The document serves as a comprehensive guide for writing a thesis, highlighting its purpose, structure, and essential components. It provides detailed instructions on preparing outlines, organizing content, and presenting research findings. Additionally, it outlines various databases and resources for accessing theses globally.

1. Thesis Writing

2. “A written work resulting from original
research, especially one submitted for
higher degree in a university”
What is a Thesis?

3. ▪ To share scientific knowledge
▪ Proof
▪ For degree – Submission
▪ Intellectual property
Why to write a thesis?

4. ▪ Addresses a problem or series of problems
▪ Describes the problems
▪ What you did to solve the problems
▪ Methodology
▪ Result and Discussion
▪ Future work
What is in the thesis

5. ▪ Front page
▪ Declaration
▪ Bonafide
▪ Abstract
▪ Acknowledgement
▪ Table of contents
▪ List of tables
▪ List of figures
▪ Chapters
▪ Appendix
▪ Reference
▪ List of publication
▪ Final Certificate
▪ Oral Board Examination Minutes
▪ CV
Structure of a Thesis

6. Before start writing
▪ Prepare thesis outline - Break the thesis into chapters; list the major sections in each
▪ Discuss with your supervisor
▪ Prepare a chapter outline
▪ Assemble all the data, tables, figures
▪ Organize them into a sensible sequence
▪ Write – start with easy, example – literature review
▪ Do section when required
▪ Base Thesis
▪ Start page number from Introduction, till Intro – (IV – Roman Numerals)
▪ Title page will not be displaced, from second page ii should be included

7. Title Page
▪ Title
▪ Name and Register No
▪ Institute Details
▪ Supervisor/guide name
▪ Month & Year
▪ Check the recent logo
▪ Follow the dimensions-
as per your institute
regulations

8. Declaration

9. First and foremost, I praise and thank xxxxx whose blessings have bestowed in me the will power and confidence
to carry out my project.
I am grateful to our beloved founders xxxxxxxxxxxx
I extend my sincere thanks to our Vice Chancellor xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, our Pro-Vice Chancellors
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, our Registrar xxxxxxxxxxxx, and our Dean-Engineering and Technology xxxxxxxxxxx
for giving me this opportunity to do this research.
I feel it a pleasure to be indebted to my guide xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Designation, Department for her
encouragement and guidance.
My grateful thanks to xxxxxxx for their valuable suggestions as doctoral members.
I would also like to thank all my friends, my parents and my family who have helped me during this research work.
I also thank all the staff members of our department for extending their helping hands to make this research a
success.
Acknowledgement

10. Thesis Title
▪ Title reflects content
of the thesis
▪ More specific
▪ Add most of your
core keywords
▪ Not much longer

11. Introduction
▪ More background information
▪ Evaluate the present scenario about your research work
▪ Motivation for the study
▪ Description/importance of the problem
▪ Statement on objective
▪ Identifying the gaps and how important the gaps need to be closed
▪ Write it after you have written the body chapters and the Conclusion so that you know
just what you are introducing.
▪ 10 pages

12. Abstract
▪ An abstract presents a brief summary of your thesis.
▪ This summary is no longer than 2-3 pages of A4
▪ An abstract never contains new information
▪ Write the objective of your study
▪ What methodology you are going to use
▪ Have more keywords
▪ Only essential information
▪ No grammar and spelling errors
▪ what you did and how you did it

13. Literature Review
“…a systematic…method for identifying, evaluating and interpreting the…work
produced by researchers, scholars and practitioners”
Source : Fink A, 1998
▪ Separate literature based on theme, analysis, synthesis, material….
▪ Strengths & weaknesses should be discussed, Not jus a list of the work of others
▪ Highlight differences & similarities
▪ Citation – Eg. Fig
▪ Existing arguments to form a new perspective
▪ Specific literature related to your research problem
▪ Recently published to go back

14. Materials and Methods
▪ Detailed methodology used to conduct the analytical, statistical, numerial,
experiment
▪ Draw in flowchart and explain
▪ Discuss about the tools/ materials which you are using

