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Thesis writing

Getting started.

Find out what you are expected to do by:

• Attending department based orientation and technical programs
• Read course handbooks
• Read the Graduate Students Office guidelines
• Books and websites on dissertation writing
• Look for previous dissertations in the library

Managing your writing

Set up your dissertation files – a separate file for each section (See session on “Planning thesis production using MS Word”) Cover page – see your handbook Formalities – see Graduate Studies Office's guidelines References/bibliography Appendices Key words Abstract List of Tables and Figures Ethics statement Statement of original authorship Acknowledgements Table of contents

Chapters (set up one file for each chapter)

• Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
• Chapter 2. Literature review
• Chapter 3. Research question
• Chapter 4. Methodology
• Chapter 5. Results
• Chapter 6. Discussion
• Chapter 7. Summary and conclusions

Free up headspace

• Write down everything you can so that you do not need to keep it in short term memory
• Do not write sequentially and be prepared to leave gaps
• Copy and paste into the appropriate chapter any material you have already written including preliminary reference sections or bibliographies (see sessions on EndNote)
• Set up a “recycle” file. Do not delete any paragraph you write.  Save it because you may be able to reuse it somewhere else.

Structure each chapter

• Tell ";em what you're goin to tell "em (8)
• Tell "em (2)
• Tell "em what you told "em (6)

E.g. Chapter 1

• Introduction
• What the thesis is about (write now)
• What the chapters say (write after they are written)
• Summary and conclusion and
• Why the research is important (write anytime you work this out)

Figuring out what your research is about

• Free up headspace then focus specifically on your research question and write it down
• Use research seminars, study groups, conferences and peers to get feedback on your idea
• Make sure it is expressed in terms that your peers can understand
• Discuss the refined statement with your supervisor and reach agreement as early in the process as possible
• Identify the tasks that need to be done to complete each chapter
• Estimate how long each task will take
• Use planning tools such as Gantt Charts to establish important sequences
• Enter start dates, milestones and completion dates in your diary
• Review and revise regularly
• Hopelessly inaccurate estimates are much more efficient than no estimates at all

Planning and Management

Having short-term and long-term goals as well as a realistic plan will help you manage your progress and ensure you generate effective content.

• Set task targets with your supervisor
• Make maximum use of resources
• Get your material reviewed by peers (seminars, conferences, publish)
• Make contact with people doing similar research (network)

Managing content and process

• Make maximum use the library and resources (see library sessions)
• Get your material reviewed by peers (seminars, conferences)
• Staying motivated
• Rewards for progress
• Graph your word-count (chapters and refs only)
• Keep a journal of your progress recording how you solved problems and overcame difficulties
• Manage social support
• Keep your sense of humour

More resources

The SLD Blackboard module has How to Write a Thesis  (electronic version) by Murray 

How to Write a Thesis by Murray

How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors by Philips & Pugh

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A selection of tu dublin dissertations and theses are available in the tu dublin libraries.  .

• Undergraduate dissertations and final-year projects are held in the libraries in hardcopy and online format.   
• Taught postgraduate dissertations are available to use in the library and online.   
• Research theses ‌are also available in print and online formats.  

Lists of hardcopy dissertations and access to eDissertations are available via the Library Catalogue from  this listing.     Or:  

To refine your search start at the  Library Catalogue:

• From the drop-down search menu choose:   Subject Search.  
• Input your program code e.g. TU856 or your program title e.g. BSc Computer Science.  
• Select the  eDissertations  option to view and open the pdf files (where available)  
• Select  Dissertations  to see the hardcopy listing and library location (where available)
• Sort the list by  Reverse Year  to view the newer titles.
• To access eDissertations off-campus you will need to access library services through your TU Dublin Single Sign-On.  

Hardcopy  dissertations are for Library Use only and may not be borrowed.  

Supervisors can submit dissertations here

Note: from 2021 onwards dissertations and final year projects will only be available as eDissertations.  

Research theses are generally available on  Arrow@TUDublin . Arrow is the institutional repository for the university and is where researchers make a version of their research theses and published articles or book chapters freely available.

View the research theses  collection for MPhil and PhD degrees.

Hardcopy theses:

A selection of research theses in hardcopy is also available for use in the library. View  this listing on our Library Catalogue.  

Hardcopy research theses are for use in the library only.

Theses from other universities are often available online. Here is a list of Research repositories - including TU Dublin's Arrow platform. 

