When you write in a college setting, your writing takes on a much different tone than what you are accustomed to. You must learn to develop a persuasive voice that is backed by a strong argument and solid facts rather than opinions and guesses. One aspect of writing that most college students face is [...]
Thesis Abstract
September 23, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Introduction
September 22, 2011 by admin | No Comments
As a general rule of thumb when you are learning how to write a thesis, it is important to outline the structure of your paper first. This gives you a guideline to work off of although it is bound to change as you progress. After you have completed the abstract, your next step would typically [...]
Methods
September 21, 2011 by admin | No Comments
If you have reached this section of learning how to write a thesis, your abstract and introduction must already be finished. The next section of your thesis is where you will discuss the methods you used to determine the results that you came up with when answering your thesis statement. This area of the paper [...]
Results
September 20, 2011 by admin | No Comments
As you proceed through the sections that teach you how to write a thesis paper, you are developing a way of writing that is completely different from what you have ever learned before. There are sections in a thesis that were most likely not introduced to you when you wrote a high school paper. [...]
Discussion
September 19, 2011 by admin | No Comments
As a brief recap, at this point you have already developed your abstract, introduction, methods section, and results section. In the results section you identified the key results of your study but you did not discuss your interpretations of those results. That is what this next section of your paper is to be used [...]
Conclusion
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You are finally at the conclusion section of your thesis by this point. You should have already constructed a concise but brief abstract, a captivating introduction, explained the methods you used to determine your results, listed the results without interpretation, and developed a discussion section that does relay the interpretations of your results. However, [...]
Recommendations
September 17, 2011 by admin | No Comments
The recommendations section of a paper is not always necessary for a thesis and so it should be used appropriately. However, in most cases it is recommended that you have this section. If you are addressing a problem that you are researching, obviously by the time you are finished with your paper there will [...]
Acknowledgements
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The acknowledgements section of your thesis is highly recommended. In this section, you will take the time to thank anyone that helped you develop your thesis, people that encouraged you. You will also thank anyone that offered assistance or advice, and those that provided you with any necessary grants, interviews, etc. You must make [...]
References
September 15, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Throughout your paper you, you made cited references several times. Any ideas, sets of data, or text that was not your own should have been properly cited in the paper. If not, you may want to go back and make sure that this is done. Any citations that you did make are added to [...]
Appendices
September 14, 2011 by admin | No Comments
An appendix section is not always needed. It really depends on what your thesis consists of. However, if you used any data, charts, etc, you will want to use this section to clarify your data. If you have tables that go beyond a page or two, you will definitely want to include them in [...]