In an unwelcome turn, my favorite Mexican lunch place has stopped playing Mexican covers of Creedence and is instead playing crappy easy-listening covers of the Police. How Mexican is that, for fuck's sake?
So anyway, I had to get out of there after I finished my tacos, and now I'm stuck in a coffee shop trying to hammer out the three sentence dissertation abstract for the front page of my CV. Here's how the work goes. I work on a single sentence for half an hour, and then I e-mail it to my supervisor, the Professor. Then the Professor e-mails me back to tell me it blows and to start over. Then I start over. I work on the same sentence for another half hour and e-mail it to the Professor. He e-mails me back to say it blows less, but still blows, so I need to start over. Etc.
I've been working on the same sentence for about five hours now. But it is starting to blow less.
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Can i help? Just take a look at these examples:http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/dissertations.html
and here: http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/dissertation.html
scroll to the bottom of the MIT page and you will see numerous examples. choose a model and follow it.
also see Chap. 11 of The Academic Job Search Handbook and Cracking the Academia Nut
ick. Last year they told me to put a 50 word or so blurb on the CV and I just couldn't do it --- I can't sum it up that quick.
Thanks for reminding me of something else I need to do!
j) Dissertation abstract—on one or two sheets of paper give a detailed description of the arguments of the dissertation. Provide a summary paragraph and long paragraphs on each chapter. [NOTE: if you can't easily provide this abstract then you are definitely not ready to go on the market.]
The APA Proceedings from February 2005 suggestions on one's dissertation abstract on job CVs.
I assume that is different from the advice you've been given?
I have been told 5-6 lines on your CV.
Even given the relative length of CVs (versus resumes), a 1-2 page abstract sounds absurd. I was told to include something that length in my research statement, though.
Yeah, I get these sense there isn't a lot of consistency about abstracts on CVs in philosophy. PGOAT's getting told to make her way longer than I got told to make mine. I've got a tiny little short one on the CV, and then a longer one as its own part of the whole package.
Wouldn't it be nice if entire dissertations were written this way--with the final product being less than a page long? But it would almost always be that perfect one page philosophical haiku. Writing two hundred pages no one outside your committee will ever read is, I believe, bullshit. (And mine was, like, almost 400 pages long.)
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