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Congratulations; you’ve finished your research! Time to write your PhD thesis. This resource will take you through an eight-step plan for drafting your chapters and your thesis as a whole.
Before you start, it’s important to get organised. Take a step back and look at the data you have, then reorganise your research. Which parts of it are central to your thesis and which bits need putting to one side? Label and organise everything using logical folders – make it easy for yourself! Academic and blogger Pat Thomson calls this “Clean up to get clearer” . Thomson suggests these questions to ask yourself before you start writing:
Once you have assessed and sorted what you have collected and generated you will be in much better shape to approach the big task of composing the dissertation.
A key message is a summary of new information communicated in your thesis. You should have started to map this out already in the section on argument and contribution – an overarching argument with building blocks that you will flesh out in individual chapters.
You have already mapped your argument visually, now you need to begin writing it in prose. Following another of Pat Thomson’s exercises, write a “tiny text” thesis abstract. This doesn’t have to be elegant, or indeed the finished product, but it will help you articulate the argument you want your thesis to make. You create a tiny text using a five-paragraph structure:
Here’s an example that Thomson provides:
Secondary school arts are in trouble, as the fall in enrolments in arts subjects dramatically attests. However, there is patchy evidence about the benefits of studying arts subjects at school and this makes it hard to argue why the drop in arts enrolments matters. This thesis reports on research which attempts to provide some answers to this problem – a longitudinal study which followed two groups of senior secondary students, one group enrolled in arts subjects and the other not, for three years. The results of the study demonstrate the benefits of young people’s engagement in arts activities, both in and out of school, as well as the connections between the two. The study not only adds to what is known about the benefits of both formal and informal arts education but also provides robust evidence for policymakers and practitioners arguing for the benefits of the arts. You can find out more about tiny texts and thesis abstracts on Thomson’s blog.
You might not be a planner when it comes to writing. You might prefer to sit, type and think through ideas as you go. That’s OK. Everybody works differently. But one of the benefits of planning your writing is that your plan can help you when you get stuck. It can help with writer’s block (more on this shortly!) but also maintain clarity of intention and purpose in your writing.
You can do this by creating a thesis skeleton or storyboard , planning the order of your chapters, thinking of potential titles (which may change at a later stage), noting down what each chapter/section will cover and considering how many words you will dedicate to each chapter (make sure the total doesn’t exceed the maximum word limit allowed).
Use your plan to help prompt your writing when you get stuck and to develop clarity in your writing.
Some starting points include:
Of course, we wish it werethat easy. But you need to approach your first draft as exactly that: a draft. It isn’t a perfect, finished product; it is your opportunity to start getting words down on paper. Start with whichever chapter you feel you want to write first; you don’t necessarily have to write the introduction first. Depending on your research, you may find it easier to begin with your empirical/data chapters.
Vitae advocates for the “three draft approach” to help with this and to stop you from focusing on finding exactly the right word or transition as part of your first draft.
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The following are general requirements for McGill theses. Academic Units* are encouraged to provide additional written guidance to students outlining expectations of the particular discipline.
Once a thesis is submitted it exists in the public domain unless the candidate and the thesis supervisor request to temporarily withhold a thesis from circulation. Graduate students have the right to use the data they have generated for their thesis. In the event of a of a conflict, the student and thesis supervisor can make a request to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies to temporarily withhold the thesis from circulation (up to one year). This request is made via myThesis at the time of final thesis submission, on the platform. A thesis must be written in English or French, except for those submitted by students in language Units*. McGill University requires that all theses conform to the McGill University specifications for Master’s and Doctoral theses.
The nature of academic research requires adherence to McGill’s policies on research ethics and intellectual property, as described below.
Research involving human participants, animal subjects, micro-organisms, living cells, other biohazards, and/or radioactive materials must have had the appropriate compliance certification. Copies of any certificates of compliance must be retained by the supervisor and student in accordance with McGill’s policies on research ethics. Supervisors indicate on the Nomination of Examiners and Thesis Submission Form that the thesis research has complied with all ethical standards. See the Ethics and Compliance webpage for further information about certification and training requirements.
