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serbring
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Hi all,
I am a professor in mechanical engineering and I have several master thesis students and I am facing the problem with the quality of their thesis. Especially, most of the thesis I have to correct are often very long because they are rich in useless information and lack of literature review. For example, in many cases, students write about any basic theory related to the topic that we teach in the first two years. For that reason, I am writing a long guide, where I explain how the thesis should be writting. I am thinking to set a limit of only 20 pages for the thesis, like a scientific paper, so that the students will be forced to think about the reader, so they will be forced to select only the relevant information and more important to review many times what they have written. What do you think about this limit? Is in your opinion too limited?
I am a professor in mechanical engineering and I have several master thesis students and I am facing the problem with the quality of their thesis. Especially, most of the thesis I have to correct are often very long because they are rich in useless information and lack of literature review. For example, in many cases, students write about any basic theory related to the topic that we teach in the first two years. For that reason, I am writing a long guide, where I explain how the thesis should be writting. I am thinking to set a limit of only 20 pages for the thesis, like a scientific paper, so that the students will be forced to think about the reader, so they will be forced to select only the relevant information and more important to review many times what they have written. What do you think about this limit? Is in your opinion too limited?