I'm having some problems getting started on my dissertation, and I was hoping you could give me some advice on how to begin.

我的论文开题遇到了一些问题，希望你能给我一些开题的建议。

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I'm supposed to have handed in a first draft of my dissertation.

我本应将论文初稿交上去。

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I'm having some problems getting started on my dissertation and I was hoping you could give me some advice on how to begin.

我在开始写论文时遇到了一些问题，我希望你能给我一些如何开始的建议。

youdao

So I wrote my dissertation on Byron as a result of that-- nothing complicated, no deep reason for doing these things.

所以我论文写的就是关于拜伦的-,没有太多的考虑，就是因为我喜欢。

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So, that's basically it. Just because I have my dissertation to write, so

就是这样。因为我还有论文要写，所以

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In fact, there is no such statement, nor anything related to that, in my dissertation.

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While doing my dissertation I learned a few things about world crops.

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