文档介绍：How to Write a PhD Thesis
How to Write a PhD Thesis
some notes by
Joe Wolfe
School of Physics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
Spanish version: CÛmo escribir una tesis de doctorado
French version: Comment rediger une thèse
This guide to thesis writing gives some simple and practical advice on the problems of getting
started, anized, dividing the huge task into less formidable pieces and working on
those pieces. It also explains the practicalities of surviving the ordeal. It includes a suggested
structure and a guide to what should go in each section. It was originally written for graduate
students in physics, and most of the specific examples given are taken from that discipline.
Nevertheless, the feedback from users indicates that it has been consulted and appreciated by
graduate students in diverse fields in the sciences and humanities.
● Getting started
❍ An outline
❍ Organisation
❍ Word processors
❍ A timetable
❍ Iterative solution
● What is a thesis? For whom is it written? How should it be written?
❍ How much detail?
❍ Make it clear what is yours
❍ Style
❍ Presentation
❍ How many copies?
❍ Personal
❍ Coda
● Thesis Structure
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How to Write a PhD Thesis
● How to survive a thesis defence
Getting Started
When you are about to begin, writing a thesis seems a long, difficult task. That is because it is a
long, difficult task. Fortunately, it will seem less daunting once you have a couple of chapters
done. Towards the end, you will even find yourself enjoying it---an enjoyment based on
satisfaction in the achievement, pleasure in the improvement in your technical writing, and of
course the approaching end. Like many tasks, thesis writing usually seems worst before you
begin, so let us look at how you should make a start.
An outline
First make up a thesis outline: several pages contai