15. Result section
▪ All data should be tabulated/graph
▪ Figures can quickly convey the findings
▪ Figure caption
▪ Figure label in horizontal and vertical with units
▪ Compare the results

16. Discussion section
▪ Communicate the findings
▪ Interpret the results
▪ How this results filled your gap and how advanced your area of research
▪ Take main points from results to discuss

17. Conclusion section
▪ Write the strongest statement from your observations
▪ Tell the problem , by using the methodology, how you solved
▪ Summarize new findings/contribution
▪ Whether your work has a future work
▪ Practical issues faced

18. Figures and Tables
▪ The Quality of the Figure should be 300 DPI
▪ The figure and table caption should be relevant to the figure and table
▪ Check the earlier submitted thesis for fig or figure…
▪ Add more information in any scheme images
▪ Draw figure using PPT or Inkscape

19. Chapters
▪ The flow of chapter should be properly established
▪ If Chapter 2, figure should be “Fig. 2.1”, similar to table
▪ After every chapter at last summary should be included
▪ Proper numbering

20. University Library

24. ▪ Ohio Link ETD Center
This database provides access theses submitted to universities in Ohio State and others in USA.
▪ RCAAP: Portugal
This portal serves as a union catalog with digital contents from more than 30 institutions which includes theses and
dissertations.
▪ Theses Collection Wales
The Theses Collection Wales includes approximately 50,000 theses and dissertations which have been presented for
postgraduate degrees & PhDs in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Wales.
▪ Theses.fr
The theses.fr is the search engine of doctoral theses in France maintained by ABES. It contains over 66,000 theses.
▪ Trove (National Library of Australia)
Trove is a search portal provides searching, browsing, and access to digital documents, including ETDs produced in
Australia. It provides access to over 106,665+ theses & dissertations submitted to Australian universities.
National Thesis

25. ▪ BDTD: Brazilian Digital Theses & Dissertations
It is search tool for accessing ETDs produced in Brazilian universities and covers 2,00,000 lakh records from over 96
individual Institutions.
▪ CiNii Dissertations (Japan)
Portal for accessing doctoral dissertations awarded by Japanese Universities and the National Institute for Academic
Degrees and University Evaluation.
▪ Diss Online- German Universities
Diss Online an EDT created & supported by Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) (German National Library)covering
bibliographic records submitted to German universities.
▪ Ethos: Electronic Theses Online Service (British Library. UK)
A platform to access theses submitted by most of the UK higher education institutions. Ethos serves as an index to 300,000+
theses for free and order full text quickly and easily. Electronic Theses Online Service (Ethos) offers free access to the
limited number of full text of theses.
▪ Hong Kong Institutional Repositories
Provides access to thesis submitted to universities in Hong Kong.

26. Cybertheses
A portal developed jointly by the University of Chile, the Universities de Lyon, Montreal, and Alexandrie, and the
University of Geneva for accessing full text ETDs from many countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France,
Hong Kong, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the United States. It provides access to over 50,000 full texts ETD.
DART- Europe E-Theses Portal
Portal provides access to doctoral theses awarded by European universities. Over 4,25,000 theses open from 536
Universities in 27 European countries are accessible through this portal.
DiVA – Academic Archive On-line
A resourceful portal which provides access to theses & dissertations and research publications written at over 30 universities
from Nordic countries.
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Contains metadata & full text of more than one million electronic theses and dissertations contributed by 125+ member
universities & consortia. To visit the Global ETD Search - http://search.ndltd.org/
International Thesis

27. PQDT OPEN: ProQuest Digital Theses
Provides access to full text of theses submitted by the researcher himself under open
access initiative with PQDT open.
Open - ProQuest

29. ▪ Electronic Version of Thesis (ETD) @ Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
▪ ETD @ Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
▪ ethesis at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
▪ IMSc Library Digital Repository
▪ Mahatma Gandhi University: Online Theses Library
Indian University

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