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Unpublished Dissertations: Where Can Students Find Them?
Unpublished dissertations serve a considerable contribution to your research writing. It is necessary to underline the fact that the majority of students tend to work with published sources ignoring the usefulness of unpublished dissertations.
The problem is that we have little information about these works and can hardly get access to them.
The Role of Unpublished Dissertations
Most unpublished dissertations can be available in institutions and online databases. It should be noted that the thesis of unpublished dissertations are registered with abstracts.
Unpublished dissertations play a significant role for those students who use them:
- Contribution to research paper;
- Can serve as an example for well structuring and thoughts organization;
- Unpublished dissertations contribute to correct formatting.
Correct Citation
It is necessary to underline the fact that appropriate citation is important element in unpublished dissertations. Consider the point that every unpublished dissertation contains the following citation aspects:
- The name of the author;
- Dissertation title;
- The completion year;
- Degree;
- Institution name.
There is a debate between the scholars as to including unpublished dissertation into systematic meta-analysis and reviews. Such sources are usually used as study proxy quality; nevertheless, it was proved that such works have better quality than the published ones.
Comparative analysis of unpublished and published sources demonstrated the fact that all published works are predominantly based of research findings, while unpublished ones disclose the examination of specific intervention types.
It is necessary to underline the fact that students should make use of unpublished doctoral dissertations, as these document scan contain interesting facts being unknown to the majority; they can become a valuable contribution to your academic research.