Reading and evaluating a master-thesis is part of my job. Now, they are mostly interesting but I wonder why people tend to write so much. I don’t think they want to impress me with the sheer amount of words they can process. Although the challenge is to make the long story short. Almost 50% of those theses are based on nothing else then litrature review which is necessary, of course. But couldn’t they just do a summary, extract what’s important for their object of research. There is a tendency to retell what is found in other sources without weighing it against the overall object.
The more academic experience the authors have the better it is in general. They learned how to write which is a main process in generating a topic. Some believe that writing is just a 1-to-1 representation of that what is true. We know, however, since decades that we create while we write. So it’s more creation than mere representation. The students seldom reflect that.
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