{"id":3928,"date":"2010-11-08T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/honours-theses\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","slug":"honours-theses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/honours-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Honours theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around Australia, honours degrees are under threat from academic administrators who see them as resource-intensive and fee-sparse.   Often terrific work is done in honours theses.  But this work often doesn&#8217;t get publicised, and we need that kind of publicity to show just why honours degrees are worth doing, and worth fighting for.  So it&#8217;s great when students get around to depositing their theses in electronic archives, such as the e-Scholarship repository at the University of Sydney  &#8211; it takes a lot of prodding to overcome post-thesis-parting blues.  So, prod away!<br \/>\nYou can browse the Sydney <a href=\"http:\/\/ses.library.usyd.edu.au\/handle\/2123\/94\/browse?type=title&#038;submit_browse=Title\">list <\/a> &#8211; which is discoverable on the web, thanks to its software, the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dspace.org\/\">DSpace<\/a>.  A recent addition is Janet Watts&#8217; Conversational Analysis thesis, <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2123\/6770\">Children&#8217;s Silences in Mareeba Aboriginal English<\/a>.  This list is incomplete of course, since our prodding isn&#8217;t always successful.  Oh, and ignore the awful handling of the authors&#8217; name &#8211; a weirdness induced by a mix of submitter and a rare DSpace glitch.  Otherwise &#8211; a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around Australia, honours degrees are under threat from academic administrators who see them as resource-intensive and fee-sparse. Often terrific work is done in honours theses. But this work often doesn&#8217;t get publicised, and we need that kind of publicity to show just why honours degrees are worth doing, and worth fighting for. So it&#8217;s great &#8230; <a title=\"Honours theses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/11\/honours-theses\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Honours theses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}