Comments on: academic humor

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:49:30 +0000

honors:
coming out of the bias closet: clarity and community in alternative media discourse – snore

PhD: round one – just like above:
“Managinge to connect: The relationship between social structure, social support and personal something or other”
PhD: round three (proposal accepted):
“Networking in Everyday Life” – short sweet, fits on a postage stamp.

By: sijeka

sijeka — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:46:41 +0000

my last dissertation title was (translated from french):

“Generations X/Y: between Media representation and self representation”

or something….

By: Meri

Meri — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:00:19 +0000

Yes, when I saw that cartoon I thought it was hilarious!

My dissertation title was “Dynamic Planning: The Application of AI Planning Advances to Project Management” — seems I fit the pattern

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:17:41 +0000

“Principals, Agents, and Distant Markets: The Role of Information in Non-State Market-Driven Environmental Policies”

I was going to go with “Invisible Hand, Distant Mouths,” but it seemed … well, unseemly.

By: Cole

Cole — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:42:13 +0000

Ha, spot on. Stephen Brown talks about this at great length in one of his books. My Undergrad dissertation was called Postmodern rock music consumption: An introspection

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:55:39 +0000

One of my professors in a history of journalism seminar actually had a class on the elements of a paper that gets accepted for presentation. One of the main elements was that the title had to have two parts separated by a colon. It worked for the paper I sent to an association that semester.

By: stroygeek

stroygeek — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:52:12 +0000

We play this game with conference presentations also. Some eye catching title, the inevitable colon that the boring stuff. For instance:

Oh My God Look At Those Tits: A cultural study of British Christian ornithological societies

Who Died and Made You President?: A Study of Vice-president Inaugural speeches.

Fun for the whole family.

By: Liz Henry

Liz Henry — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:26:59 +0000

“Towards an Anthology of Spanish American Women Poets, 1880-1930″

But I’ve committed many paper titles that had the colon and the jargon!

How about “Naked in the Wilderness: Mythic Landscapes, Bodies, Patagonia, and Mars”

Pomposity *and* the word “naked”!

By: KF

KF — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:08:42 +0000

I apparently had the guide:

The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Electronic Media.

Short on jargon; long on prepositions.

By: museumfreak

museumfreak — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:52:38 +0000

Current paper title?

The Flesh Machine Doesn’t Want Our DNA: Better Living Through Bad Chemistry and Good Media for Disability Activists