Sample sentences for DISSERTATION

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Definition

a lengthy academic paper — especially a scholarly work required for an advanced academic degree

She wrote her dissertation on T.S. Eliot.

dissertation = lengthy academic paper

Oliver Stone used the dissertation as the basis for his film, JFK.

dissertation = lengthy academic paper

On my twenty-seventh birthday, the birthday I had chosen, I submitted my PhD dissertation.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dissertation = scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree

What had impressed them, said the interviewers — there were two of them, a woman and a man — was his senior dissertation on self-help books of the twentieth century.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake

dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an academic degree

My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree

I set to work on my dissertation, again choosing Mill as the topic.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree

I wrote an essay on John Stuart Mill's concept of self-sovereignty, and my supervisor, Dr. David Runciman, said that if my dissertation was of the same quality, I might be accepted to Cambridge for a PhD.
Tara Westover -- Educated

dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree

He'd turned that paper topic into his senior dissertation, later.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
In your dissertation.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
Tererai has finished her course work and is completing a dissertation about AIDS programs among the poor in Africa.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
There were long dissertations written in long hand; some were political and others dealt with the history of art.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
His wordy dissertation got on Larisa Feodorovna's nerves.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
It was the lamp he wrote his philosophical dissertations by.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
For her PhD dissertation, she built a system called "Storytelling Alice."
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
The sequel, 'The Pilgrim Continues His Way,' is mostly a dissertation in dialogue form on the whys and wherefores of the Jesus Prayer.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
Dwight gave the conference a short dissertation on the mines and on his lack of knowledge.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
At this moment in his speech he went off into a dissertation on Grushenka's "first lover," and brought forward several interesting thoughts on this theme.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
So therefore many learned dissertations could be written which in actual fact contain no really new conceptions.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
ROXANE: In telling his love? why, 'tis not simple telling, 'tis dissertation, 'tis analysis!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The original thesis of his dissertation had been just that: the advantage of simplifying the human organism.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

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