Saturday, February 23, 2008

What is it with students?

OK -- you get in the trouble of contacting me with a question related to my doctoral dissertation that you have sitting in front of you. How flattering! Someone actually was interested enough to buy (and hopefully read?) my brainchild.
Now don't spoil the good news with 1) incredibly bad manners and 2) incredulously thick questions.
So to attend to 1, do follow proper email etiquette. By this I mean use a basic "Hi (FirstName)" salutation when you address someone you don't know over email. And while we are at it, please resist the temptation of (inadvertently) offending me by ascribing my brainchild to someone else... Thank you.
To attend to 2, just do not expect people to give you ready answers to q's they belabored for a while! It is called a doctoral dissertation for a reason! I didn't spend one day, one month or even one year on it, dude. Since you have bought it, do me a favor and actually read it or at least browse through its pages. What else can I say. Then, once you are in a place to form intelligent and respectful questions, come back to me. It is call "research" for a reason!

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