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Prompt
Explain your thesis
Higher Ed · Any subject · Present or perform
What students see
Explain your thesis to someone outside your field. What is the question, how are you answering it, and what have you found so far? Avoid jargon.
Why it works
Explaining research to an outsider shows whether the argument is clear without the jargon. It also gives graduate students a version they can reuse for conferences and job talks.
How to run it
- Add it to your Space. The Topic comes with this prompt and these settings, and you can edit both.
- Share the Topic link with your students.
- Watch the posts come in. They appear to everyone as soon as students publish.
Make it yours
Run it each term so students can hear their project take shape. Invite students from other departments to comment on what they did not understand.