Introduction:

Resilience in doing
a thesis
PETER STEANE AND SUZAN BURTON
Skills used to sustain you in your
project
• completing a thesis relies on the ability to seek out
• and listen to good advice, to structure and develop a coherent and
well planned
• project, good writing skills and the drive to achieve a difficult goal.
Stage of a thesis
• the preparatory
concerns topics important when first considering the task of doing a thesis.

• Operational
The operational level contains chapters pertaining to the actual time while
undertaking your thesis.

• and submission levels.

The submission level includes chapters written on topics relevant when reaching
the final stages of your thesis prior to submission and/or publication.
Preparation for the thesis
and the early stages
• Asking yourself : ‘’Is a thesis right for you?’’