He then went to Bedford College in London and took a real MA, producing a thesis based upon detailed medieval research.
Maggie studied writing with Annie Dillard, eventually producing a thesis on Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath (with some Foucault) — outsiders who made noise by talking about their bodies and their relationship to death.
Remember that most employers of people with doctorates are based outside academia and are unlikely to be familiar with the arcane language and styles that are used to produce a thesis.
Producing a thesis is an essential step for a student graduating from medical school [ 1].
In fact, Keys says that her campaign ask is actually a conservative estimate considering how much it actually costs to produce a thesis-worthy collection.
But he came back with a wealth of interviews which gave him a permanent taste for fieldwork, produced a prizewinning thesis in 1949, and gained him entry to the French national research organisation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
"Every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream," he wrote in the mid-1990s together with Eric Freeman, who produced a doctoral thesis on the topic.
In traditional scholarly communications, academics produced a document (a thesis, an article, a book) and then sent it to someone else to review it, edit it, publish it, distribute it.
He said in the introduction to his Philosophical Papers Volume II (1986) that, like any analytic philosopher, he had set out to tackle problems piecemeal, but that he seemed almost inadvertently to have produced a coherent, unified thesis.
In another, he works over a promising scholar, describing the prose as "a bit better than Ph.D. English" and claiming that "the mountain of his research has produced a mouse of a thesis".
