academic frustrations, of a good kind? . . . I am working on a paper for one of my classes right now, and an academic ethics ? IM . . .
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at the same time I've been working of late to nail down a firm topic to move into next semester in regards to my thesis work. I'm finding that the topic I'm working on right now for this particular paper would make for a great thesis project. THe problem? the department will very likely say something to the effect of, "We cannot approve this for a thesis topic because you've basically already demonstrated a good measure of research on the topic."
I've already turned in a paper proposal to my professor in regards to the research paper that I'm currently working on, so she knows about the topic and that I'm already working on it. Also, I mentioned recently that we had a "conference" thing at our university a couple of Saturdays ago where we had to a short presentation on something. I did a 10 minute preliminary presentation on this paper that I'm working on, . . . so, basically, several of the department professors know about it.
so, the ethical question . . . how acceptable would it be to do a "short" research paper on a given topic (my paper is looking to be about 20 - 22 pages long not including the bibliography) and then turn around and use it as a thesis project? what I'm working on certainly has a great deal of stuff that I could work on on both sides of the argument that I'm taking in my paper. I think that it could easily turn into a huge project some day.
and how likely would the department be to okay turning it into a thesis, a la me coming to them and saying something like, "look, I think that this is really fertile ground that needs to be explored further, and I think it's worth taking a deeper look at."
I'm doubtful that they would allow me to do this, but i'm still considering going to one of the professors in the next few days and saying something about it just to test the waters . . .
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