Any issues regarding intellectual property deriving from the research, leading up to the thesis, or in the completed thesis itself should conform to McGill’s Policy on Inventions and Software . In addition:
Please Note: When previously published copyrighted material is presented in a thesis, the student must obtain signed permissions/waivers from the publisher(s). Permission must also be obtained from co-authors of manuscripts submitted or in preparation for inclusion in the thesis; an email to that effect should suffice.
*Unit refers to a department, a division, a school, an institute, or a Faculty/University-wide program.
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The M.S.E. program is a two year, full-time program of coursework plus submission of an original thesis.
Candidates choose a subarea of computer science on which to focus by taking appropriate courses, and writing a thesis under the direction of an advisor. In order to be readmitted for a second year, candidates must have a confirmed thesis advisor and preliminary thesis proposal by the end of the first year. Students remaining in the MSE program should identify a thesis advisor and submit a 350-500 word thesis proposal abstract (approved by the thesis advisor) by the re-enrollment deadline. Candidates must prepare and submit an original thesis as well as present a public seminar on the research. The thesis will be reviewed and graded by your adviser plus one additional reader from the Princeton faculty. If the reader is from outside the Computer Science Department, approval by the Director of Graduate Studies is required. The public seminar is an ungraded 20 minute talk, followed by a 10 minute question session, given in the spring of Year 2. This will allow your adviser and reader to give preliminary feedback prior to submission of the final thesis. The written thesis should be a research paper of "scholarly quality" -- making a novel contribution to scholarship in the field. The thesis should motivate the chosen research problem, evaluate the proposed solution (e.g., via analysis, measurement, simulation, or prototype implementation), and compare the approach to the related work in the field. While there is no specific length requirement, a reasonable target is a typical conference paper (e.g., 10-15 pages in two-column format or 20-40 pages in single-column, double spaced format).
Thesis is due to the adviser, readers, and Department by December 5, 2023 (December 2023 Graduates only). May 2024 candidates can find Thesis Deadline dates below at the bottom of this page. Students may resubmit their thesis with revisions for final archiving by Dean's Date.
After being graded, a PDF of the thesis should be uploaded to Princeton's ETD Administrator site (ProQuest) just prior to completing the final paperwork for the Graduate School. The PDF should be formatted according to our Dissertation Formatting Requirements (PDF download). The Mudd Library will review and approve the submission upon notification from the Graduate School that your final paperwork is ready for this step. Bound copies are no longer required or accepted for Master's theses.
MSE course requirements are fulfilled by completion of six courses: three Core courses and three Elective courses . Candidates must maintain a B average, with no more than one C allowed. All courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Prior to April 29, 2024: Present the public seminar on your research (email [email protected] with your thesis reader and details such date, time, and abstract). Click here to put your room request in EMS.
April 29, 2024: Thesis due date to Adviser, Reader, and Department ([email protected]) May 7, 2024: (Dean's Date): students can re-submit thesis to Adviser, Readers, and Department with revisions for final archiving May 8, 2024: Thesis grades (Pass/Fail) due to Department from Adviser
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June 11 (UPI) -- A California lifeguard who filed a lawsuit that challenges a requirement to raise a flag that represents the LGBTQ+ community has been granted a partial exemption from that mandate, but says he is not dropping the legal action.
Jeffrey Little, a captain in the Lifeguard Division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, says in the suit that personally raising a Progress Pride flag at his station would be espousing and promoting messages contrary to his religious beliefs as an evangelical Christian.
He alleges the requirement violates federal and state law and his First Amendment rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Little's suit, filed May 24 -- just before Pride Month began -- in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, seeks a standing exemption from raising or lowering the flag from any work site or ordering others to do so, whether in June or any other month, for the entirety of his employment.
The county Fire Department and three of its officials are named as defendants.
