Writing a proposal for an LLM/PhD thesis: what do you need to think about?
UniKat: Working hard ... not to fall asleep Several students are currently busy choosing or will shortly choose topics to develop in the context of their own university theses and dissertations, including at the LLM/master level and in the context of PhD proposals/early stages of their PhDs. Often, students have to submit a ‘Proposal’, which tackles how they intend to develop their work . The allowed word count for a thesis/dissertation varies: it is approximately somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000 words for an LLM dissertation and 75,000-100,000 words for a PhD. The funny thing about LLM/PhD proposals is that one is expected to know what they are going to write about before they have done all the required research and actually know what needs to be written about. Several books and articles have been written on how to develop a good piece of academic research, whether as a student or as a professional researcher. However...