Structure of a PhD/ dissertation Thesis

Oct 21th, 2022

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Dr Tushar Chauhan

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A thesis is required for a PhD. Students often fail to understand its importance and therefore can’t justify it. Here is a story on how you can structure your thesis.

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Your thesis should start with the table of content. Here you have to enlist important pages, chapters, topics and sub-topics of the thesis with page numbers.

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Table of content

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Enlist tables you have used in the thesis with its name, number and page number. This helps the examiner to navigate.

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List of tables

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Enlist every figure with its name, number and page number. Again it is for a better navigation purpose.

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List of figures

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Enlist the common abbreviations you have used throughout the thesis. Make a table and list it with their full names.

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Abbreviations

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Introduce the topic briefly. Close the chapter with the problems of a topic. Enlist your aim and objectives. Note, aims and objectives may be a separate chapter.

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Introduction

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Review relevant and most recent literature in accordance and discordance with your topic. A review of the literature solves the problem with literature.

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Review of Literature

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Enlist your thesis title, aims and objectives in this section. It is often combined with the introduction too.

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Aims & objectives

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Describe the method, technique, hypothesis, theory, materials and other utilities used during the research in this section. Try illustration to explain the process or SOP.

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Methodology

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Enlist your results in this section and discuss them with pre-existing literature. Try to justify your results.

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Results and discussion

Your thesis should be solving some or any social or real-world problem.

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Conclude your finding briefly. Use layman's language to make it understandable, and don’t forget to discuss the real-world importance of your work.

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Conclusion

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Do not forget to enlist sources you have used in the thesis. Make a separate chapter at last and list all of them.

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References

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