Postgraduate Materials

Click on the following headings to go directly to those resources:

• pamphlets
• booklets
• useful links

Free Pamphlets to Download

Our current range of free pamphlets can be downloaded.

These pamphlets are also available in hard copy from LLSU

Booklets

Managing Post Graduate study.

This booklet is available from LLSU at $2.50 inclusive of GST.

It includes information on:

• the nature of postgraduate work
• time management and organizational strategies
• effective reading
• effective note-taking
• writing a literature review
• editing tips for postgraduate writers
• motivation and procrastination
• references and resources

Useful Links

The University of Melbourne's Library has a useful interactive site on Writing a Literature Review
Includes links to evaluating material found on the web and examples of literature reviews.

Thesis Proposals: A Brief Guide
This guide from the University of NSW is for students who are enrolled in a postgraduate research degree and who have been asked to submit a thesis proposal

Research Education

An excellent site from the university of South Australia on getting started with your research, refining your research topicl,research design, an introduction to research ethics, and resources for superviors.

This is an online 12-week course for students commencing PhD by research, focusing on the common elements and features of postgraduate research and the required first-year tasks. As well as a wealth of information and advice on making a successful start to your PhD, the course includes videos, quizzes, checklists, animated literature searching tutorials and a range of discussion forums. An online course facilitator fosters development of an interactive peer-community, and the course experience provides a useful introduction to online communication and resources.

Coursework or cursework?: issues, strategies and tips for postgraduate coursework students

Wendy Larcombe, Francesca Bussey, Anthony McCosker and Chi Baik from the Language and Learning Skills Unit look at the challenges of PG coursework and offer strategies and tips for managing your time and study, undertaking a minor thesis and adapting to the academic culture of postgraduate coursework.

How to write a Ph.D. thesis

Written by Joe Wolfe from the Physics department at UNSW. This guide to thesis writing gives simple and practical advice on the problems of getting started, getting organized, dividing the huge task into less formidable pieces and working on those pieces. It was originally written for graduate students in physics, and most of the specific examples given are taken from that discipline. Nevertheless, it has been widely used and appreciated by graduate students in diverse fields in the sciences and humanities.

Thesis-writing for perfectionists

Dr Wendy Larcombe, from the Language and Learning Skills Unit, discusses the pitfalls of perfectionism and writer's block and suggests strategies to help you recover from thesis-writing blues. This document downloads in PDF format

Ph.D.: First Thoughts to Finished Writing.
This site, from the University of Queensland, includes and FAQ about conceptualizing, organizing and writing a Ph.D. thesis as well as identifying the major stages in the process of completing a Ph.D..

Australian Digital Theses Program
The aim of the ADT project is to create a national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities. The ADT database provides access to Ph.D. and Masters by Research theses only.

Writing as a Graduate Student
From the UWS Nepean Learning Centre in conjunction with the school of Heath and Nursing. The site includes some study modules.

Association for Support of Graduate students
ASGS is a service organization for graduate students and graduate-degree-granting institutions in the USA. The site features articles of interest tfrom their regualr publication Thesis news

(UMPA) University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association