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These collections contain dissertations and theses authored by University of Kansas students. Current works are posted here in fulfillment of graduation requirements.

At the author's request, staff at the KU Libraries are happy to digitize and make available in KU ScholarWorks any thesis or dissertation. Please contact Marianne Reed at [email protected] for more information.

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Collections in this community, dissertations [4702], pre-1929 dissertations and theses [923], theses [3943], recent submissions.

A Chinese puzzle: Patrick J. Hurley and the foreign service officer controversy 

Prediction of self-perceived performance ability among junior high students through the relationship of musical aptitude and success 

A MISO Frequency Diverse Array Implementation 

The vitae of St. Nicholas and his hagiographical icons in Russia 

Promise Land: Proving Correctness with Strongly Typed Javascript-Style Promises 

A study of Pope Innocent III’s treatise De quadripartita specie nuptiarum 

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad brings the Mennonites to Nebraska, 1873-1878 

The Social Validity and Efficacy of a Virtual Reality Intervention for Improving Middle School Students’ Social Communication: A Randomized Controlled Study 

Designing Pseudo-Random Staggered PRI Sequences 

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka : Anatomy of a decision 

Regional patterning in the Paleoindian record from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas 

A Structural and Petrographic Study of the Kentland, Indiana Impact Site 

Cultural Identity Construction among Political Refugee Students: The Case of Eritrean College Students in the Midwest 

A Comparison of Precision Teaching Methods With and Without Error Urging 

RNA Analysis of Liquid Biopsies for Cancer Diagnosis 

Conceptualizing Multimorbidities in Older Adults: Chronic Pain, Depression, and the Biopsychosocial Model 

Directing effect of Amide Function in Diastereoselective Reactions of Cyclopropenes and Cyclopropanes 

Examining the Conjoint Impact of Depressive Symptomatology and Mind Wandering on Affective Dynamics in Response to Emotionally Salient Visual Stimuli 

Explorations into the structure modification of amorphous silica surfaces and the implications to water dynamics at the interface: A theoretical study 

Methods Development for Glycopeptide and Glycan Analysis 

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Theses and Dissertations

As you embark upon this important element of your academic career, you should be aware of what a dissertation or thesis looks like. After all, how can you write a dissertation chapter if you've never read one before? Advisers often focus on the content of your dissertation or thesis since this is the culmination of a stage of your academic career and as such should showcase your writing, research, and critical thinking skills-but the form of a dissertation or thesis is also important, and commensurately more difficult to teach.

For every discipline there are differing expectations as to what a dissertation or thesis should include, as well as how it should be formatted. Even though as a writer you have control over how to explain your ideas and how to organize them within the text, scholars in your field have agreed upon how a dissertation/thesis should be organized: what types of chapters you should include, the minimum number of chapters a dissertation or thesis should have, and how those are formatted. This is where seeing and reading what other writers within your discipline and department have done will be helpful. You should do this sooner rather than later.

Getting Started: 

• Start by asking your adviser if they have any suggestions of dissertations or theses you should look at. They may point you to things like the writings of an ex-advisee or a certain literature review article in a journal.
• After speaking to your adviser, you can seek out either a reference librarian or a subject librarian to find other dissertations or theses in your subject area. Find out more about how to access completed dissertations and theses at Dissertations and Theses at KU . 
• Reading not just for content but also for form will help you understand better how to put together your dissertation or thesis. Learn about thesis and dissertation formatting via  KU Libraries: Thesis and Dissertation Formatting . 
• Think about how the project as a whole is organized as well as how the individual chapters are organized: how do they separate their literature review from their discussion of their results, for example? Do they utilize headings and subheadings or bulleted lists at any point?
• Moreover, take notes about elements of the project that stand out to you: use of tables, inclusion of photographs, striking introductions, chapter titles.
• Based on what you know so far, brainstorm ideas for what to include in your project and how those ideas can be organized. See Prewriting Strategies.  

Finding and Synthesizing Sources: 

Produce a research question that you hope your research will answer. If you are at the beginning stage of this process, you may have a general or vague question or set of questions. Eventually you want to create a set of questions that focus on a specific problem within your area of interest and join an existing academic conversation. 

Begin researching. The KU Libraries has many guides and tutorials for how to use the library resources. You can also set up a meeting with a librarian . 

Compile a list of sources that seem to approach your subject of interest. In the beginning you may want to compile at least a list of 10 sources and to organize them in a matrix or an annotated bibliography where you note the subject matter of the source, its novel argument, its theoretical relationship to the subject and field, and what may be lacking within the analysis. At a later stage, you may want to synthesize what is different between each source and similar to all the sources you compile and decide on the specific problem you want your research to cover based on the existing viewpoints and conversations on the topic. Find more information on Annotated Bibliographies in our Bibliographies guide. 

Find data and a data source that is appropriate and compatible with your research problem and question. If you are collecting your own data, make sure that you complete the appropriate protocols to ensure that your project will be completed within the intended timeframe.  

Keep track of your sources through citation management tools like EndNote and Zotero. See How to Select and Use Citation Management Tools . 

Additional steps will depend on the kind of project you are completing. At this point it may be a good idea to meet with the Graduate Writing Coach for more guidance on additional steps.