The Fire Department issued assurances last week that Little will not be personally responsible for the raising or lowering of the Progress Pride flag as part of his job for the remainder of June, according to attorney Paul Jonna, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that represents the lifeguard captain.
However, the department insisted that Little must still ensure his subordinates comply with the requirement and that he will need to renew his request for a religious accommodation every year, Jonna said Monday.
Wants reasonable accommodation
He pointed out Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of their employees unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer.
The easiest accommodation is to relocate Little to a spot that's not flying the flag, Jonna said, adding, "The burden on the employer for providing the accommodation doesn't even exist."
The case will continue until the constitutional rights of Little and others like him are fully vindicated, Jonna said.
"My understanding is that there are quite a few lifeguards and quite a few other fire department personnel and other county employees who object to these mandates, and there have been several accommodation requests made to the county, in addition to Capt. Little's," he said.
Under a resolution approved in March 2023 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, all county-operated facilities are required to fly the Progress Pride Flag in June, which is recognized as LGBTQ+ Pride month. Sites that do not have adequate flagpoles and flag clasps available to mount the Pride flag are exempted.
The Progress Pride Flag has iconic rainbow stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. In addition, black and brown stripes represent LBGTQ+ communities of color, and the light blue, pink and white stripes from the Transgender Pride Flag that are in a chevron shape to represent a need for forward movement, according to the board's resolution.
Moved to another site
At Little's request, Fire Department officials agreed in June 2023 to move him to a site at which the Progress Pride Flag was not flying and to not require him to raise the flag or ensure that someone else raise the flag, the suit says.
But two days later, before Little arrived at his assigned job area, a section chief allegedly ordered lifeguards at three subareas to raise the flags. Little took down the flags and his accommodation was revoked after that, the suit says.
Since then, L.A. County Fire Department personnel have engaged in retaliation and harassment against Little, who has worked as a lifeguard for more than 22 years, the suit alleges.
"My hope is that this lawsuit encourages productive dialogue between employees of faith and their employers," Little said in a news release. "No employee should be expected to abandon their faith when entering the workplace and unfortunately, I felt backed into a corner where my faith was incompatible with the requirements of my job."
Pride flags have been controversial across the nation.
In Michigan, two members of the Hamtramck Human Relations Commission sued the city after they were removed from their positions last year for raising a Pride flag on a city-owned flagpole.
The Hamtramck City Council unanimously passed a resolution in June 2023 that barred any religious, ethnic, racial, political or sexual orientation group flags from being flown on public properties. The resolution said the city did not want to "open the door for radical or racist groups to ask for their flags to be flown."
On July 9, 2023, Human Relations Commission members Russ Gordon and Cathy Stackpoole raised the Pride flag on a pole on Joseph Compau Avenue. Police took the flag down, and two days later, the City Council passed two resolutions -- one removing the two from the commission and the other rescinding the authority of the commission to maintain and fly flags on city property.
Constitutional rights cited
Gordon and Stackpoole filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First Amendment and seeking orders rescinding the resolutions.
In Colorado, a father alleged that Denver Public Schools engaged in "blatant discrimination" against heterosexual students by allowing Pride flags to be displayed beside classroom doors, but not providing the choice to hang flags that represent his children's sexual orientation.
Nathan Feldman says in a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado that he does not take issue with the Pride Flag displays, but simply wants to provide a straight pride flag for display in front of his children's classroom at Slavens School.
The flag he wants displayed has the male and female gender symbols on it. District officials and teachers have disregarded or refused Feldman's request to hang the flag, the suit alleges.
"DPS' LGBTQ Policy discriminates against students by way of only vesting the right and choice to display flags that inherently and definitionally include some students and exclude other students on the basis of sex," the suit says.
Feldman, who alleges he and his children "have experienced, and will continue to experience, irreparable harm, mental anguish, pain, suffering, and other pecuniary and non-economic losses," is seeking at least $3 million in damages.
