This might be a silly question but why are theses so long (200+ pages)? Someone just told me that they finished their 213 pages-long bachelor’s thesis, but I‘m confused about who the audience would be. Who would spend so much time reading a 213 thesis of a bachelor student? Do people actually read them? What is the purpose of some theses being so long. Also, on a Masters level, does the long length not make important information inaccessible, because it‘s buried deep down in those hundreds of pages?
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There are some topics, especially at masters level, that are just really complicated. So you need a lot of words to really be able to explain it all properly.
A good thesis should be as short as possible whilst still properly communicating what is required. Sometimes that ‘as short as possible’ will still be quite long.
For example, my master’s write up had: an introduction, a background section, a theory section, a methodology section, a results and analysis section, and a conclusion.
Those are all sections that absolutely need to be in there. And each of them required quite a lot of words to properly communicate the necessary information. When you add in a contents page, chapter breaks, references etc etc you’re looking at a lot of pages.
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