8 Tips To Write A Thesis in 30 Days (Bonus Tip Included)

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All students want to know how to write a thesis in a month. But

before sharing the tips that I’ve used in my writing journey, we first
need to ask: is it possible to write a thesis in one month, and actually
finish it? The answer to this question is yes! You absolutely can write
a thesis in 30 days. And you can write your thesis, from start to finish,
without the emotional distress that often comes with such a
monumental task. And, before you ask, no you’re not going to pay
anybody to write a thesis for you. You’re going to write your thesis by
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yourself.
I’ve written two Masters’ theses, a PhD dissertation and a draft of a

book. Here are the 8 tips that have helped me write my thesis as
quickly as possible and get to the other side.
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My 8 tips on how to write a thesis or dissertation in a month
1. Adjust Your Expectations
2. Don’t Be a Perfectionist
3. Take the 80/20 Rule Seriously
3.1 Use Grammarly: An Online Writing Assistant
4. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
5. Complete a Quick First Draft
6. Journal Articles Are Your Best Friend
7. Write (Your Thesis) Everywhere
8. Bonus Tip – Join Online Writing Communities
My 8 tips on how to write a thesis or

dissertation in a month
Before we start, let me say that no one is born knowing how to write a
thesis. My professors were not born knowing how to write a thesis
and I wasn’t born knowing how to write a thesis either.
I learned how to write a thesis. It was not easy, and I struggled a lot in
writing my first thesis. That’s until I discovered what I needed to do to
push through and finish writing it.
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I then used those lessons and applied them to my second thesis and
every writing assignments since then. Writing became fun.
In fact, I was having so much fun writing my second thesis that I took
on extra writing assignments. Hence the birth of this blog.
1. Adjust Your Expectations
If you want to finish writing your thesis in a month, the first thing you
need to recognize is that you don’t need to break new grounds in your
thesis for your thesis to be acceptable.
If for some reason you think you need to break new grounds, then you
need to quickly adjust your expectations. The point of a thesis is to
demonstrate mastery of the literature and show that you’re able to
competently synthesize and present those works persuasively.
That’s all you need to do.
If you’re aiming for more, then consider these two points:
You don’t have the advanced training or the experience yet to

“contribute” to the field. It’s certainly not impossible, but that’s
not what’s expected of you in your M.A thesis (and even in your
PhD thesis). In fact, if you can just slightly “advance” the
research, that’s considered a great accomplishment!
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literally everything on your subject. And that’s what you’re

expected to do when you’ve already finished writing your thesis,
and decided to pursue an academic career.
For these two reasons, I think it’s best to view your thesis as
something that reflects what you’ve been trained to do, which is to
write a good thesis using the skills you already have. You are enough
and you probably already have what it takes to write your thesis. So
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don’t be too hard on yourself. Think of this: Just like you can’t run a
marathon if you’ve been training for a 5k, you also can’t “contribute
to the field” when you’re still in the process of being trained on how
to write a thesis. Most probably, this is your first time writing a
masters degree thesis, so take it easy. (More on writing a PhD
dissertation below).
So, adjust your expectations accordingly.
Now, if you are trying to write your PhD thesis in a month, let me first
say that it’s almost impossible. But if you have certain circumstances
(say like a serious illness), then talk to your advisor about it and see
what he/she suggests.
2. Don’t Be a Perfectionist
A professor once told me, if you want to write a perfect thesis, “you
will never finish writing.” And he was right. I can’t begin to tell you
just how much time I wasted trying to write a flawless thesis
(AHHH!). In the end, it was not worth it. I ended up procrastinating
and wasting time. I wish I could have that time back. Please, don’t
make the same mistake I made.
After that emotionally draining experience, I changed my approach. I

strove to write something good (and not perfect). I then got feedback
on my ideas from my professors and went back and made them better.
Eventually, they were, in my eyes, perfect.
I was happy.
If you still think you need to be a perfectionist, consider this: there’s

always more you can say about your topic. There are more examples
you can discuss, more evidence to support your arguments with, and
there is an infinite number of ways to organize your ideas, paragraphs
and chapters to eventually turn your thesis into a “masterpiece.” You
literally can go on forever writing and re-writing your thesis.
If you’re tight on time and you want to finish writing your thesis in 30
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days, then do yourself a favor and focus on being done. Write

something that’s good enough and move on knowing that you will get
back to it later.
So stop fixing things day in and day out. The goal is to make linear
progress every single day until you’re done.
Remember, a mediocre finished thesis is better than a perfect

unfinished one.
3. Take the 80/20 Rule Seriously
Each writing assignment will take you as much time as you’re willing
to give it.
So if you give yourself 10 hours to write what usually takes 2 hours,

then you will spend 10 hours working on it.
And the opposite is true.
If you have an assignment that usually takes 10 hours to finish, and I

give you 2 hours to work on it, you will probably finish it in 2 hours.
On this basis, if you want to write your thesis in 30 days, you have to
decide that 30 days is all you have to finish writing it. Be firm about
this deadline, and work with the aim of finishing.
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services that I believe in and can stand behind. And this is one of
those amazing products that can be of tremendous benefit to you if
you are looking to get over writer’s block and avoid unnecessary
slowdowns.
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Okay, so quickly: what should you expect from Grammarly?
Grammarly can help save you a lot of time – especially when you are
stuck looking for the right word, or the right way to phrase a sentence.
Grammarly gives you a list of context-specific vocabulary
suggestions/enhancements/corrections and allows you to make an
informed decision about what’s best in your specific writing context.
This makes your writing flow better and allow you to move forward at
a faster rate.
Here are testimonies by students about how Grammarly has helped

them with writing their thesis.
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Here are some statistics on how Grammarly has helped students and
writers get better results.
With Grammarly, you don’t have to worry about proofreading. It will

do that for you. You don’t have to worry about manually checking for
plagiarism, style, punctuation, and even wordiness. Grammarly can
help you do all of that and will also offer explanations for the
reasoning behind each correction.
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You can also use Grammarly for better and more professional
sounding emails – especially when you want to email your advisor
and your committee. You can also use Grammarly across pretty much
all of your social media platforms including twitter, facebook,
linkedin and more.
In order to get access to all the tools that will help you write your
thesis efficiently, I recommend their premium plan. The total cost
comes out to 2 – 3 cups of cappuccinos… it’s worth it.
4. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

