The Tweetable Doctorate

[steepholm]

A Facebook friend has taken this widely-shared post in which science PhDs were invited to give "dumbed-down" versions of their PhD theses, and suggested that humanities people might try something similar. A good idea, and I thought people here might enjoy it too. Here's mine:

"Sometimes Spenser makes his ideas act like people, sometimes he makes his people act like ideas. It's not always easy to tell the difference."

Feel free to add yours in the comments.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

As you've opened the thread to undergrad dissertations, here's mine from the B.Ed. Degree I completed a few years ago:

My case study of an innovative teaching method shows that adults find learning Welsh hard, but those who put in more hours of practice do better than those who don't. Sadly there is no "one weird trick" to attaining rapid fluency.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

there is no "one weird trick" to attaining rapid fluency.

Another dream shattered. Though I can imagine the ad in my Facebook sidebar:

"Linguists Hate Her

30-year-old Texas mom finds one weird trick to learning Welsh in 6 hours!"