Literature Reviews: 

The point of the literature review section of your thesis or dissertation is to demonstrate an understanding of the ongoing conversations, disagreements, and conceptualizations of your topic of interest. As a form of writing that tends to be highly technical, it will probably undergo several changes before you are able to reach a draft that closely resembles your final product. Your literature review should directly correspond to your research questions, research purpose, and may be used to justify the methodology of the study. Learn more through our Literature Reviews guide. 

Getting Feedback: 

Stuck in your writing process? You may benefit from a consultation with our graduate writing director. To schedule a meeting and for more information see the following: Graduate Writing Coaching | KU Writing Center  

Faculty Feedback: Throughout your thesis and dissertation process you will have to keep consistent communication with your advisor/chair and committee members. It is important to view all faculty feedback throughout this process as a conversation that will allow your research to both improve and reach the required conventions of research in your field. If you find yourself stuck with contradictory comments or unclear questions, you may want to reach out to your advisor for additional help. If you have questions throughout this process, you may also want to consider making a coaching appointment with the graduate writing director at the link above.   

Time Management: 

It is important that you learn and intentionally prioritize your thesis and dissertation research and writing.  

Set aside a direct weekly block to complete your thesis/dissertation hours.  

Use SMARTER goals to help you keep track of your progress and to split the larger semester goal into weekly goals that can be measured, are concrete, and remain specific.  

Time-block your calendar so that you can set aside concrete time to finish your weekly writing goal and to block off time to complete your other responsibilities.  

Find an accountability buddy within your department, have consistent check-in sessions with your advisor or committee member, and/or join a KU writing group to help you stay on track.  

References: 

Foss, Sonja K., and Waters, William Joseph Condon. Destination Dissertation: a Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 

(Updated July 2022)  

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Submitting Your Thesis or Dissertation Electronically

The following guidelines, resources, and templates are here to support graduate students as they format their theses and/or dissertations for ProQuest submission, which is required for graduation.

Please direct all questions about Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) submissions that are not addressed here to your school-level ETD contact listed in the righthand sidebar.

The University of Kansas requires that all students whose degree programs require the defense of a thesis or dissertation must publish their research in order to fulfill degree requirements. The publication requirement is satisfied by submitting the Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) to UMI/ProQuest. You may review the policies governing  master's theses  and  doctoral dissertations  for more information.

Your thesis or dissertation should meet all of the  formatting requirements  laid out in KU's ETD Formatting Guidelines. 

Please note:  The final document you submit electronically must contain only your thesis or dissertation and the scholarly apparatus as described in these formatting guidelines. It must not include any prior publications or other scholarly or creative works.

Before you submit your thesis or dissertation, make sure you have gathered the following:

• The Subject Category or Categories under which your research falls— Click to view ProQuest's list of Subject Categories
• Between 6 and 8 keywords to be used as search terms within ProQuest
• Your abstract
• Any documentation of copyright permissions you have been granted, if necessary
• Your credit card, if you would like ProQuest to file your copyright on your behalf (optional)
• ETD Release Form (pdf)
• ETD Release Form for Creative Writing MFA/PhD students ONLY (pdf)

The following materials may also be helpful as you prepare your final submission:

• KU ScholarWorks — You can check here to see whether your work has been posted
• Video of Spring 2018 Workshop

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Office of Graduate Studies Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Guidelines

These rules are taken from the KU Office of Graduate Studies Thesis or Dissertation Formatting Guidelines. To see the full thesis or dissertation formatting requirements, visit https://graduate.ku.edu/submitting

The templates below conform, as much as possible, to KU and ProQuest requirements as well as APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian, with regard to heading styles and page numbering. They also include place-holder figures, tables and headings, which allow for automatic table of contents, list of figures and list of tables to be generated as well. These documents are also already set up to embed fonts for you (as required by ProQuest).

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The Kathmandu University Central Library (KUCL) is centrally located in the university central premises and can be reached within three to five minutes from all departments and hostels. The library is housed in a three-story building with a space of about 2290 square meter. The KUCL has majority of books and journals specially related with School of Science and School of Engineering. It monitors services of all libraries of the university. Schools located in Kathmandu valley and Dhulikhel, have their own libraries to cater the information needs of the students and faculties.

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Being research-cum-teaching university, focus has been given to enrich the reference collection with less priority for text books which on the other hand the students themselves would be able to purchase. With this view, the library spent most of the budget in purchasing reference materials. Thus, the collection has proved to be a best collection in the respective field and is admired by faculty members and researchers within the campus, as well as the outsiders and visitors. The access to online e-resources received through Research4life further enriched the resources as well as the research activities in KU.

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Library automation means automating all the housekeeping operations of the library such as, acquisition, cataloguing, serials control, circulation, OPAC, etc. KU library previously used CDS/ISIS for information storage & retrieval. It was just a computerized catalogue. The technological development and the increasing demand of the users compelled us to think of the library automation, which resulted to install the Software for University Libraries (SOUL) developed by INFLIBNET Centre, an inter-university center of UGC of India, which made KU library the first academic library to have library automation in Nepalese context. Being more up-to-date, we have switched into the popular online library software KOHA (Open Source) which provides online access (search as well as status check) to our users from anywhere anytime. It also integrates KUCL with other KU libraries situated at different locations.

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