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<h2 id="introductory-chapters">Introductory chapters</h2> <p>The introductory or summary chapters of a thesis by published works should be written independently by the student. They should include an extensive annotated <a href="/facts/Bibliography/xul38mej">bibliography</a> or <a href="/facts/Literature_review/SIE3DITr">literature review</a>, placing the scope and results of the articles in the wider context of the current state of international research. They constitute a comprehensive summary of the appended papers, and should clarify the contribution of the doctoral student if the papers are written by several authors. They should not provide new results, but may provide synthesis of new conclusions by combining results from several of the papers. They may supplement the articles with a motivation of the chosen scope, research problems, objectives and methods, and a strengthening of the theoretical framework, analysis and conclusions, since the extent of the articles normally does not allow these kind of longer discussions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Thesis/dYnTaYqQ">Thesis</a> (Dissertation)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Academic_journal/SBI7Ue0q">Academic journal</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Academic_publishing/WfPqsYr1">Academic publishing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Treatise/ED3heHjb">Treatise</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Writing thesis as a collection of papers, University of reading, UK. Retrieved 28 May 2018. <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/graduateschool/gradschwritingthesisascollectionofpapers.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/graduateschool/gradschwritingthesisascollectionofpapers.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Thesis as a series of papers", The University of Western Australia, Retrieved 29 May 2018 <a href="http://www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au/students/thesis/series" target="_blank">http://www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au/students/thesis/series</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Writing thesis as a collection of papers, University of reading, UK. Retrieved 28 May 2018. <a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/graduateschool/gradschwritingthesisascollectionofpapers.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/graduateschool/gradschwritingthesisascollectionofpapers.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Article theses and essay theses Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Turku School of Economics, Finland, October 2010. <a href="http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Article theses and essay theses Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Turku School of Economics, Finland, October 2010. <a href="http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>About monographs and compilation theses Archived 14 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden <a href="http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/education_student/third_cycle-postgraduate_studies/about-the-doctoral-thesis/" target="_blank">http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/education_student/third_cycle-postgraduate_studies/about-the-doctoral-thesis/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Niclas Hagen,The compilation thesis as a genre and as a method, 7 May 2011 blog, affiliated with Lund University, Sweden. <a href="http://tycho5s.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/the-compilation-thesis-as-a-genre-and-as-a-method/" target="_blank">http://tycho5s.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/the-compilation-thesis-as-a-genre-and-as-a-method/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>About monographs and compilation theses Archived 14 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden <a href="http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/education_student/third_cycle-postgraduate_studies/about-the-doctoral-thesis/" target="_blank">http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/education_student/third_cycle-postgraduate_studies/about-the-doctoral-thesis/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Article theses and essay theses Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Turku School of Economics, Finland, October 2010. <a href="http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.tse.fi/FI/opiskelu/Documents/Muut%20oppaat/compilation_thesis.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Guidance on the structure of a compilation thesis Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Lund university, Faculty of engineering, Sweden. Last updated: 27 April 2011. <a href="http://www.lth.se/english/education/phd_studies/public_defence/compilation_thesis/" target="_blank">http://www.lth.se/english/education/phd_studies/public_defence/compilation_thesis/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"On the choice of thesis format and on writing the "kappa" of a thesis of publication" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2011. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120330152718/http://pedagogiskt-arbete.educ.umu.se/@api/deki/files/100/=Monografi_eller_sammanlaggning.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120330152718/http://pedagogiskt-arbete.educ.umu.se/@api/deki/files/100/=Monografi_eller_sammanlaggning.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>