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Remember, your thesis will bear only your name. Theses are normally copyrighted in the name of the author. Your
early reputation and perhaps your job prospects may relate to the quality of your thesis and of the related publications
that may appear in the primary literature. (As stated in Chapter 3, you may not have any "related publications" if you
allow your thesis to be posted on a Web site.) A tightly written, coherent thesis will get you off to a good start. An
overblown encyclopedia of minutiae will do you no credit. The writers of good theses try hard to avoid the verbose,
the tedious, and the trivial.
Be particularly careful in writing the Abstract of your thesis. The Abstracts of theses from most institutions are
published in Dissertation Abstracts, thus being made available to the larger scientific community.
If your interest in this book at this time centers on how to write a thesis, I suggest that you now carefully read Chapter
25 ("How to Write a Review Paper"), because in many respects a thesis is indeed a review paper.
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