Resources and posts about Dissertations and Doctoral writing
Congratulations! You’re ready to write your dissertation. One way to mitigate the “intimidation factor” of this manuscript is to begin with small steps. This resource encourages you to become familiar with the auto-formatting functions in [...]
Suffering from writer’s block? Take a break! Try taking a shower or a short walk, then come back to your writing with fresh eyes. Avoid burnout! While working on your dissertation, remember to give [...]
DOIs & URLs in Dissertations From time to time we field questions about how to properly style URLs within the References section of a dissertation. In this post I will outline our expectations and some [...]
ORCID Scholar Number: AU students are required to include their ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number on the title page of their dissertations/theses. Doing so, will ensure that the dissertation and your identity are protected [...]
From the Director’s Desk: Writing a dissertation is a daunting enterprise: it’s the most in-depth researching and writing enterprise of your academic program. Its chapters & their purposes can be unfamiliar and the pressure to [...]
What is a Literature Review? The Literature Review overviews, analyzes, and sometimes critiques relevant previous research. It lays the groundwork for the original research presented in a thesis/dissertation by demonstrating that the research fills a [...]
The introduction informs your audience about the importance of your topic, the research question(s) you plan to investigate, and your hypothesis or core claim (thesis statement). It also outlines the structure of the rest of [...]
Dissertation writers may find it difficult and frustrating to correct the format of a dissertation according to guidelines, especially if the document is already written. WEX is here to help! Below you'll find a downloadable [...]
WEX Editors on Common Errors Seen in Dissertations We’ve asked the WEX editors about the common APA errors they’re seeing in dissertations and have created this list in the hopes writers might have an advantage [...]
The dissertation abstract is a decidedly strategic element of the dissertation. Not only is it the most widely read section of your dissertation, it is where that reader decides whether to read further. The abstract [...]
Director’s Desk: Where’s the Consistency? When Academic Program Handbooks and the APA Manual Disagree You’ve made it this far with APA and for the most part the manual has been consistent in presenting definitive [...]
WEX has had a few questions in the past couple of months regarding ways of acknowledging academic degrees in our writing, and we hope this posting would help clarify the rules. Capitalization: In [...]
