Unfortunately, the perfect thesis doesn’t exist.
That’s what your professor says, don’t they? But how about this time you prove them wrong? We will do that, together. But let us first get acquainted with the assignment in concern.
A thesis is a long dissertation, written on the basis of and after a research work on a particular problem statement.
Simple? You would think.
A thesis paper typically includes the description of a long research, written in several specified categories of information. The categories or the chapters are – introduction, literature review, research methodology, findings and analysis, and finally the conclusion. Did we just say ‘finally’? Sorry, there is an abstract that you’ll have to write, as well.
Not so simple now, is it?
This is a conundrum that engulfs most of the students. Let us clarify it once and for all.
A thesis, like said earlier, is a long assignment that consists of several sections of information based on a research. A typical thesis is of several pages.
A thesis statement, however, is a single sentence or at most very few sentences that represents the summary of the main problem statement that the main thesis paper is trying to find an answer to.
A thesis statement is a part of a thesis. We hope you are confident on this point now? Let’s jump on to the main thing.
As mentioned in the previous section, a thesis consists of several sections. There are ground rules about each section or chapter of a thesis that you better know if you plan on getting a good grade.
In this part of this text, we’ll let you in a few secrets of the trade. Let us see what.
Your introduction will be the first thing that your professor will read, in your thesis. You need to make it interesting enough for the reader to stay on the page, and informative enough so they are on the same page as you.
Let’s see what you need to do here:
Literature review is the second section or chapter of your thesis. In this section, mention all the sources (texts) that you used for reference in your research. But isn’t the ‘references’ section for this job?
Let us see how a literature review is different from the ‘references’ section:
Methodology section includes the, as the name suggests, methods of carrying out your research. To nail this section, you need to:
This is the part of your thesis assignment where you explain what results you got after carrying out the experiments. Remember the following:
In this last part of your thesis writing, you put an end to the discussions that your paper has been doing. Just make sure you keep these in mind while writing your conclusion:
Now it might sound simple.
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