noun · academic
thesis
/ˈθiːsɪs/THE·sis
a long piece of academic writing based on original research, usually submitted for a degree
Examples
“She spent a year collecting data for her thesis on urban transport.”
“My supervisor suggested major revisions to the thesis before submission.”
“He defended his thesis successfully and will graduate next month.”
Band 8 sentence
“After three years of fieldwork I restructured my thesis to make the argument clearer and the contribution more explicit.”
Collocations
- write a thesis
- defend a thesis
- master's thesis / doctoral thesis
Word family
Common mistakes
I wrote thesis last year.→I wrote my thesis last year.
I have finished a paper for my degree.→I have finished a thesis for my degree.
Say it for a higher band
5paper→6dissertation→7+thesis
Synonyms
dissertation
paper
Easily confused
dissertation
“In the US, a PhD student usually writes a dissertation rather than a master's thesis.”
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