What we check in each chapter
A thesis is not one document so much as several that have to agree with each other. Most of the marks lost in editing terms come from disagreement between chapters rather than from anything inside one of them.
- Introduction: is there a research question, and is its scope honestly stated
- Literature review: does it build an argument for your study or list what exists
- Methodology: is the approach justified, replicable and matched to the question
- Results: presented cleanly, with tables and figures that stand on their own
- Discussion: interpretation that goes beyond restating the results
- Conclusion: answers the question, states limitations, earns its further work
- References, appendices, contents page and heading hierarchy