Resources
Here are some useful resources to help with your studies. The list is only to get you started, and you need to always ensure that your thesis prepaparation complies with your own university requirements:
Dr Levine from Michigan State University, USA has a very useful list of suggestions for writing and presenting a thesis or dissertation.
University of Ottawa, Canada has a great thesis peparation checklist on their website.
Prof Chinneck from Carleton University, Canada has some straightforward suggestions for Engineering students on how to organise a thesis but is worth a read as there are some relevance for thesis preparation generally e.g., what thesis sections should be about, and what examiners are looking for.
And of course there is much to be found in Australia:
University of South Australia's, Writing as part of the research process.
Charles Sturt University's, Approaching an action research thesis.
University of Woolongong's, Timelines and supervision for Law students.
University of Technology, Sydney's, Guide to writing a research proposal.
University of Western Australia has a great site on Writing research proposals.
There are many books available to you. Here are two:
1. David Evans and Paul Gruba, How to write a better thesis, 2nd edition, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007.
2. Barbara Kamler and Pat Thomson, Helping doctoral students write: pedagogies for supervision, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2006.
RMIT has a guideline for exmainers marking theses available on line. University of Queensland thesis examination procedure is also on line. It is worth a read to get a sense of what examiners are required to assess. All universities will have similar requirements and standards.
Finally, you may want to take some time to look at the Australian Digital Theses Program as theses are increasingly becoming accessible on line, and there are useful links from this site on how to prepare your thesis digitally for inclusion into the program.
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