Comments on: On reading (and writing) the acknowledgements page

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:57 +0000

Thanks, Kristie, and good luck!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:41:41 +0000

This has given me the laugh I need as I sit up late at nights trying desperately to finish my honours thesis with the view of one day accomplishing a PhD. I try not to think too much about who I would love to strangle for hindering…I mean helping me during this phases.

Congrats on getting it finished.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:21:08 +0000

Just wanted to acknowledge all the kind things said on this thread!

By: Sacha

Sacha — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:24:41 +0000

I obtained a job outside academia a few months before submitting the thesis. Best thing I ever did.

By: Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:37:33 +0000

Pergratum est mihi quod tam diligenter librum magisteri bloggi scribum consummatumque est.

Ave, O Doctore!

By: Penthe

Penthe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:05:16 +0000

QUT, in my fevered memory at least, is a much more difficult place to reside than the ‘real world’. Congratulations on completing you PhD.

Perhaps you should also include an unacknowledgements page. You could leave it blank, but all people who know in their hearts that they were supposed to help you, but didn’t, would know where they belong (if not present in the acknowledgements page).

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:36:16 +0000

Liam — Also not technically an acknowledgement (well it is really, if only in a literal sense) but let’s not forget the famously creepy dedication page to the famously creepy “House of Leaves”: to wit — “This is not for you.”

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:09 +0000

Not quite an acknowledgement, but you can’t go past Shane Maloney’s disclaimer at the beginning of The Big Ask.

The author of this book, its settings and its characters are entirely fictitious. There is no such place as Melbourne. The Australian Labor Party exists only in the imagination of its own members…

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:53:53 +0000

I think The Amazing Criswell furnished us with the definitive comprehensive acknowledgement when he sweepingly declared in his inimitable style: “The incidents! The places! My friends we cannot keep this a secret any longer! Let us punish the guilty; let us reward the innocent.”

Dr. Cat: ‘…dodgy “PhD by Thinly Disguised Autobiography”…’

Well I say why not. After all, if we can have US Presidency by Dodgy Autobiography, anything’s game…

By: Mark Chorlton

Mark Chorlton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:21:08 +0000

Congratulations Mark. I remember that a “manic phase” during my PhD was mild depression!