Advan-kt's thesis preparation procedures

Literature review (Part 1)

i) Type your favorite topic of research in the search engine
Google Scholar(For example, I typed: 'high voltage power supply and click search. A list of publications has appeared on the google scholar window and subsequently, I selected a custom range on the left side panel to limit the latest publications. I key in from 2011 to 2021 and then click the search button again below it. This time, most of the publications are sorted out to suit my year preference in google scholar. I simply clicked a journal publication to access it and it took me to the following site : https://ieeexplore...; whereby it was actually redirected to the IEEE database. Note: subscription is required to access most of the databases but I used Sci-Hub to crack the access. Sci-Hub always changes its web address so search in google as if it does not work)ii) Then I cut and paste the entire web address from google scholar (https://ieeexplore...) onto the Sci-Hub. After that, I pressed the open button that was accompanied by a key sign in Sci-Hub; from which it broke all the barriers to accessing the journal publication.

Literature review (Part 2)

Repeat Step 1 in the following databases to get all the latest journal publications, including the book chapters and conference series.

a) Science Direct - ELSEVIER
b) Springer
c) Taylor & Francis
d) IEEE
e) Wiley & Sons
f) PubMed
g) Web of Science
h) DOAJ
i) SAGE Publications
j) EBSCO
k) PubChem
l) Ethos
m) Semantic
n) Plos

Research Proposal

Once the journal papers are read and reviewed thoroughly, I moved on to write a proposal as I found the research gap clearly. (Qs: What does the research gap mean for? Ans: a research need is defined as a gap that limits the ability of decision-makers (policy-makers, patients, practitioners) from making decisions)

A simple proposal has the following sections

Section 1: project title
Section 2: research supervisor
Section 3: proposed research mode
Section 4: aims and objectives
Section 5: abstract
Section 6: background
Section 7: expected research contribution
Section 8: proposed methodology
Section 9: work plan
Section 10: resources
Section 11: references


Detail of each section is available at : click

Thesis Structure

A simple thesis has the following chapters

Chapter 1: narrates the introduction, problem statement, objective, research scope, and thesis organization
Chapter 2: provides detailed information about the background study pertaining to literature review
Chapter 3: explains the research methodology that has the qualitative and quantitative measures
Chapter 4: discusses new results obtained through experimentation or simulation or mathematical reasoning or computer programming
Chapter 5: concludes the research with newly computed results
Chapter 6: for references
Chapter 7: for appendixes


An example of the citation, image arrangement, caption, notation, table format, literature review and etc ... is available for better understanding at : click

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Various Thesis Format

I selected the appropriate thesis format (a) for my research program because I was enrolled for a Ph.D. by Thesis

a) PhD by Thesis
b) PhD by Prior Publication
c) Industrial-PhD
d) Post Doctoral Degree (Doctor of Science)

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Various PhD Thesis Database

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A Nobel Laureate, John Nash has finished his doctoral thesis with only 26 pages and two references.

Another Nobel Laureate and World Renowned Scientist, Albert Einstien has finished his doctoral thesis with only 24 pages.

Enigma Code Breaker and World War 2 Winner, Alan Turing has finished his doctoral thesis with only 73 pages.

Time is what he explored, Stephen Hawking but the concept was taken back.

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