(September 24, 2014 at 6:52 pm)pocaracas Wrote: hmmm... I find it odd that you have to count words.
I just wrote what I did and all the mathematical proofs required, then added a bunch of images (always cool when your PhD is in something that involves image analysis) and you know how each image is worth a thousand words!
The not-so-cool part was the cost of printing half a thesis in color (times 8)... ouch!
EDIT: and I have no idea how many words my thesis had... lots, I guess. Over 100 pages, but half were images.
Yeah, they're pretty strict at getting as close to the minimum as possible and not going over the maximum.
My dissertation was for an art history degree so it's required to be illustrated. I didn't over-use images though. Just when necessary when I talked about an artist or photographer that used the medium. Examples of their work.
I turned off my word count though so I didn't focus on it, it really helped.
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
