How to Write a Better Thesis

Summary of Chapter 5: The Introductory Chapter 71 does it still describe what you are doing? I suggest that you have a good look ...

72 5 The Introductory Chapter Aim and Scope Be sure that your aim responds logically to the problem statement. Stick rigorously ...

73 Chapter 6 Background Chapters Depending on the nature of your thesis, the background sections or chapters can take any of sev ...

74 6 Background Chapters Developing Critical Thinking......................................................................... O ...

Developing Critical Thinking 75 tral problem, but you do not need not to write about all of them in full. Keep in mind the aim a ...

76 6 Background Chapters Establishing Context Tony was writing a thesis on the usefulness of laser grading of irrigated farmland ...

Understanding Current Theory, Discoveries, and Debates 77 What a mistake! First, few people, anywhere in the world, will be as f ...

78 6 Background Chapters Throughout this second section of your review, keep in mind that you are engag- ing in a conversation w ...

Revising 79 You may then even undertake some preliminary investigation of this baseline, to establish its strengths and limitati ...

80 6 Background Chapters You understand the links between your own work and the work of others who went before you. You now kno ...

Summary of Chapter 6: Background Chapters 81 because she felt she had to describe the work appearing in 120 different papers. Wh ...

82 6 Background Chapters In some cases, preliminary reviews, surveys, correlations, and experiments fol- lowing what other work ...

83 Chapter 7 Establishing Your Contribution Think back to when you began your research project. In all likelihood, you wanted to ...

84 7 Establishing Your Contribution Kinds of Contribution I continue to be amazed by the breadth of kinds of contribution that r ...

Study or Case Study? 85 To arrive at a narrative, it helps to have an understanding of how your project might be characterized. ...

86 7 Establishing Your Contribution example, there is a clear focus on potatoes: because they are important to the food industry ...

Study or Case Study? 87 Background: Set out the history and culture of Vanuatu with a focus on diet. Demonstrate an understandin ...

88 7 Establishing Your Contribution may be that you spend so much time developing ideas around your case-study area that you wil ...

Method 89 post-modernist perspective? Are you undertaking to construct a ‘feminist reading’ of the incidences that you have witn ...

90 7 Establishing Your Contribution when, for example, the same phenomenon might cause multiple effects, and differ- ent methods ...