Loved this piece on the acknowledgements sections of dissertations. I had to dig mine out to re-read what I wrote. Ah, the sincerity!
@sciencewriters.org: Good choice in including this as an honorable mention in the Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards!
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After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.