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How to avoid self-plagiarism when adapting dissertation into a paper?
I have recently completed a dissertation and have been encouraged to publish the work.
My dilemma is that I find it quite difficult (and painfully tedious) to rewrite the same thing couched in new ...
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Information in my Thesis incorrectly represented in another publication
Recently I came across a publication that referenced my PhD Thesis in a literature survey. The citing is correct, however, the information that they sited is incredibly erroneous. In a table, they ...
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Which one is your priority? Writing thesis or writing academic paper [closed]
Which one do you recommend and why? 1: Finish writing PhD dissertation and extract papers from your thesis. 2. Start writing papers and complete your thesis based on your papers?
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Published and unpublished dissertation; DOI assignment
I have recently defended my Ph.D. dissertation and submitted it to my graduate school's e-repository of scholarly works as well as to the ProQuest database. I have not heard yet from ProQuest about ...
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Writing a paper from Master thesis, but not sure how to organize the paper or what to include in it
I finished my master thesis and my advisor asked me if I would like to publish a paper on it. Being my first paper, I was very excited when he first told me, so I immediately started reading the ...
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Thesis writing style: when to italicize?
In a thesis or journal you write all sentences yourself, but on some occasions you prefer to take a piece of text from another source. If you do, should you use quotation marks only, or italicize it, ...
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The correct & acceptable phrase to indicate that some papers are very likely to be accepted
I have several papers that are resubmitted to journals with minor revisions.
I feel they are very much likely to be accepted by the time my actual Ph.D. viva takes place in one month.
But I need to ...
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How to integrate a paper where I am third author, but did a lot of work, into my master's thesis?
I am writing my thesis currently and I want to include papers that I am included on as an author. I will have a couple papers where I am 1st author, but there is one where I am third but did a lot of ...
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Undergraduate thesis main author credit and prestige
Our thesis instructor, after rejecting our proposals, became one of our thesis advisers after we've accepted his suggestion. Every time he's telling us that our proposal doesn't seem like a thesis (in ...
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Company wants copy of unpublished work. Should I give it?
A prospective employer requested a copy of my PhD thesis and some unpublished papers (still working on them). Is it wise to hand these to them?
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Publishing journal articles based on dissertation
My dissertation is drafted in a paper format which consists of three papers that I am planning to publish in future. Can I submit the manuscript to journals in 'as is' condition or I will have to ...
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When to make thesis available for public access?
I have recently finished my thesis and submitted to both university and national thesis center.
However, it is not online yet (probably there are many thesis pending). Should I wait for the thesis ...
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Who Owns the Publishing Rights of my Ph.D. Thesis?
I wrote my Ph.D. thesis without copy/pasting any of my prior published articles. Now that the university library got hold of my Ph.D. thesis; I'm wondering who owns the entire publishing rights of my ...
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How to Access an American PhD Thesis?
I need to download the following PhD Thesis:
"LH Jensen - Large deviations of the asymmetric simple exclusion process in one dimension"
However this website forces me to pay for it. I think it is ...
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What are the main factors that mean Humanities PhDs get published as books?
In both this comment and this answer it is conveyed that it is often the case in the humanities, that PhD thesis are viewed as a first draft of a book and are often published. There are probably a ...
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