Timeline for How should I publish my "story"? i.e. strategies and advice on chopping up a thesis
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| Dec 6, 2010 at 5:18 | vote | accept | partition_of_unity | ||
| Dec 6, 2010 at 5:18 | vote | accept | partition_of_unity | ||
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 3:14 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | @Ben Yes, I think you are right. Thankfully I have a job lined up, not all Australian PhD students are so lucky. That doesn't mean Australia doesn't produce some good PhDs, there are a few that do strong work and end up in great positions in the US. But there are a lot of us who are provided little career support and end up on the street afterwards without anything to do. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 2:59 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | No, this is normal in mathematics, though there is some variance. (Everything in my thesis had been on the arXiv for years by the time I finished). I suspect it doesn't make a huge difference for career prospects (the letters make a bigger difference there), but it frees you from spending your entire postdoc rewriting your thesis, as it sounds like the OP may end up doing. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 2:53 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | That would have been the ideal situation but I think it has more to do with Australia vs US/Europe instead of the particular research field. A PhD is 3/4 years in Australia and no graduate-level coursework is done during that time. One has to learn all your background theory on "on-the-fly". That makes it particularly hard to publish early on when you have a topic that requires understanding a lot of background theory. Generally you do 4 years of undergrad education and then are expected to produce your PhD thesis in 3-4 years with only 3 years of funding. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 2:05 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Likely this is a difference between Mathematics and Computer Science (my Ph.D. field), but in CS, by the time a thesis was submitted and approved, various chapters were already published, at least in conference proceedings, and headed to journal publication. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 1:49 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | Wow, great. That's the type of answer I was hoping for. Thanks. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 1:33 | history | answered | Tom LaGatta | CC BY-SA 2.5 |