LibGuides: Theses and Dissertations: Help with thesis writing

Help with thesis writing and formatting

The UON Office of Graduate Research offers a range of Research support services that you can access via their booking system including peer support, research computing and a variety of workshops.

You can also find a range of forms, guidelines and policies and guides to help you format your thesis on the Graduate Research site.

Academic Learning Support provide help with Study Skills, Writing Skills, Maths and Stats, as well as Research Writing.

Copyright is an important part of academic writing and the Libray has created a range of resources that will provide general information for staff and students of UON.

The Library Data Management guide will provide information and resources to assist with planning, managing, storing, sharing and publishing research data.

Other helpful thesis polices and guidelines include;

eBooks

Sage Research Methods Online
Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help them design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method

Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation (Book and ebook)
Graduate students often struggle with turning qualitative research projects into a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation because the research itself is inherently messy. Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation: A Roadmap From Beginning to End, Second Edition helps address that challenge
Dissertation Solutions: A concise guide to planning, implementing, and surviving the dissertation process (Book and ebook)
This thorough, but concise guide will help even the most naive graduate student become experts in navigating and surviving their graduate experiences.
Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation or Thesis Faster (Book and ebook)
Building on years of experience with their own doctoral students, the authors have developed an extremely comprehensive, yet easy-to-use tool, which includes unique features like encouraging student reflection, student stories, hints and tips, end-of-chapter checklists, and ideas for incorporating social media.
Detox Your Writing
Provides a practical, theorised, real-world, guide to postgraduate writing.
Helping Doctoral Students Write
By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations
Milestone Moments in Getting Your PhD
Gives examples of methodologies, their advantages and disadvantages
Practice As Research
Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research.
Research & Writing in International Relations
Guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry.
Research Methods for Business & Management
Taking you through the entire life cycle of a dissertation, the text covers everything from the purposes of research through to chapters on quantitative and qualitative research
Routledge Companion to Design Research
A comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating the plurality of design research and the wide range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.
Research Methods for Accounting and Finance
Demystifies the research process by providing the novice researcher with a must-have guide through all of the stages of the research process, from identifying a research topic to the finished project. Jargon-free and written in a user-friendly style, it utilises a variety of methods to carefully link the subject matter and topics.