Masters Thesis: Tell Me About Yours!

[The Young Pioneer]

I'm currently trying to figure out my topic and I'd love to hear what other people have done. I'm not sure about how specific it should be, how popular the subject should already be, etc.

I have a couple ideas myself but I'm worried that there's not enough information out there for what I'm interested in. This could work to my advantage (ie- become one of the first to publish something about the topic), but it could also be a disadvantage (the topic might not have enough sources to back it up or make it a feasible thesis).

Not gonna share my topic thoughts as it's related to controversial history and this isn't the place on Revleft to begin a tendency war. :lol:

But any general advice about thesis brain storming, writing, etc. would be much appreciated. If you've written one yourself I'd be especially interested in hearing about your process. Anyone who answers seriously will be thanked!

Edit: Yeah, I know, gonna be in debt up to my ears, what are you doing, Young Pioneer, bourging up Revleft, blahblahblah. I've dug my grave as a poli sci BA already.

Edit 2 Re: Masters of the Arts, let's say, Regional Studies (history/culture focused).

[o well this is ok I guess]

Well
what are you getting your masters in

[Thirsty Crow]

Officialy, I have two theses (don't ask why I'm being forced to produce two papers), though they can hardly be called theses since they're more of a broad choice of topic with little specifics (one concerning a novel by Alasdair Gray entitled Lanark, the basic idea being to examine how realist and fantastic paradigms interact and how are they constituted; the other is even more general, about the cultral theorist Raymond Williams in general, but I plan to include a discussion on the potential of Marxist cultural criticism in relation to his work).

I can't actually provide any advice since what I went through wasn't really a brainstorming process or anything like that - I simply decided that I'm going to choose something which is at least little interesting and I've come up with that. The other topic (Williams) I actually didn't come up with, but was recommended to me by my mentor (I wanted to write in general about Marxist literary criticism, but that would take much more space than I can afford).

As far as your concern with regard to sources goes, I think it would be an advantage only if you're planning to remain in one way or another connected to the academia. If not, well, you could have a hell of a hard time with writing the paper (as I'll probably have with Lanark). You should probably make a list of possible sources, even "phony" ones just to extend your reference list, so that your paper could be submitted, before deciding on the concrete topic.

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