Wednesday, January 9, 2013

3. Dedication time differences.

First, I wish to introduce you with some terms. The following historical definition for "Doctor" comes from Wikipedia:

"The Ph.D. was originally a degree granted by a university to learned individuals who had achieved the approval of their peers and who had demonstrated a long and productive career in the field of philosophy (in the broad sense of the term philosophy, the pursuit of knowledge). The appellation of "Doctor" (from Latin: teacher) was usually awarded only when the individual was in middle age. It indicated a life dedicated to learning, to knowledge, and to the spread of knowledge.
The Ph.D. entered widespread use in the 19th century at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin as a degree to be granted to someone who had undertaken original research in the sciences or humanities."

It was initially the aim to a Doctorate Degree: a Ph. D would be "Person who teachs, achieving a remarkable work as a result of his love of wisdom". However, actual Doctor degrees aim to other target. In the definition above, the time is not introduced, even noted, but most Universities coins the "due time" term, in order to acomplish their project dues and research results. A number between 5 and 6 years (like Medicine and Law) of formation to achieve a Doctor degree is required to be a professor, even for school teachers. Commonly, this requisite was fitted for a Master-degree graduate, and this would fix henceforth. But worse, they claims for shorter-time Ph.D. degrees, with same salary and investment of a Master or even a Bachelor. The concluding remark, industry pushes universities to outcome inventors, research leaders, managers, art direcfree tors and producers from barely nothing, with an investment only compared to a bachelor. As result, we will observe the spreading of intelectually-unmatured leaders with a worthless Ph.D. degree: not-willing-to-teach young people, lasting 3-5 years, performing everything what a tenured tutor require to finish some project.
 
So, time would not be a evaluating matter for achieving a Ph.D. degree. The M.Sc and Ph.D theses are suggested to be like compilatory albums, once the Single/Album has been published and referenced/cited. It is the reason for considering a very long time between thesis proposal and its dissertation. For M.Sc process, several proceeding papers and one journal paper compilation are suggested. A compilation of several journal papers is suggested for a Ph.D thesis. It provides the thesis impact by the importance and number of the references/citations for each publication. Moreover, a connection between M.Sc and Ph.D works is accomplished, since compilations of Ph.D thesis are provided by compilations of the respective M.Sc.

A remarkable example came into light past november 2013:
"Coventry University reports that on Nov. 19, Tony Iommi will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Arts at the university in celebration of his widespread musical influence on the world as the guitarist of Black Sabbath. Alongside Iommi, the Jordanian Princess, Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali, and artist George Shaw will also be awarded honorary doctorates at the ceremony for their respective contributions.
Tony Iommi is not the first metal or rock musician to be awarded an honorary doctorate, and now joins contemporaries like Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson and Brian May of Queen. Dickinson was awarded an Honrorary Doctorate of Music from Queen Mary University in 2011 and May received an Honorory Doctorate of Science in 2002 from Hertfordshire University. May has also earned his Ph. D in astrophysics from Imperial College in 2007."

http://youtu.be/QaktdxczhXE

So differing from music production, a researcher should not expect that their relevant work happens with the first article. For a musician, producing a hit in the first record is important, because this song or album keeps intact in the culture for larger time, unless for a remasterization. For scientific production, the work is cited, improved and rebuild through the time. So, the researcher can be involved with a sole research area through his whole work.
A relationship between both processes can be related to the childhood learning process. A child takes 2 years since birth to talk, and 5 years to properly talk to the world. So, the former time interval is considered for the M.Sc. process and the latter for the Ph.D. Note that the adequate way to achieve a short learning time is carrying out the M.Sc. process into the Ph.D. one. It would lead to a 2-year interval for the Masters and the remaining 3 for the Ph.D. Therefore, it is recommended that research areas for M.Sc. and Ph.D. processes are the same. As for children, this is the only way to achieve a successful communication.

This is coined as the "third album theorem ". It means, that the best produced/worked album for a music band is the third one. It directly relates the bachelor-master-doctorate degree, with the first-second-third albums, respectively.

One can find differences among the different education levels (highschool, undergraduate. Postgraduate, doctorate) by detecting common errors in semantic, expression level or even orthographic mistakes. However, the main aspect to detect the depth level of the report is the level of research worked on it. To give a comparison, I give the following "Homo" species in the knowledge:

  • Homo Sapiens: The man who knows - related to the highschool last-year level students.
  • Homo Habilis: The man who makes - related to a professional bachelor level. The undergraduate student finishes a task to demonstrate that he has the ability to accomplish something, obtaining a degree.
  • Homo Propono: The man who proposes -  related to the Master's student, who proposes an idea or methodology to solve something. It differs from the Homo Habilis in the ability to resolve something by his proper idea, instead of an order or command.
  • Homo Novationem: The man who innovates - it is the person who initiates his work as a scientist and professor. This person is in charge of giving an idea different and novel from the others to solve something. 

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