One of the first steps of completing a thesis or dissertation is seeing what other researchers have written, which will take the form of a Literature Review. You may want to start by looking at other students' theses and dissertations in the databases listed in the boxes to the right. For tips on searching, look at the other tabs of this Research Guide.
View the Literature Review tutorial below for information on creating a literature review.
If you are ready to write, the link below will take you to information on how to format your thesis or dissertation for submission at ECU.
Click the button above to be taken to a Guide on the Side tutorial that will teach you how to search the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. You can use the database to search what others have written for their paper or to help develop a topic.
Theses and Dissertations can be found in the following ECU Libraries subscription databases:
RefWorks is a citation management software that you can use to simplify the research process. You can keep citations to articles in RefWorks, access journal articles in databases without searching for them again, cite sources in your paper, and create a bibliography with RefWorks. This software is available to all students at ECU during the duration of their time at ECU. Click the button below to get registered! Click here for tutorials.
