Humanities and Social Sciences

Academic Skills Unit

Postgraduate resources: Thesis thoughts online

Every year in September, LUPA (the La Trobe University Postgraduate Association) invites Kate Chanock to talk to its members about writing a thesis in Humanities and Social Sciences. She's now expanded and enriched the content of that session to make a multimedia resource for students on all campuses to access any time. Kate welcomes feedback so please let her know what you think! Email her at c.chanock@latrobe.edu.au

Introduction

• Quicktime (4.8Mb)
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• Slide text (RTF 16Kb), (PDF 12.5Kb)

Managing your thesis

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• Slide text (RTF 20Kb), (PDF 14Kb)

Choosing and discussing your methods

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• MP3 (312Kb)
• Slide text (RTF 19Kb), (PDF 14Kb)

Your research proposal

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• Slide text (RTF 19Kb), (PDF 20Kb)

The thesis as a genre

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• MP3 (1.2Mb)
• Slide text (RTF 25Kb), (PDF 22Kb)

Thesis structure

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• Slide text (RTF 22Kb), (PDF 23Kb)

Introductions and audiences

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• Slide text (RTF 35Kb), (PDF 21Kb)

Strategies and starting points

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• Slide text (RTF 54Kb), (PDF 46Kb)

Your literature review

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• Slide text (RTF 55Kb), (PDF 28Kb)

Challenges of the midsection

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• Slide text (RTF 53Kb), (PDF 29.5Kb)

Getting useful feedback from your supervisor

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• Slide text (RTF 30Kb), (PDF 21Kb)

Revising your thesis

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• MP3 (1.5Mb)
• Slide text (RTF 45Kb), (PDF 27Kb)

Language of the thesis

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• MP3 (4.4Mb)
• Slide text (RTF 84Kb), (PDF 33Kb)

When things go wrong

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• MP3 (2.2Mb)
• Slide text (RTF 67.5Kb), (PDF 26Kb)

Concluding your thesis

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• MP3 (363Kb)
• Slide text (RTF 13Kb), (PDF 10.2Kb)

Examination

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• Slide text (RTF 24Kb), (PDF 20Kb)

References for thesis thoughts

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Transcript in full

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