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Karen was undertaking a PhD in engineering to investigate whether a new type of plastic was safe to use as cookware. When she started her lab work, she decided to begin writing her thesis, but despite her determination she was having trouble. I knew Karen well, and she was a very good student who had been interested in new plastics ever since her undergraduate studies several years ago.

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  1. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    David Evans†

  2. School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Paul Gruba

  3. Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Justin Zobel

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Evans†, D., Gruba, P., Zobel, J. (2014). Thesis Structure. In: How to Write a Better Thesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04286-2_2

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