Welcome
So, you are embarking on one of the last legs of you doctoral journey!!!
This guide is designed to guide you to information on how to understand the process of researching and writing the Literature Review and the Doctoral Dissertation and to make your research and writing more efficient and effective.
Preparing the Literature Review
- The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting ItThis is a brief page with several lists of questions to ask yourself during the process of researching and writing your literature review.
- Approaching literature review for academic purposes: The Literature Review ChecklistThis paper discusses the purposes of LRs in dissertations and theses and describes five steps for developing a review: defining the main topic, searching the literature, analyzing the results, writing the review and reflecting on the writing.
- A Guide to Writing the Dissertation Literature ReviewThis article first discusses the reasons for writing a literature review. It then elaborates the steps involved in doing so. Finally it describes some of the common mistakes made in literature reviews and how to avoid them.
Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review by Showing you how to take a structured and organized approach to a wide range of literature review types, this book helps you to choose which approach is right for your research.
Succeeding with Your Literature Review: a Handbook for Students by This step-by-step handbook provides comprehensive and practical guidance on the process of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, as well as planning and writing a literature review.
Finding Dissertations and Theses
Were you looking for information on how to FIND Dissertations and Theses using the resources at Wayne State? Then try the Finding WSU and Non-WSU Dissertations & Theses Research Guide
WSU Graduate School
- Degree Requirements for Ph.D. StudentsThis page lists the main university-wide requirements for PhD. completion.
- Forms for Ph.D. StudentsThis page provide links to each of the forms required by the Wayne State University Graduate School of all PhD students as they progress through the degree process.