What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

The California Code of Regulations: Title 5 Education, Section 40510 defines a thesis as: The written product of a systematic study of a significant problem. It identifies the problem, states the ...

Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. Her writing can be found on her portfolio site, kdshives.com. As an ABD student bent on finishing up this summer my ...

A thesis, which may be research or expository, critical, or creative work, is required of every master’s degree candidate under Plan I. Every thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the ...