Thesis Acknowledgements: If There Was No Such Chapter
Imagine that you do not have to write acknowledgements in a thesis. Would you be happy to hear this news? Maybe, you would. After all, you do not have to spend other a few hours working on the project that you are, obviously, tired of. However, is the lack of thesis acknowledgements a really good feature of your project? Let us discuss this briefly.

If you do not have thesis acknowledgements…

You will not be able to express your gratitude to “the best advisor ever”. Do you really think it is fair? Your advisor is a person who helped you at every stage of the working process, who helped to defend your proposal when the committee wanted to give it back for revision, who assisted you in finding that rare book, and did many other useful things for you. Do you not think he/she is worth to be mentioned in thesis acknowledgements?

If you do not have thesis acknowledgements…

You cannot say “big thanks to the library staff” that helped you so much with resources. Only imagine, at some point librarians were thinking “Oh, that crazy thesis writer again! And again I will be late for my fave TV series”. But, each time when you came, they stayed as long as you needed it trying to help you find necessary books, journal articles, etc. It would be very impolite not to mention them in thesis acknowledgements.

If you do not have thesis acknowledgements…

Your “eternal gratitude” will not go to other guys from your department who were always ready to answer your questions, no matter how stupid they were. They will be glad to see their names in your thesis acknowledgements.
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