bsm Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 I am doing a Masters and need to start looking into what meets the standards of a thesis/defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaveSense Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 talk to your department.. some will allow you to just attach your paper pretty much and then you'll have very little to write, others will make you rewrite the entire thing to match their guidelines, but even then with a published paper, it won't be hard to rewrite it. your thesis doesn't have to be your published work. your thesis is a project and a story. if you did a side-project that ended up being published and you don't want to have that as your thesis (dunno why you wouldn't), you can just attach it as an appendix to your actual thesis just so they know that you have done other work as well.... but you need to talk to your department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanInVan Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 For my MSc thesis, I have an introductory chapter that was more or less a combination of a literature review/background and an introduction to the goals, etc of the thesis. Then I had two manuscript chapters (pretty much identical to the published papers with some minor formatting to match the UBC guidelines. The fourth and final chapter is a general discussion about the findings, where they fit in relation to the rest of the field and future directions. I do have an appendix with extra relevant data that wasn't included in the manuscript chapters. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsm Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Thanks for the replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starling Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Well, it depends on your school. I'd recommend getting ahold of theses from previous students in your lab (in addition to looking at the official guidelines). You can probably paste in your paper, and write an extra long intro and overall discussion, but your school could have guidelines that say otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsm Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 I will check how much a publication would need to be reshaped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starling Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 If you have a publication, can you be pretty confident that it would be enough progress that you could write up a thesis and finnish up your degree? Likely, but that depends on the publication and on your program. Just ask your supervisor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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