Graduate Research and Thesis Writing

This guide to graduate research and thesis writing provides essential advice about how to become a successful graduate thesis writer. Here you will find general advice, tips and strategies to enhance your academic writing, develop your thesis writing skills and help you find useful resources.

Getting Started

Starting a graduate research project is an exciting and busy time. This section provides suggestions to get your thesis writing journey off to a good start.

Academic Writing Essentials

Academic writing is a very particular genre and the requirements can vary across and even within disciplines. Sounding academic enough, yet not pompous, is one of the balancing acts you need to master as a graduate student. This section looks at some of the essentials of academic writing.

Writing Literature Reviews

Working on the literature is something that you will start doing early in your candidacy. This section provides advice on producing a well-structured and critical literature review.

Thesis Writing

Each section of your thesis has a very particular role to play. This section will help you get started on the main chapters of your thesis.

Writing for Publication

This section focuses on the issues you need to consider when writing for publication in academic journals and elsewhere.

Useful Resources

We’ve mentioned many useful resources throughout this guide. Here are some quick links, and a few new ones.