Commentary

A Reply to Let’s End This Dissertation Dissipation

by Tom Griffiths •

February 2005, no. 268

Commentary

A Reply to Let’s End This Dissertation Dissipation

by Tom Griffiths •

February 2005, no. 268

n The Australian’s Higher Education Supplement of 3 November 2004, Louise Adler of Melbourne University Publishing argued that young scholarly writers have been ‘abandoned by the academy’. Tom Griffiths replies to her article, which was titled ‘Let’s End This Dissertation Dissipation’:

Tom Griffiths

Tom Griffiths is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University. His prize-winning books include Hunters and Collectors, Forests of Ash and Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. His latest book, The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft, was released by Black Inc. in July 2016.