Annotated biology/GH honors thesis excerpts
Wing Yu Tang's honors thesis in Biological Sciences was based on global health research that she pursued at the Feinberg School of Medicine. These excerpts include comments about the structure and writing of the thesis that should be helpful to others writing theses in these fields. However, readers should bear in mind that this is not a typical biology thesis.
wyTang honors thesis abstract (pdf)
With annotations explaining features of a good abstract
wyTang honors thesis TOC (pdf)
With annotations
wyTang honors thesis Background (pdf)
Background and literature review, with annotations
wyTang honors thesis Methods (pdf)
Short excerpt from Methods section, with advice
wyTang honors thesis Results, Discussion, etc (pdf)
Excerpts from these sections are presented together to help writers see how the sections are different, what belongs in each, and how this affects the writing style. Brief comments are made about final sections, like references.