Here’s a dose of realism.
As original as you would like to be in your thesis, someone has

already written on your topic… and that’s a great thing!
Someone has read the same sources, summarized them and put them
in their literature review. You can save yourself a whole lot of time by
reading literature reviews. There, you will see exactly how they used
those sources and how they might fit into your work. Consult the
original sources briefly, but as much as necessary to get the main
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ideas out of them, and move on.
A literature review shouldn’t take you more than a week to complete

if you plan to finish writing in 30 days, and that’s totally doable.
5. Complete a Quick First Draft
The fastest way to finish writing is to write quickly…duh.
What I mean by that is if you’re stuck and you can’t quite round up
the paragraph or idea you’re working on, don’t dwell on it. Move on
to other topics within your thesis and write them out.
The most helpful tip that I can share with you is to force yourself to
write a quick high school draft (first draft) of the entire thesis. Go all
the way through until you have a completed first draft of your thesis
in your hands.
This is going to be tremendously helpful for your progress because if

you can see the conclusion of your thesis, you will a have better sense
of which parts of your thesis need work, and which parts need to be
completely cut out.
In fact, that’s, in my opinion, the only way to know what your thesis
really needs. I say this because imagine if you had spent tens of hours
fixing a paragraph only to discover later on (or be told by your
advisor) that you really don’t need it.
Let me tell you, it freakin sucks!
6. Journal Articles Are Your Best Friend
Journal articles are usually less than 25 pages in length and sometimes
even less than 15 pages long. The best part about them: they’re
succinct. You can pretty much read the abstract and you’ll know
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exactly what the main argument is and the strategy of the paper.
All you need to do then is to look for the evidence in the paper itself.
It shouldn’t take you anything more than 3 hours to get this
information out of the paper. And when you get good at this, it will
take you even less than 3 hours.
Moreover, journal articles are a great way to help position your thesis
within the literature on the topic, and you will have a much clearer
destination when you do so.
See my post on how to read faster.
7. Write (Your Thesis) Everywhere
If you’ve been following my blog, then you know that I champion

using free time effectively.
Plan to read or write everywhere: whether you’re waiting on a friend,

waiting for the bus, or eating lunch. It will help you address what I’ve
called elsewhere as the “familiarity deficit.” Read that post here.
Don’t underestimate the value of that time. It will give you a much
needed head-start when it’s time to sit down and work on the relevant
chapter within your thesis.
The key to finishing your thesis in 30 days is to keep writing even

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8. Bonus Tip – Join Online Writing Communities
Yes. Join online writing communities. They’re free and you will get a
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whole lot of support from people who are going through the same
thing. Try Phinished. I’ve used it when I wrote my first thesis and it
helped me a bunch.
I need to caution that it is easy to spend a lot of time on Phinished

reading what others have to say. You might find yourself reading page
after page about the challenges others are going through: including
what they’re doing to move through the process, and how far they are
in their thesis writing.
If you want to finish, then use it with the intention to finish and not to
waste more time or procrastinate.
Hope this will help you finish your thesis in 30 days!
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90 Day Challenge, Writing

8 Tips to Write a Thesis in 30 Days (Bonus

All students want to know how to write a thesis in a month. But

I’ve written two Masters’ theses, a PhD dissertation and a draft of a

My 8 tips on how to write a thesis or

1. Adjust Your Expectations

That’s all you need to do.

If you’re aiming for more, then consider these two points:

You don’t have the advanced training or the experience yet to

come up with somethingCookie new. Why?ACCEPT

literally everything on your subject. And that’s what you’re

So, adjust your expectations accordingly.

After that emotionally draining experience, I changed my approach. I

If you still think you need to be a perfectionist, consider this: there’s

days, then do yourself a favor and focus on being done. Write

Remember, a mediocre finished thesis is better than a perfect

3. Take the 80/20 Rule Seriously

So if you give yourself 10 hours to write what usually takes 2 hours,

And the opposite is true.

If you have an assignment that usually takes 10 hours to finish, and I

Okay, so quickly: what should you expect from Grammarly?

Here are testimonies by students about how Grammarly has helped

Lucy Jade ANutr

Read more on Twitter

#WhiteSmoke online editor combined with

Read more on Twitter

With Grammarly, you don’t have to worry about proofreading. It will

4. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

As original as you would like to be in your thesis, someone has

ideas out of them, and move on.

A literature review shouldn’t take you more than a week to complete

5. Complete a Quick First Draft

The fastest way to finish writing is to write quickly…duh.

This is going to be tremendously helpful for your progress because if

Let me tell you, it freakin sucks!

6. Journal Articles Are Your Best Friend

See my post on how to read faster.

7. Write (Your Thesis) Everywhere

If you’ve been following my blog, then you know that I champion

Plan to read or write everywhere: whether you’re waiting on a friend,

The key to finishing your thesis in 30 days is to keep writing even

don’t give up too soon. Cookie settings ACCEPT

If you experience some mental roadblocks and you’re dealing with

8. Bonus Tip – Join Online Writing Communities

I need to caution that it is easy to spend a lot of time on Phinished

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