# Your Thesis/Dissertation title and length here, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344 "2003-09-03T16:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/21 "2003-09-03T20:20:35Z")
B.A. (History): “1986: The State of Texas Attempt to Close the University”. M.S. (Geology): “The Petrology of the Leyva Canyon Formation, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas”. Ph.D. (Geology): “The Application of Trace-Element Geochemistry in Igneous Petrogenesis: Understanding the Origin of Metaluminous to Peralkalic Quartz Trachyte to Rhyolite”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/22 "2003-09-03T20:37:04Z")
Ph. D., 1980: “The Role of Interference Competition in the Organization of a Guild of Panamanian Hummingbirds.” I forget how long it was. Probably about 250 pages. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/23 "2003-09-03T22:38:08Z")
“Feasibility of Continuous Scrubbing of CO2 from Air at Atmospheric Pressure Using Amine Temperature Swing Chemistry”. Still being written. I’m just waiting for my shipment of monkeys and typewriters to arrive. Undergrad was “Scale-up Parameters for a Biofilter”, about 60 pages all up. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/24 "2003-09-03T23:10:19Z")
Ph.D. in geology: “Paleoclimatology of the Neoproterozoic interglacial to Marinoan glacial succession (~650-575 Ma), Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia,” 242 pages. ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/25 "2003-09-04T01:12:16Z")
“Twin Screw Extrusion of Polystyrene with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide”, in support of a Masters of Applied Science, Chemical Engineering (Waterloo, '97). 250 pages, **9 data points** See, if you tease the right gas into a polymer melt under appropriate conditions, the viscosity drops like a rock. This has implications wrt reactive processing, blending, low energy / low shear processing, and foamed structures etc. I just figured out how to get the gas to stay inside the extruder barrel for more than half a second at a time. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/26 "2003-09-04T03:54:44Z")
Heh, I don’t understand half of some of your titles. Masters in Psych: Sub-specific differences in vocalizations of the squirrel monkey (_Saimeri sciureus_) A little less than 100 pages. Ph.D in Biology: Genetic and morphological variation in the Black-billed Magpie (_Pica pica hudsonia_): Evolution of social signals. A couple of hundred pages. ---
**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/27 "2003-09-04T06:59:12Z")
MA (Geography) - “Factors in Hub Location: An Analysis Using Logit and Probit Models.” Around 80-90 pages. Ph.D. (Geography) - “Deconcentration, Time-Space Convergence, and Metropolitan Dominance: The Spatial Reorganization of the U. S. Urban System, 1940-1990.” 470 or so pages in 2 (!) Volumes. Volume I - around 235 pages (includes tables and maps). Volume II - around 235 pages (consists entirely of data - input and output - used in research). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/28 "2003-09-04T11:41:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brachyrhynchos \* > **Heh, I don’t understand half of some of your titles.** Yeah, but you’re the one who has to give a pronunciation for his/her username in his/her sig… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/29 "2003-09-04T12:33:48Z")
_“The acoustics of the classical guitar: Holographic, accelerometric and computational studies”_ - PhD thesis, Cardiff University 2000. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/30 "2003-09-04T12:35:19Z")
Sorry, 2000 was the year. 250-odd pages. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/31 "2003-09-04T12:45:05Z")
“Testing for heterogeneity of error variance” honours thesis UNSW 1982. 110 pages. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/32 "2003-09-04T13:07:18Z")
Something something “Amyloid” something something something. Somewhere between 200 and 1000 pages. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/33 "2003-09-04T13:11:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Something something Amyloid something something something. Catchy. ---
**Author:** ![Daftbugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Daftbugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daftbugger)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/34 "2003-09-04T14:30:42Z")
‘Novel bioactive coatings for prostheses applications’ MSc University of Manchester 2001, exactly 100 pages. PhD, same title and university , ongoing, but currently running at 47 pages of literature review and approximatley 20 pages of badly written practical write up. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/35 "2003-09-04T14:47:42Z")
Children, Death, and Society: A History of Death in American Children’s Literature, 1850-2000. Honors BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, 2000. I think it was between 65 and 70 pages. That was the only project/paper I ever finished EARLY, and of course it was the last paper/project of my undergrad career. I finished it a week ahead of time! ---
**Author:** ![labrat2111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a3d4f5/32.png) [@labrat2111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labrat2111)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/36 "2003-09-08T03:11:38Z")
Thin Film Dewetting Accelerated by Surfactant Adsorption, MS in Material Science and Engineering (Polymer Option), 2003 (tentative as I’m still working on it). Currently it is about 80 pages. ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/37 "2003-09-08T03:43:34Z")
I should probably know the title, shouldn’t I, given that it’s due in 7 weeks? Probably something like ‘Analysis of a Midden Deposit from Pulu Islet, Torres Strait.’ It should be between 13,000 and 15,000 words, probably. Speaking of ‘shoulds’, I should be working on it right now. Which means that it’s…time for a lunch break, yeah! (I am one of the world’s worst procrastinators) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/38 "2003-09-08T04:05:44Z")
M.S. (Civil and Environmental Engineering): _Treatment of Urban and Roadway Stormwater Runoff with Crushed Concrete Filtration Media_, 2001, 87 pages (incl. bibiliography). ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/39 "2003-09-08T05:12:26Z")
“‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’: Language, Identity, and Self-Dramatization in _Richard II_.” B.A. with High Honors in English, University of Michigan, 2001. About 50 pp. “Ben Jonson’s Balancing Act: _Volpone_ and the Antitheatricalists.” M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago, 2002. About 30 pp. I have a couple of years before I start on my PhD dissertation, though I can tell you a few things: it’ll be long, verbose, and Shakespeare’s histories will be involved in some way. Clearly my interests are similar to **Fretful Porpentine’s**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/40 "2003-09-08T05:25:49Z")
Ph.D.: _“And for to pleye as he was wont to do”: Chaucer’s Games in_ The Canterbury Tales. 220 pages. BA: I did a senior thesis back in '88, but I don’t remember the title. It was for my minor in journalism; something about media self-investigation. “Who Watches the Watchers?” or something like that. Hey, I was under the influence of Alan Moore at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344.md?page=3)