Looking for thesis recommendations

Question

Hi everyone!! I'm starting a master's program soon, and the main part of my studies will be a research-intensive thesis for around 60-80 pages. Obviously, I know about Microsoft Word, but what some of the other tools that may be useful for the process of composing and writing a thesis? Like transferring data and/or charts from R to the text editor, or formatting references. Any tips will be appreciated!

Answer 1

I think you probably know this, but in case it’s helpful, JSOR and Google Scholar were my two go-to resources for conducting literature reviews & finding good sources in general.

I’ve also used Grammarly for checking paper structure and grammar: https://app.grammarly.com/, or Expresso for the same task https://www.expresso-app.org/

When I was working on my ideas & paper outline, I found MindMapping really useful: https://www.mindmeister.com/

Writefull for Word is great for proofreading, and other tasks like browsing useful phrases for presenting literature review and finding synonyms: https://www.writefull.com/writefull-for-word

For citations, I mainly used Zotero through my university library or Bibctation if I needed a quick reference or a citation list: https://www.bibcitation.com/ (just tried their Word plugin, it’s okay)

Wordtune was also a great help for rephrasing long paragraphs or making my convoluted sentences easier to understand: https://www.wordtune.com/