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A quick post mortem of the thesis
- The title does not accurately describe the content.
- The attempt at contextualisation is rubbish. I'm making a lot of words while saying very little that's actually useful to someone who really doesn't know the field(s). It's essentially name dropping without (most of) the names – saying “I know this and this and this sub-section of literature/society/... exists,” but not saying anything beyond that.
- The chapter on the comic's publishing history and the attempt to give a short overview of general themes etc. is too short, and doesn't have the right kind of information, and is thus sort of useless.
- The terms of the discussion are not properly defined.
- The main part of the discussion does not follow a consistent system/structure. There are three sub-sections that each have four sub-sub-sections, which makes it look as if there's some kind of system there, but there isn't. The four sub-sub-sections are not the same for each of the three sub-sections.
- Chapter 6, “Boundaries of the Human,” is not properly connected to... anything. It just kind of floats in there. It's conveniently mostly left out of the conclusion, as well, so I'm really not sure what it's doing in the thesis at all. Ah, yes. I found it too interesting to cut. That's why it's still there. But it doesn't fulfil a purpose.
- The conclusion ignores chapter 6 (see above.) Also, neither the conclusion nor the discussion preceding it manages to take a step back and look at what it all means to a reader in the context of our own society.
- The attempt at contextualisation is rubbish. I'm making a lot of words while saying very little that's actually useful to someone who really doesn't know the field(s). It's essentially name dropping without (most of) the names – saying “I know this and this and this sub-section of literature/society/... exists,” but not saying anything beyond that.
- The chapter on the comic's publishing history and the attempt to give a short overview of general themes etc. is too short, and doesn't have the right kind of information, and is thus sort of useless.
- The terms of the discussion are not properly defined.
- The main part of the discussion does not follow a consistent system/structure. There are three sub-sections that each have four sub-sub-sections, which makes it look as if there's some kind of system there, but there isn't. The four sub-sub-sections are not the same for each of the three sub-sections.
- Chapter 6, “Boundaries of the Human,” is not properly connected to... anything. It just kind of floats in there. It's conveniently mostly left out of the conclusion, as well, so I'm really not sure what it's doing in the thesis at all. Ah, yes. I found it too interesting to cut. That's why it's still there. But it doesn't fulfil a purpose.
- The conclusion ignores chapter 6 (see above.) Also, neither the conclusion nor the discussion preceding it manages to take a step back and look at what it all means to a reader in the context of our own society.
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It's done now. And hey, at I may know nothing about academics, but I liked it a lot. Worrying will solve nothing.
Plus, it was a hell of a lot better than MY thesis, for sure.
I'm not worrying!
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Re: Also,
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I'm not particularly bothered.
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and congrats for finishing it. I know how hard you've worked.
What it does well...
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Und selbst wenn DU mit Deiner Arbeit rundum zufrieden wärst (was Du ja nie bist!), würde vielleicht noch jemand anders ein Haar in der Suppe finden. Genauso andersrum. Jemand, der Deine Arbeit bewertet und sich nie so so so so tief ins Thema eingearbeitet hat wie Du (und den gibt es nicht, führ Dir das immer wieder vor Augen!), fallen viele Dinge wahrscheinlich so gar nicht auf.
Also bitte, der Ausgang, sprich die Bewertung, ist einigermaßen, nicht ungewiss, aber doch nicht zu 100 % vorhersehbar.
Genieß das Leben, wenigstens für ein paar Tage, ja? Du hast es Dir wirklich verdient.
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