• ARAN The digital collection of open-access scholarly publications from NUI Galway. ARAN collects, preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by NUI Galway researchers.
• Arrow@TU Dublin The research repository of TU Dublin. 
• CORE Provides open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and makes them available to the public.
• CORA (Cork Open Research Archive) CORA, the Cork Open Research Archive, gives you free open access to University College Cork’s scholarly and scientific research publications and theses.
• DART Europe DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
• DBS eSource DBS eSource is an online service hosting full content materials produced by Dublin Business School staff and students. It contains the full text of articles, theses, conference papers, book chapters and more.
• DORAS DCU’s Open Access Institutional Repository, providing free online access to research publications and theses from Dublin City University, Ireland.
• e-publications@RCSI An open access repository of research and scholarly output of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The service is maintained and managed by RCSI Library.
• LENUS Irish health repository – Ireland’s leading source of health-related research and grey literature. Journal articles, dissertations, HSE publications and the collected output of more than 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.
• Mary Immaculate College Research Repository Provides access the digital archive collections, and published and unpublished works of faculty and researchers at Mary Immaculate College
• Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive  is an institutional repository of ePrints which showcases the research output of Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College staff and postgraduate students.
• OPENAIRE Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe is network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals
• OpenDOAR Directory of global Open Access repositories
• Research Repository UCD A digital collection of open access scholarly research publications from University College Dublin. Research Repository UCD collects, preserves and makes freely available publications including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by UCD researchers.
• Research@THEA An online, predominately OA repository of the research and scholarly output of the CUA Institutes – Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) and Institute of Technology, Sligo (IT Sligo)
• SHERPA A trial search service for the full-text of material held in UK open access repositories
• TARA The open access repository of Trinity College Dublin
• T-STÓR Teagasc’s Open Access Repository, maintained by the Teagasc Library Service. Stór is the Gaelic word for Repository or Store or Warehouse, and T-Stór is an online “store” of Teagasc Research outputs and related documents. T-Stór collects preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by Teagasc researchers.
• STOR Dundalk Institute of Technology’s Open Access (OA) Institutional Repository. Making DKIT’s research output, including theses and research papers, freely available to the public via the internet
• University of Limerick Institutional Repository Access digital archive collections, and published and unpublished works of faculty and researchers at the University of Limerick.  

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CMC Senior Theses

Moscow, we have a problem: russia's inconsistent approach to the evolving concept of sovereignty in the 21st century.

Hillary E. Lundberg , Claremont McKenna College Follow

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The 1648 Peace of Westphalia created an understanding of state sovereignty free from external interference that remained largely unaltered until the last century. The horrors of the Holocaust and the significant humanitarian crises of the 20 th century have presented the international community with a new type of threat to international peace and security and have sparked an ongoing conversation about the limitations of traditional sovereignty. Russia has positioned itself as a firm supporter of a strict adherence to the Westphalian concept of sovereignty, but my thesis argues that Russians do not value this interpretation as much as they claim to, and that in fact Moscow recognizes that this definition is a thing of the past. I examine Russian actions surrounding the 2011 UN-sanctioned intervention in Libya and the ongoing conflict in Syria, particularly focusing on the major differences between Russian decision-making in the two cases. I analyze transcripts of Security Council meetings in order to demonstrate that there is far more to Russian actions in Syria than Moscow’s public position suggests, and I subsequently offer a number of alternative explanations for Russian decision-making surrounding Syria. These alternative explanations demonstrate that even the Russians, who have portrayed themselves as the great defenders of traditional state sovereignty, recognize the modern limitations to strict Westphalian sovereignty and understand that this traditional definition is a thing of the past. This conclusion is significant because in demonstrating that traditional sovereignty’s greatest champion acknowledges the modern shift in the concept, I prove that the departure from strict Westphalian sovereignty is not merely a theory, but a reality.

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Lundberg, Hillary E., "Moscow, We Have a Problem: Russia's Inconsistent Approach to the Evolving Concept of Sovereignty in the 21st Century" (2014). CMC Senior Theses . 821. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/821

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However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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Trinity College Dublin research theses can be found using Stella Search and refining your search results by selecting the format 'TCD Thesis' for print theses, or 'TCD E-Thesis', or by limiting results to the Library Collection 'TCD Theses' for both.

For the most up-to-date list of e-theses go directly to the TARA e-thesis collection .

All print theses held by the Library are in storage. Students, staff and visiting readers should use Click and Collect to request them.

Note: Trinity College Dublin theses cannot be borrowed and must be read in the Library.

Taught Masters dissertations awarded post-2004/5 are not held by the Library in print format, but some are available electronically due to authors kindly donating the PDF of their thesis .

Undergraduate dissertations are not held by the Library.

Stays/Embargoes/Restrictions

Occasionally a new thesis or e-thesis will have a "stay" (embargo) on it, meaning it cannot be requested or viewed. This temporary (usually between one and five years) restriction is made by the Graduate Studies Office on behalf of the author. A small number of e-theses are restricted to Trinity logins only, and some authors have chosen to opt out of the retrospective digitisation of their print thesis.

Retrospective Thesis Digitisation Project

The Library has been working to retrospectively digitise the collection of Ph.D. theses.

For the authors who graduated from 2000-2017, e-mail notification of the project was sent to authors via the Alumni mailing list. A notification was posted in the Alumni magazine. The lists of theses to be scanned in each phase were posted on the Library website for several years. Authors were/are asked to get in contact if they object or have any other concerns.

Most of these theses are now available online from TARA . If you are unable to find a specific e-thesis from 2000-2017, please contact Niamh Harte at [email protected] .

Theses from Other Institutions

Many universities are digitising their research output and making it freely available via their institutional repository – check their Library/University website for information.

British and Irish theses, including Trinity College Dublin theses, plus North American and some European theses are indexed in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I .

If a thesis is not available freely online contact the Library’s Inter-Library Loan Office .

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• UK theses are free to download after requested once and digitised
• For others use Inter-Library Loan to obtain at subsidised cost

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• Browse DART-Europe for the discovery of European electronic theses (including Trinity College Dublin e-theses)

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