Posting Your Dissertation Haiku

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Dissertations can be long and boring. By contrast, everybody likes haiku. So why not post your dissertation as a haiku? Be sure to include your discipline, the name of your institution, a sentence or two in plain English about what you do, and any email address or link you’d like to associate with your post.  We’re kinda picky about meter here at dissertation haiku, so please make sure your haiku poem fits the 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

​Haiku versus the Elevator Speech

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Has your chair or other committee members asked you to prepare an elevator speech about the subject of your dissertation yet?  Was that a challenge? The dissertation haiku is a creative version of the elevator speech that is fun, poetic and will help you think about you subject in a focused way while at the same time creating something that is fun! Give it a try!

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Dissertation Haiku in the News!

​​​           Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku
“One of my old professors liked to say that a poem isn’t any good unless you can explain it to a three-year-old. I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.” 
Full Article in Huffington Post 
John Lundberg Writer, Poetry Teacher
09/30/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated Nov 17, 2011
        Dissertations are Long and Boring​
"This indisputable fact is the impetus behind the genius blog Dissertation Haiku, which explains itself thus: Dissertations are long and boring. By contrast everyone likes haiku. So why not write your dissertation as a haiku?
Full Article in The New Yorker 
Macy Halford  Contributor
09/23/2009

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