{"id":105,"date":"2014-05-20T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/?p=105"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:41:09","slug":"what-is-a-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"What is a PhD Thesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PhD thesis is a written scientific work between 9 [<a href=\"http:\/\/mathoverflow.net\/questions\/54775\/what-is-the-shortest-ph-d-thesis\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>] and 2000 [<a href=\"http:\/\/aiosup.blogspot.de\/2007\/04\/longest-phd-thesis-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>] pages. The average page count varies for \u00a0different scientific fields as depicted \u00a0in this nice diagram from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rtgonzalez.kinja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert T. Gonzalez Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18txp670obhmmpng.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-122 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18txp670obhmmpng-300x245.png\" alt=\"18txp670obhmmpng\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18txp670obhmmpng-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18txp670obhmmpng-1024x837.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18txp670obhmmpng.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The question what a phd is, should be of interest for a phd student. If you cannot find or formulate your definition of a phd, then it will be hard for you to perform well as a phd student. How can you do something if you do not know what you are doing or for what you are doing it for?<\/p>\n<p>You have to find your definition of a PhD thesis. A search leads very fast to 2 great blogs about what a PhD is and what the difficulties in academia are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Hayton: <a href=\"http:\/\/jameshaytonphd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jameshaytonphd.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matt Might: <a href=\"http:\/\/jameshaytonphd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/matt.might.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A must see talk of James Hayton is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4MkRMp3roKQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/4MkRMp3roKQ<\/a>\u00a0. He&#8217;s not only explaining how you do not go insane, he also provides you with the big picture. Another must see is <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matt.might.net\/articles\/phd-school-in-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.<\/a> of\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Matt M<span style=\"color: #333333;\">ight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope you find some of the provided information and links helpful for your decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PhD thesis is a written scientific work between 9 [source] and 2000 [source] pages. The average page count varies for \u00a0different scientific fields as depicted \u00a0in this nice diagram from\u00a0Robert T. Gonzalez Blog The question what a phd is, should be of interest for a phd student. If you cannot find or formulate your &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/?p=105\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20,17,22,13,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexander.vondrous.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}