Thesis writing software, from reading notes to chapters.
Each chapter of your thesis gets its own place in Wryte, with your reading notes in the same project. When a draft goes to your supervisor, Wryte can make a Word file with your changes marked as tracked changes.
Abstract to conclusion, ready to fill in.
The Thesis or Paper template sets out the usual parts, each with a line on what it’s for, plus a folder of reading notes and a page for your supervisor’s feedback, both kept out of the finished document.
Thesis or Paper template
Manuscript
- AbstractThe question, method, findings and contribution, in about 250 words.
- IntroductionContext, the gap, your research question and how the work is organised.
- Literature ReviewWhat is known, how it fits together, and where your question sits.
- MethodologyWhat you did and why, in enough detail to repeat it.
- ResultsWhat you found, without interpretation.
- DiscussionWhat the findings mean, their limits, and how they answer the question.
- ConclusionThe contribution, and what should come next.
- ReferencesYour bibliography.
Research
- Reading Notes
- Paper NotesDuplicate for each paper you read.
- Supervisor FeedbackComments to act on, with dates.
Paper Notes
- Author, title, year:
- Where to find it:
- Main argument:
- Useful quotations (with page numbers):
- How it relates to my work:
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Goals
Goals, notes and checkpoints.
- A daily goal and a goal for the whole thesis, with a history of the days you wrote.
- Split Editor for a paper’s notes beside the paragraph that discusses it.
- Checkpoints (⌘5) of each chapter before a round of revisions.
- Outline (⌘3) to see the argument chapter by chapter, with status and word counts.
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Send to Editor
Tracked changes for your supervisor.
If your supervisor works in Word, Send to Editor makes a Word document with your changes since the last draft marked as tracked changes, so they can see what you’ve done with their comments.
Low tide.docx · tracked changes since the checkpoint of 26 October
Her father’s dinghy lay on the slipway with its bow turned to the town. Someone had hauled it up past the weed line and chocked it with two bricks, carefully, as if they meant to come backneatly, the way you’d leave a thing you meant to come back for. The oars were gone. So was the name.
She crouched by the transom. Where Margaret had been, in her father’s careful white capitals, there was a square of fresh grey paint that hadn’t been there on Sunday, still tacky under her thumb.
What to keep using alongside it.
Wryte has no footnotes, no citation manager and no Zotero integration, and it doesn’t build lists of figures or tables. Keep your references in Zotero or a similar tool, and plan to do the final formatting, with citations and notes, in Word or whatever your university requires.
Where Wryte helps is the long middle: getting from a pile of reading notes to chapters that hold together.