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Anatomy of a Doctoral Thesis
Front matter, body, back matter - what actually appears in an examined thesis, in what order, based on the full contents pages of real doctoral work rather than a template.
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research writing
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged research writing. 8 pages.
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Drawing Conclusions From Your Results
Limit conclusions to what the results support, give equal weight to negative findings, and treat post hoc analyses as explanatory - three disciplines that are harder than they s…
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The Discussion Guidelines
Primary analyses first, statistical significance, weaknesses and strengths, generalisability - the ordered guidelines the source gives, including the one that contradicts its ow…
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Thesis Structures and Styles
A stated learning objective the supplied source does not deliver on — what can honestly be reconstructed from the structure observed in the exemplar volume, and what cannot.
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Thesis Structures Compared: Five Worked Examples
A monograph, a two-review thesis, a portfolio of papers, a journal article and a conference paper set side by side - what each format demands and what it costs.
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What Does Not Belong in the Results Section
The source states its central rule about interpretation three incompatible ways across five slides. All three are given here, and the conflict is left standing.
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Writing the Discussion Section
Where findings are put into context and the reader is left to make up their own mind - the purpose of the discussion, and the trap of writing much with little substance.
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Writing the Results Section
Findings without interpretation, in a logical sequence, in the past tense - what the results section is for, what belongs in it, and the sequence the source sets out.
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