Graduate thesis
Graduate thesis is a compulsory submission for academic advance and scholarship. It is the first and a very important step in the career of an academic or a scholar who aspires to be one. The submission is serious enough to merit detailed and in depth study and consideration at every step of the work.
The foremost necessity for beginning this work is to find and identify an original problem. By definition such a submission must contribute to the study of an area that has not been explored before yet is of value to the field. After identifying the problem, a viable solution to it must be presented for the paper to be of any value. The questions that are raised in evaluation are: what is the question that has been raised? How much value does the question have? Has the question been properly treated? Has the answer made a contribution to the pool of knowledge already existing? Naturally then, a clear statement of the problem is very necessary along with a review of the work that has been done on the same topic. This establishes the historical background that supports the question and its answer.
To get started on the project, it is useful to prepare a detailed and extended table of contents that contains all the sections and sub-sections that are to be treated. This outline can be studied meticulously to ascertain what is redundant and what is essential to the submission and the problem being answered. The table may, in the end, be curtailed at the final stage but it provides a base for your work. It is good to remind yourself at the very outset that writing the dissertation takes longer than the actual research work. This is because in composing the text there is need for reworking almost at every step to ensure that it is reader friendly. It is the organizing of the material to be included that takes the longest time and consideration such a submission is a sophisticated scholarly writing that requires seriousness of purpose and execution.
No scholar can produce a good and defendable dissertation without genuine interest and enthusiasm in the subject being treated. The work is arduous, and to sustain your initial interest it must attract your own strong opinions that you want to establish in the academic arena. A lukewarm approach can spell the doom of your research work and de-motivate you within a short period of time. Make it your idea, not something that is forced on you or is undertaken because you think it will be easy to handle and write about.
Submission criteria for research writing differ from institute to institute and university. The scholar is required to be aware of the necessary details and abide by them if he does not want his submission to face problems, be delayed or rejected.
Graduate thesis is the first attempt of students to present well thought out ideas and points of view to an erudite audience. Its success lies in its acceptance by this audience especially so since the members have been dealing with pedagogy for a long time. Along with the degree that is awarded for the work, a sense of pride and achievement is an incentive towards such hard work.
