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What is a Thesis?

When I ask students to bring me a copy of a thesis from the library, they’ll come back with a 200 or 300 page document. ‘Thesis’ in this...

Structuring Thesis Chapters: The Introductory/ Concluding Paragraphs

Introductory paragraph A chapter’s introductory paragraph can serve a number of distinctive functions. It can: show the relationship of...

Guidelines to PhD Examination

There's one other thing to keep in mind. Your examiners will have received guidelines for examining your thesis, so you need to be...

Reviewing Your Final Draft

Before submitting your thesis for examination, you and your supervisors might want to review your final draft against the following...

What Examiners Look for: Seven Things to Remember

From the outset of your candidacy it's important to be developing your writing and presentation skills, because eventually you will be...

Thesis Introduction: First to be Drafted Last to be Finalized.

In terms of writing, Introductions are often the first to be drafted, and last to be finalised. we’re usually still re-adjusting the...

Thesis-As-Artifact: Your Thesis, Your Product

What you say and how you say it are interrelated, and come together in your final written product. From this perspective, it can be...

Review of 'the Literature' or Literatures?

" Keep in mind that the aim of it all is to have a thesis: a position or argument you wish to establish—a major claim you want to...