Trent Shipley wrote:
> My commitee complain that it is far too chatty and easy to read. It needs a
> much heavier dose of theory.
>
My point exactly - the more letters after your name, the higher the expectation
of average word length. What seems complicated to an undergraduate is chatty to a
professor.
>
> As for the rest of 'us'.
> We *don't* get by with regular English. It must have taken me nine
> months to get a decent approximation of what marketeers mean by "channel" and
> I still don't have a nuanced grasp of the concept.
>
Very true - I guess we just get used to the language we see in our own field.
Who would be the intended audience of your dissertation (other than the assessing
panel, of course) - does it have what the marketeers call a target audience?
Russell C.
