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July 2006 - Posts

The 5 questions that every thesis needs to answer

There are five questions that need to be answered in every thesis, regardless of discipline: What is the problem? Why is it interesting? What did you do? What did you find? What do your findings mean? This particular examiner's comment relates to the
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Good writing is clear and concise

It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of good writing. Here is one examiner's comment that summarizes nicely what so many of them feel. "The thesis is unweildy and overlong. It is desperately in need of editing. There are huge slabs of quotations
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The function of the wrapper chapters in a thesis submitted as a collection of papers

At UWA, a thesis can be presented as a series of papers . When a thesis is submitted in this way, the papers must be "wrapped" by at least two sections: A General Introduction which sets out the context of the thesis and explains the organisation and
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