For Graduate Students: Creating an Effective CV
Dissertation Abstract
A separate page at the end of the CV. Briefly summarize content, placing your work within its scholarly context, and noting its contribution to the field. Your abstract should be:
- Comprehensible to people outside your field
- Scholarly enough to interest people in your field
Where to Find Examples of Thesis Abstracts
- To review thesis abstracts online, go to http://libraries.mit.edu/vera
Choose "databases" and search for keyword "dissertation." See "Dissertation Abstracts" on the FirstSearch database.
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