Answers from a Doctoral Examiner

Examiners read the end of your introduction like a contract: whatever you promise there, they look for in your conclusion, and in your defense their first question is whether you delivered it. Finish ...

Underline every main verb in your abstract. If they all describe what you did (explored, examined, employed, analysed), your abstract describes the study but hides its findings, and an examiner will a...

Examiners read the end of your introduction like a contract: whatever you promise there, they look for in your conclusion, and in your defense their first question is whether you delivered it. Finish ...

Write your contribution as one sentence that starts "This thesis shows that" and states what you found, not what you did. Then put that same sentence, in near enough the same words, in three places: y...