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For graduation with Master's degree, the student should have a weighted average grade of at least "2.00" in all courses taken provided there is no grade of "5.0". In addition, candidates for the Master of Science in Public Health must have a weighted average grade of "2.00" or better in the major courses.
A graduate student may apply for transfer of credits for work done in another university or institution of higher learning. He must present credentials showing that he enrolled and earned graduate credit in graduate courses equivalent to those given in the University of the Philippines for which advanced credit is sought. He must pass validating tests or fulfill other validating requirements prescribed by the department concerned.
If, for some reason, a graduate course (or its equivalent) required in the graduate program of a student is not available at the time the student needs it, he may, with the written permission of his dean, duly recorded by the Registrar, enroll in the subject in another university or institution of higher learning and earn graduate credit toward the Master's degree after fulfilling validating requirements in the department concerned.
Graduate credit for work done in another university shall not exceed nine (9) units required for graduation with the Master's degree.
A full academic load per semester shall be 12-18 units of credit courses. A working student may not take more than 6 units of either course work or thesis.
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Only students who have finished all the required formal courses in his/her program of study may enroll in the thesis course. In programs requiring a comprehensive examination, students must also pass this requirement before he/she is allowed to enroll in the thesis course. Students lacking not more than four (4) units of the required courses to complete his/her program of study may be allowed to enroll in the master's thesis with the consent of the adviser.
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A thesis is a long-form piece of academic writing, often taking more than a full semester to complete. It is generally a degree requirement for Master's programs, and is also sometimes required to complete a bachelor's degree in liberal arts colleges.
Step 2: Write your initial answer. After some initial research, you can formulate a tentative answer to this question. At this stage it can be simple, and it should guide the research process and writing process. The internet has had more of a positive than a negative effect on education.
Tips for Writing Your Thesis Statement. 1. Determine what kind of paper you are writing: An analytical paper breaks down an issue or an idea into its component parts, evaluates the issue or idea, and presents this breakdown and evaluation to the audience.; An expository (explanatory) paper explains something to the audience.; An argumentative paper makes a claim about a topic and justifies ...
Formatting Requirement and Standards. The Graduate School sets the minimum format for your thesis or dissertation, while you, your special committee, and your advisor/chair decide upon the content and length. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, and other mechanical issues are your sole responsibility. Generally, the thesis and dissertation should ...
How to Tell a Strong Thesis Statement from a Weak One 1. A strong thesis statement takes some sort of stand. Remember that your thesis needs to show your conclusions about a subject. For example, if you are writing a paper for a class on fitness, you might be asked to choose a popular weight-loss product to evaluate. Here are two thesis statements:
7. Mandatory Thesis Archiving — Required of all Harvard Graduate Students and Part of Your Graduation Requirements. Once your thesis is finalized, meaning that the required grade has been earned and all edits have been completed, you must upload your thesis to Harvard University's electronic thesis and dissertation submission system (ETDs).
A good thesis has two parts. It should tell what you plan to argue, and it should "telegraph" how you plan to argue—that is, what particular support for your claim is going where in your essay. Steps in Constructing a Thesis. First, analyze your primary sources. Look for tension, interest, ambiguity, controversy, and/or complication.
Thesis. Your thesis is the central claim in your essay—your main insight or idea about your source or topic. Your thesis should appear early in an academic essay, followed by a logically constructed argument that supports this central claim. A strong thesis is arguable, which means a thoughtful reader could disagree with it and therefore ...
A thesis statement . . . Makes an argumentative assertion about a topic; it states the conclusions that you have reached about your topic. Makes a promise to the reader about the scope, purpose, and direction of your paper. Is focused and specific enough to be "proven" within the boundaries of your paper. Is generally located near the end ...
A thesis statement: tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. is a road map for the paper; in other words, it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper. directly answers the question asked of you. A thesis is an interpretation of a question or subject, not the subject itself.
A PhD thesis usually spans 200-300 pages, though this can vary based on the discipline, complexity of the research, and institutional requirements. 3: How to find thesis topics? To identify a thesis topic, consider current trends in your field, gaps in existing literature, personal interests, and discussions with advisors or mentors.
