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Writing your thesis chapter by chapter
1. Writing your thesis:
chapter by chapter
Roger Watson PhD FRCP Edin FAAN
Professor of Nursing
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced Nursing
Editor, Nursing Open
4. Title
Should be:
As short as possible
Clearly related to the topic of the thesis
Contain vital information at the beginning
5. Title
For example:
A systematic review of traditional Chinese medicine
NOT:
Traditional Chinese medicine: a systematic review
6. Title
For example:
A randomised controlled trial of traditional Chinese
medicine versus conventional medicine
NOT:
Traditional Chinese medicine versus conventional
medicine: a randomised controlled trial
8. Aims and objectives
For example:
Aim: The overall aim of this study was to investigate the
quality of life of clients
Objectives:
•To provide a profile of quality of life in clients
•To examine relationships between quality of life and
sociodemographic factors
10. Chapter 1: Introduction
Should contain a problem statement:
•What is the problem?
•Why is the problem worth studying?
•Why are you studying the problem?
•Why would anyone be interested?
11. Chapter 2: Literature review
•Literature review
•Demonstrates what is already known about the topic and
what gaps the thesis will fill
•Identifies questions to be addressed in the thesis
•Should end with research questions/hypotheses
12. Common features of systematic reviews
• Research question
• Defined parameters of review
• Search terms
• Date limits
• Inclusion and exclusion criteria
• Quality assessment
• Synthesis
• (Meta-analysis)
• Reporting
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15. Research question
A clear statement in the form of a question of what you set
out to investigate, eg:
•Are practice nurses better than GPs at removing ear wax?
•Does continuing professional development improve
nurses’ management skills?
•Why do older nurses leave the profession?
16. Hypotheses
•There will be a relationship between X and Y
•There will be a difference between X and Y
•X will be better than Y at....
20. Type of Sampling
•Random
• Simple
• Cluster
• Stratified
•Sequential
•Convenience
•Sample size considerations
21. Data collection
•Instruments used (and why)
•Validity/reliability (quantitative)
•Criteria for ensuring rigour (qualitative)
•Translation process for questionnaires
25. Chapter 4: Results
Just state the results don’t discuss them
• Descriptive statistics (demographics)
• Inferential statistics (relationhsips)
• Multivariate statistics (structures; causes)
Refer to all tables and figures
26. Tables and figures
•See how others present these
•Don’t use raw statistical outputs
•Be parsimonious
•Can you append or put material online?
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30. Chapter 5: Discussion
•Discuss the findings to the research questions
•Include limitations of study
•Do not overstate findings
•Implications/recommendations (policy, practice etc)
•Relate back to aims of study: were they achieved?
31. Chapter 6: Conclusion
•Brief summary of what the thesis shows
•Main implications
•A statement on future lines of enquiry
•NO:
•References
•New ideas
•Use bullet points
32. Order of writing
• Title
•Abstract
• Introduction
• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
•References
33. Order of writing
• Methods
• Results
• Background
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Introduction
•Abstract
• Title