Research and thesis templates

Four Word templates for postgraduate students and researchers, in English and Arabic: a research proposal, a thesis structure, an abstract and a journal article. Fill in the cover details if you like, then download.

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Structure and guidance, not content: under each heading a grey line says what belongs there, and the writing is yours. Your university’s or journal’s guidelines come before these templates for order, format and referencing.

Cover details (optional)

What you type here is printed on the template’s cover; anything left empty stays in brackets for you to fill in Word.

Research proposal

Introduction, significance and reasons for the topic, problem and questions, aims, scope, key terms, literature review, methodology, a proposed outline by parts or chapters, timeline and references.

Thesis structure

Title page, declaration and approval, dedication and acknowledgements, abstract in English and Arabic, an automatic table of contents, chapters (or parts) with their sections, conclusion, references and appendices.

Abstract

An abstract page in English and one in Arabic, in the order an abstract is written, with keywords.

Journal article

An article for a journal: title, author details and ORCID, abstract and keywords, introduction, literature review, method, analysis, discussion, conclusion and references.

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