Monday 7 May 2018

Thesis structure

Attended academic writing sessions: 'Thesis Structure' & 'How not to write' on 11 July 2008. Herewith my notes:

Thesis Structure
Structure: the interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity; a notion / reality covering the recognition.

Categories of knowledge in thesis writing:
1. Why am I doing this? Reasons?
2. What is known and unknown?
3. What is my intention to discover / investigate?
4. What are my methods? 
EXPLORATION 
5. What have I found?
6. What does it mean? (to you? to everybody else?)
7. So what? Possible applications / recommendations? What contribution doest it make to knowledge? What's next? 
RESULTS
 
Proportion of thesis: 
Percentage 
Words 
Introduction (write as a whole at the end)
Methods (write competantly instead of tentatively)
Findings
Discussion (the significant of your findings)/analysis
Conclusion (second last)
10% - 20% (very conceptual subject)
around 20% (has to be very detailed)
10% - 20%
30% - 40%
20%
8000 - 16000
16000
8000 - 16000
24000 - 32000
16000
The two 'pillars' of thesis structure: INTRODUCTION & CONCLUSION

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