References useful to read for writing PhD Thesis
Author: Chng Eng Siong
Dated: 29 April 2015, last edited :25 Jan 2017
A)Write the content page, and subsection of a Thesis.
- Then include all the questions to be answered for each chapter/section.
B)References: How to organize and write a PhD Thesis
See the mindMap (PhD_Thesis_Writing_MindMapv1.pdf) I have created, and linking to the following references:
1)HansZappe, 2012: “How to write a phD Thesis”
2)Chinneck, 1999, “How to organize your thesis”,
3)Daniel Ratiu et al, 2010,“Hints for writing a phD thesis – a pattern oriented approach”
4)Easterbrook, 1992, “How thesis get written: some cool tips”
5)Priya, 2006, “How to write a Good (no Great) PhD dissertation”,
6)Frazer, “Structuring your thesis”,
7)Faryadi,”How to write your PhD proposal: a step by step guide”
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The above article by Eisner [John Hopkins] shares idea of how to organise content into the thesis. So this paper is a bit more about the mechanics of it all.
9)Australia QU’s link – how to structure a thesis
C)Videos about writing: If you have problems writing – see coursera course (writing in the science, by Kristin Sainani) especially the “cut the clutter bit”
D)How to do Lit survey: how to do literature survey: see
E)Some help about writing English (at a sentence, paragraph level)
a)Check out what is a paragraph, structure of a sentence in
This is a great book written for Scienc/Eng students from Hanyang University
(readCh 2 for sentence structure, and Ch 3 for paragraph structure)
b)Hamilton College:
c)Some suggestions about clarity, conciseness, etc:
F)Tools to support writing:
-The above paper discuss tools that help ease your writing, organizing, keeping your papers read, (docear, mindeley), latex, mind-mapping tools, etc
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- Latex - and the
IDE TexStudio
c.For Lit Review:
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G)Pagiarism checker – so don’t copy verbatim.
We will check your thesis! Currently using iThenticate
My own opinions of writing a thesis
1) Clearly identify the research question
- motivate why this question is important, by studying this problem, what can we gain?
- who has performed research on this
- break the prior works by class of techniques, analyse their differences,
And similarity, and finally their weakness. This should be a broader overview as compared to (2) later on.
-Because of these existing weaknesses, that s the reason for this work.
2) When describing your work
- describe clearly what you are trying to solve, its scope, constraint and assumption,
- who (which prior research) are most closely related to your work
and why/how they are related. This is a more detailed version than (1) – do not repeat.
- describe your work and discuss why you work is different to previous – how shall I show that it’s a good and novel contribution. What are the corpuses for competitions, expts, and their measures used.
- whats the conclusions
3) if you have multiple works, repeat (2) and tie them together for (1). Remember that you are writing a single coherent story to solve a problem with multiple faceted approach, techniques, constraint, that are complimentary.