dissertation
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- noun
- /ˌdɪsərˈteɪʃən/
- My contact with Bill Fox began when I completed my doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
- doctoral dissertation
- write a dissertation
- dissertation research
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Watch on YouTubeStephen Heimer was a member of my dissertation committee at Yale.
- Stephen Heimer was a member of my dissertation committee at Yale.
- And in that library they had dissertations.
- You could not determine who would present your thesis, your dissertation.
- But the challenge that I'm actually struggling to overcome is actually my PhD dissertation in theater studies.
- Tell me a little bit about Doris, your mom though, because I heard that her dissertation was on football.
- But I, I think that sometimes you do need to resort to longer dissertations to dispel mythology.
- So I ditched that and I started the Polanke Mapping project, which became ultimately my dissertation.
- And so for my dissertation, I did a study on the effects of mindfulness training on sleep.
- What we discovered is that my dissertation was wrong and that there is no good solution to the double pine problem.
- I did my university dissertation on sad.
- People are writing their their dissertations and fields other than Hawaiian.
Examples
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I conducted a comprehensive study on climate change for my dissertation submitted to the university.
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"My sister is writing her dissertation on nurturing in the English novel."
Fiction book (2000) -
So this is the last part of the dissertation research.
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I could write my entire dissertation on your view.
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Well, I, I wrote a dissertation on Shakespeare.
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And so for my dissertation, I did a study on the effects of mindfulness training on sleep.
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I did my dissertation on blinking in the brain.
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I wrote my dissertation on Dolto at the Sorbonne.
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The manuscript of her dissertation at Columbia was spread out on her narrow cot.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her dissertation about renewable energy solutions received high praise from the panel of examiners.
Synonyms
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6.9
A long piece of writing based on research for a university degree
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8.4
A long, detailed written work that explains a subject
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9.3
A long, detailed written study about one subject, often by one author
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A long paper written to get a master's degree
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A long formal research paper a student writes to get a doctoral degree at university
Compounds
- Specialized
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A long formal research paper a student writes to get a doctoral degree at university
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissertation = dis + sert + ation
Although historically analyzable into Latin elements (dis- + sert + -ation), the components are not productive or transparent to typical learners (dis- here is not the negative 'not' and 'sert' is not a known English base), so the meaning cannot be derived from the parts.
Etymology
Dissertation comes from the Latin word dissertare, which means 'to discuss' or 'to explain' and is the same root as the English word discuss. So, a dissertation is a long, careful discussion of one subject that presents the author's research and findings.