoral dissertation, which had to be a printed book.
This study was part of a doctoral dissertation.
Even her doctoral dissertation was not detailed enough to do full justice to it.
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