Hi Mr. Bucey
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I actually had pm'd you a couple days ago, but i guess I didn't have enough credit in the bank here lol so I pm'd you on fb.
Yes I agree "resistance" is a very good topic, but just from reading your response it is sooooooo much involved, I am looking for a narrower focus. If not I may have to pick a least favorite topic. Is it ok to email you, I can show you my topic title if it ok?
Re: contact efforts
Nothing shows up in my FB message bin, my email, nor any of my Cove message bins. I did not realize the default for receiving "blind" email messages from Cove members was changed to "null" in the various changes in the Cove software over the years. I turned it "on" today. I'm pretty sure the system does NOT allow attachments. It's been a while since I was a moderator here in the Cove, so I'm not aware of the current criteria for "permissions" to contact other members through the Cove message system. It used to be something in the area of 5 posts minimum. (Posts in the Coffee Break forum don't count toward the minimum requirement.) Clicking (left click) on a Cove member's name in the upper left corner of a post produces a menu of choices available to any particular member. More choices are available in the "Contact" tab in the member's Profile. Note, also, that some Cove members limit email messaging to Cove administrators only when constructing their Profiles. I rarely visit my own Profile page, so I don't often look in the "Visitor message" bin. We do not receive email notice of Visitor messages. I note there is one almost two months old which I only just noticed today as I researched my response to your contact efforts.
To the thread topic:
Depending on how narrow you want your focus and (more importantly) how long your thesis is expected to run [in words or pages] you could choose to focus on any one or all three of the responses to big change
- face down the tsunami and get crushed
- flee the tsunami
- grab a surfboard and ride the tsunami to glory
As an academic of long standing, I can speak with authority when I say that every thesis or dissertation MUST consider its audience to be acceptable to the professor and (important to me when writing one) receive a high grade.
So, what does THAT mean? I have started to read literally hundreds of theses, dissertations, research papers, white papers, etc. over my career. The vast majority are unreadable because they are so dry and stilted because the author has a misplaced understanding of his job in assembling a melange of data for presentation to an audience. So when I say "started to read" I mean that
(unless I was constrained as the instructor to read, comment, and grade a paper) there were many such documents I merely stopped reading before finishing.
Writing a thesis or dissertation should be a joy, not a chore, because
- the author is interested in his topic,
- is eager to learn more about it, and
- wants to share what he learns with the world.
So how does a student do that when he is assigned a narrow range of topics by a professor, none of which topics currently interests the student?
Let me ask first, "Do ANY of those three criteria listed above fit your current sense of your thesis topic?"
If yes, which? If not, tell us and we'll start a new thread on how to build enthusiasm for a topic that doesn't strike one's current interest.