The Thesis Structure Handbook: From Research Question to Defense

Most thesis guidance tells you what to write. This handbook tells you how it should be built. I wrote this after years of sitting across from graduate students who had good ideas and strong research, but couldn't get their thesis to hold together as a document. The problem was rarely the research. It was the structure.

Inside, you'll find a chapter-by-chapter framework covering how to frame a research question so it can carry a thesis, how to build a methodology chapter an examiner can follow, how to structure a literature review that argues rather than lists, and how to anticipate the questions you'll face at defense — from your own document's structure, not guesswork.

This is a structural framework, not a citation-style guide, and not a discipline-specific methods manual. It works alongside your field's own conventions rather than replacing them. You still do the thinking. This just makes sure the thinking has somewhere solid to live.

Who it's for: master's and PhD students at any stage from proposal to defense prep, in any field, writing in English.
Who it's not for: undergraduates, or anyone looking for a fill-in-the-blank template to submit without doing the underlying work.