A note on departmental requirements. This list describes only Graduate College requirements for student theses. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign confers graduate degrees in over 100 units, and many of these departments have additional, discipline-specific format requirements.
Thesis is an important academic document that serves several purposes. Here are some of the applications of thesis: Academic Requirement: A thesis is a requirement for many academic programs, especially at the graduate level. It is an essential component of the evaluation process and demonstrates the student's ability to conduct original ...
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION. As a requirement in a student's graduate education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a thesis or dissertation serves the primary purpose of training the student in the processes of scholarly research and writing under the direction of members of the graduate faculty. After the student has graduated and the ...
A thesis can be written and organized either in the traditional monograph style or the manuscript (article) based style. It cannot be a mixture of the two. Theses must conform to the requirements of Library and Archives Canada. These requirements are listed below. In either monograph or manuscript format, the thesis must contain methodology ...
The purpose of this document is to state the formal requirements which must be met by NYU Tandon School of Engineering students who are required to submit a Master's Thesis to qualify for the M.S. degree, as described in the. NYU Tandon School of Engineering bulletin for a particular academic program. thesis is basically composed of two parts ...
Below the title, at the vertical and horizontal center of the margins, place the following five lines (all centered): Line 1: A Dissertation [or Thesis] Line 2: Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School. Line 3: of Cornell University. Line 4: in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of.
A thesis is a common requirement in many research-focused fields, but not every master's program will require you to complete one. Additionally, some fields allow you to choose between a thesis and a non-thesis track. In the case of a non-thesis program, you won't have to write a lengthy paper, but you will have to take more classes to meet ...
Most doctoral programs have other requirements for completion of the degree, such as a certain number of course hours and the passing of qualifying exams. Hence, while the dissertation is the culmination of the doctoral program, on its own it does not satisfy all the requirements for graduation.
If you are a student in the Doctor of Musical Arts program, you may submit musical scores formatted at 11 x 17 inches in size. If you are submitting a performance as your dissertation, submit the audio file in WAV format as a supplemental file. Note: The maximum file size accepted for submission is 100 MB.
Once you begin thesis hours, you must be continuously enrolled every term, including Summer, until you complete the thesis requirement. Because you will almost certainly not be able to propose, research, write, revise, and defend a thesis in a single terms, you should plan on completing the thesis requirement over two terms, preferably the Fall ...
Requirements. Iowa State University thesis/dissertation reviewers will check all theses and dissertations submitted to ProQuest after the student passes their Final Oral Exam. Where the submitted mansucript fails to meet one or more requirements, the reviewer will issue a request for revisions. Students must implement these revisions and ...
It often starts with "But", "Yet" or "However". The third sentence says what specific research has been done. This often starts with "This research" or "I report…". The fourth sentence reports the results. Don't try to be too tricky here, just start with something like: "This study shows," or "Analysis of the data ...
The following are general requirements for McGill theses. Academic Units* are encouraged to provide additional written guidance to students outlining expectations of the particular discipline. Once a thesis is submitted it exists in the public domain unless the candidate and the thesis supervisor request to temporarily withhold a thesis from circulation. Graduate students have the right to use ...
Thesis Requirement Candidates choose a subarea of computer science on which to focus by taking appropriate courses, and writing a thesis under the direction of an advisor. In order to be readmitted for a second year, candidates must have a confirmed thesis advisor and preliminary thesis proposal by the end of the first year.
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Master's degree requirements. To earn a master's degree, you will need to complete several semesters of coursework, among other requirements. Let's go over the general expectations. ... If, however, you're studying a humanities subject, a thesis might make more sense. Once you are enrolled in a program, an advisor or director should help ...
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Master's Thesis Requirements. Only students who have finished all the required formal courses in his/her program of study may enroll in the thesis course. In programs requiring a comprehensive examination, students must also pass this requirement before he/she is allowed to enroll in the thesis course. Students lacking not more than four (4 ...
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