How to Write a Thesis

A thesis is a paper or set of papers written for a topic or a discussion which you consider being true and you want to prove it with the help of practical experiences or investigations.

Thesis is the base for many scientific investigations and discoveries. Thesis is that thing what you steadily believe in and ready to support your opinion for it.

Some advices about your future thesis paper:

• Choose a topic you are really worrying about. Try to begin your work with seeking for an interesting question or problem
• Leave the most important parts of your work
• Be sure you really have a thesis
• Compare your evidences with others and prove that yours are the best ones
• Divide your work into separate interconnected parts
• If you decide to use some case studies explain the reason of it and ground your choice.

During your work you should give an answer for the following questions:

• What is your problem?
• Why is it important?
• What answers have already existed?
• What answer can you propose?
• How do you can convince everybody in rightness of your work?

Let's see at a couple of additional writing thesis paper advices:

• You should write clearly and briefly. Make an edition more than one time
• Discuss a schedule with your supervisor
• Don't forget to indicate your sources
• Write down your main ideas as quickly as possible
• If you are going to meet with your supervisor take two copies of your tentative work.

And now let's have a good look at each of these points.

1. Choose a topic you are really worrying about

The process of thesis writing is very important and can takes more than several months. To cope with it you will need an assiduity and, the most important, you must be fond of your topic. To support your ideas and self-interest choose the topic you are really carry about and have a desire to study deeper. The best what you can do for a beginning is to find some attractive problem. You should seek for a sound question without trying to find an answer for it, because to find a reliable answer is your general task and aim of your thesis writing.

2. Leave the most important parts of your work

If you want to write a successful thesis you should remember that is should give an interesting question and your task is to find a proper answer for it. After you found a subject you are interesting in, you have to distinguish some riddle that requires more intent look at itself.

You have an accomplishable topic if it's possible to:

• Manage with all applicable sources
• Provide the collection of all required information
• Give proper answers for set questions.

You will consider some problems to be too large and impossible for managing and some would be too narrow and have no space for brilliant work.

3. Be sure you really have a thesis

The introduction of your thesis paper should include the following points:

• The description of the problem you picked out
• Your first and main evidences for its support
• You should make your evidence concise and brisk. Your general work may be involved with variety of examples. In spite of all these your main thesis must give an explanation of it in short and precise form using understandable for a reader language. This task demands a lot of additional work and elaboration because you need to make your thesis statement discrete and it shouldn't contain any equivocal words and expressions. If it's possible try to write your evidence in a distinguishable from others form.

4. Compare your evidences with others and prove that your theses are the best ones. Study available literature

Study the opinion of others about the selected topic. Your task is to explain the following:

• What are the main ways of your question solving?
• Why are the available answers considered to be deficient?
• Why do you consider your answer to be the best one?

Probably your answer will depend on some main theory and employ it to your concrete question. Then you should prove that the selected theory is suitable well for your subject and allows you to find out a better answer than other sources have.

5. Divide your work into separate interconnected parts

The task of introduction is to make three things:

• It should attract the reader's attention to the investigated subject. To do this you can use a sort of initial paragraph which may contain an anecdote, true-to-life example or a situation describing
• It should explain the investigated subject, the usage of material and its quality. It should also represent your main evidence or some propositions for checking
• In the end of the introduction you need to include some guide through your work with the explanation about the content of each passage.

With the upgrowth of the paper your task is to present any new passage and explain its importance in brief. Remember: most of your passages should contain some kind of interconnection with others.

6. If you decided to use some case studies explain the reason of it and ground your choice

• Why did you decide to use case studies at all?
• What was the reason to pick out exact case study?

As usual, the harder case study is, the better it would be for your thesis writing. These kinds of cases don't exactly require your arguments but, on your mind, it would be suitable for it. Try to adapt these hard case studies for your advantage, because they are the most persuasive for the readers because they fully divulge all advantages of your evidences.

7. You should write clearly and briefly. Make an edition and more than one time

• Make the structure of your sentences clear constructed
• Avoid using difficult and unintelligible for a reader words
• When you have some doubts it's better to divide long and difficult question into several simpler ones
• Use brief and consistent passages and don't include more than one subject sentence in each
• Don't plagiarize yourself
• Don't use too much direct quotations and don't forget to mention the author's initials
• Your most important questions and statements should be at the beginning of the passage
• Don't forget to edit your work more than one time (it is obligatory!).

The better your paragraphs organized the better understanding your thesis would have. With the help of them you will develop your subject, your answer search, and present your evidences. You should make your paragraphs brief and dedicated on the main point. Don't forget to check large paragraphs for the mistakes.

Don't use too many citations. If you can't avoid it just paraphrase the main point and indicate the original source.

There are several cases when you would need to use a citation:

• You want to present some extraordinary expression or sound statement about the investigated topic
• Accurately selected citations can represent someone opinion about the subject
• A quotation which gives another name for an ordinary expression.

Don't abuse quotation usage.

8. Discuss a schedule with your supervisor

After you set a deadline and an agenda for your thesis writing you need to assign some time for research and writing stages and coordinate it with your supervisor. It's up to you what schedule would you have. Don't think the supervisor would be bother about it. Don't forget to allot additional time for drafting and reviewing.

9. Don't forget to indicate your sources

Indicate your sources and don't forget to give the initials of each author. Otherwise you will be blamed in plagiarism.

10. Write down your main ideas as quickly as possible

There are several things you should give to your supervisor as early as possible:

• General background information
• Your essential academic schooling
• Your main investigated topic which will further become
• Conclusion of one or two pages
• The explanation why your evidences are better than already available ones
• A list of the most important arguments, with lifelike situations and cases
• A sort of draft including the main points in each paragraph.

11. If you are going to meet with your supervisor take two copies of your tentative work

If you are going to visit your supervisor don't forget to take two copies of the transitional work. Each of them should include the following information:

• Name
• Phone number
• Email address
• Present-day date
• Title of the work.

If you want to facilitate the thesis understanding you can add graphic evidences to it: scheme, diagram, picture and so on. It may help you to prove your evidences.

Some advices may be useful for you and some of them you may consider to be unnecessary. But that thing which you consider to be useless in the beginning of the work would become indispensable in the end or while on thinking about some unsolvable problem.