{"id":5421,"date":"2017-02-10T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/comic_strip\/9-differences-between-a-thesis-and-a-journal-article\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:27:04","slug":"9-differences-between-a-thesis-and-a-journal-article","status":"publish","type":"comic_strip","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/9-differences-between-a-thesis-and-a-journal-article","title":{"rendered":"9 Differences between a thesis and a journal article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a researcher you are under immense pressure to publish and one good way to start publishing is to convert your doctoral thesis into a journal article, after your PhD. Before you begin writing, it is essential for you to know exactly how a thesis differs from a journal article. This infographic lists nine ways in which a thesis is different from a journal article. The idea is to help you understand how the two are distinct types of academic writing, meant for different audiences and written for different purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to download a PDF version of this infographic and print it out as handy reference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"9 Differences between a thesis and a journal article\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/9%20differences%20between%20a%20thesis%20and%20a%20journal%20article.png\" alt=\"9 Differences between a thesis and a journal article\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/tips-on-rewriting-your-thesis-as-a-journal-article\">Tips on rewriting your thesis as a journal article<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2417],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5421","comic_strip","type-comic_strip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planning-to-write"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>9 differences between a thesis and a journal article<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This infographic lists nine ways in which a thesis is different from a journal article.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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