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I'm not sure about other fields, but most theses in computer science these days are usually a stitch-up of your papers + some glue text/backstory. I.e. 80% of y
by m000 7y ago
I'm not sure about other fields, but most theses in computer science these days are usually a stitch-up of your papers + some glue text/backstory. I.e. 80% of your thesis is already in LaTeX format. Org Mode only adds complexity to your workflow.
- kleiba 7y agoI doubt that anyone can be familiar with "most theses in computer science these days".
- wolfram74 7y agoDepends on your threshold for "familiarity". Anyone currently working on theirs will likely have a number of friends/colleagues working on ones of their own, include second and third hand knowledge accumulated from conferences and likely any modestly sociable CS doctoral candidate would know at least the loose structure, if not 30 second blurb of quite a large number of theses in progress.
- kadal 7y agoUnless (like me) you write your papers in org-mode too!
- ska 7y agoThat is very much dependent on department.
- analog31 7y agoThis was common in the hard sciences way back when. I remember fellow students saying things like: "I have my three papers, that's three chapters, now I just need my intro and conclusions." In psychology, they had a phrase, which was: "Published and outa here." Some advantages: It meant your work was demonstrably publishable, you got 3 pubs out of it. Disadvantages: You were basically a hostage until your advisor agreed to let you publish 3 papers. It probably tended to flood the literature with papers of lesser quality.