Writing your thesis

The prospect of sitting down to write your thesis can be intimidating. As with much of your doctorate, your best source of support will be your supervisory team. Your main supervisor should support you by reading drafts, providing feedback and helping you to judge appropriate style and level. He/she is not a proofreader, but you can expect your supervisor to read your whole thesis, probably more than once.

This section offers advice and tips on the process of writing a thesis.

• Getting started
• Writing as you go
• Structuring your writing
• Improving your writing
• Reviewing and proofreading
• Knowing it is finished

There are also books available with practical tips, for example Patrick Dunleavy's Authoring a PhD and Rowena Murray's How to write a thesis. Your institution may also run training courses or advice sessions on writing your thesis, these will allow you to share strategies and advice with other students.