CIRCA:Humanities Computing Thesis Resources

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Thesis Outline

• Thesis Writing: How To Write A Masters Thesis

Thesis Proposal

• Graduate Thesis Proposal

• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation

• Thesis Proposal from Lakehead University

Literature Review

• Literature Review from University of Toronto

• Wikipedia Literature Review entry There’s a great list of additional readings.

• How to write a Literature Review, an essay from the University of Guelph.

Master’s Thesis Examples

Here is a list of Humanities Computing thesis examples from 2010. If you access these links off campus then you have to enter your CCID. If you would like to see more examples enter “Humanities Computing Thesis” in the U of Alberta Library catalogue.

• Why bother? Examining the motivations of users in large-scale crowd-powered online initiatives by Piotr Organisciak

• The Null Game: feature-specific player enjoyment in massively multiplayer online role playing games by Matthew Bouchard

• Kallithea to Halos: the defense network of the north Othrys mountains by Christopher Myles Chykerda

• Fair Game: An Anthropological Study of the Negotiation of Fairness in World of Warcraft by Alicia Hibbert

• The Discourse of the Information Age by Andrew Keenan

General Information

• Wikipedia’s Thesis entry

• Coming up with a Thesis Topic