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Can you use a Doctoral thesis paper as a reference in a research paper?


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broken destin offline Unverified User #
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As long as you give referance to it I think you can.

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helpingmehelpyou offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
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Technically, doctoral theses are “published” by the college that they are written at. So, anyone who wanted to check the reference to get more information could do so. The only caution I would give is to be a little more critical of doctoral theses than you are of published journal articles, as they have not be as extensively reviewed.

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the_girl_you_knew2 offline Verified User (1 year, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
Nottingham, J8, GB | 1 year, 7 months ago (54 minutes after post)

yeah you can, reference it well and make a point of doing a critical analysis of it as the person above says.

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Waltham, MA, US | 1 year, 7 months ago (2 hours, 38 minutes after post)

Depends on what rules your teacher has set up for your research paper. In general, yes, absolutely. In fact, your teacher will probably be very impressed that you came up with this fairly obscure citation. You must be a really creative and dogged researcher.

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