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Name: Thesis Overview
ID: m15923
Language: English (en)
Summary: This THESIS OVERVIEW, based on requirements at Rice University, is designed to help graduate students understand the magnitude of a traditional Master's or PhD thesis. It shows what sections need to be included in a thesis, gives advice on what should be covered in each section, and makes specific recommendations for what questions need to be answered as a student writes up research results. Although this document is directly applicable to Rice graduate students, it can be modified for other universities and for those departments that require three published papers in lieu of a traditional thesis.
Subject: Arts, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Humanities, Social Sciences
Keywords: Communication, Dissertation, Thesis, Writing
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Maintainers: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: Mar 27, 2008 5:04 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Mar 28, 2008 1:23 pm -0500

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Version: 1.2 Mar 28, 2008 1:23 pm -0500 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
Changes: 
the summary revised
Version: 1.1 Mar 28, 2008 1:10 pm -0500 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
Changes: 
Initial version

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