Research and Thesis Handbook

Helpful Hints & Timely Tips

De: Thomas Jerome Baker

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This book is primarily intended for students writing an undergraduate or BA thesis, and who may be unsure about what they need to do in order to start and finish writing their thesis. As a handbook, it gives the Big Picture, telling the historical background about scientific research, the learning by researching pedagogical paradigm, and how thesis writing became ingrained into higher education world-wide. It is also a useful reference for researchers, thesis supervisors, academic research instructors, academic writing teachers, and students new to academic writing, especially English Language Learners. While the ways in which we research and compose papers and theses may change constantly, from year to year, from university to university, and from country to country, the fundamentals remain the same. Writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way. This book provides you with the tools to do these four things successfully. Doing original student research and writing your thesis or research paper should start long before you begin your thesis seminar at the end of your professional education program. However, even under ideal circumstances, there will be problems you need to overcome. Maybe it's your own procrastination, maybe the writing isn't happening the way you hoped it would, maybe you don't have an ideal thesis supervisor, maybe your writing skills are not at the level it needs to be, maybe you are writing in a second or foreign language, or worse: maybe you have lost confidence in yourself... Whatever the case may be, this book will get you back on track to finish your BA or Master's Thesis. This book wil provide you with motivation, aid, comfort, and self-confidence once again. It has many helpful hints and timely tips. If you are already writing your research article or your thesis, this book will be useful in keeping you focused on finishing your writing in a timely manner. It provides background information about what original research is, what we mean by the scientific method, where and when research and learning became a reciprocal process, and how it helps to develop the human capital of a nation. The information in this book is tried and tested. I used it to write my BA Thesis, and will use it again to write my MA Thesis. The motivating concepts in this book was also used with undergraduate English Pedagogy students at Universidad Andrés Bello in 2008-2009 and MA students at Universidad Santiago de Chile (USACH) in September, 2009. Those students went on to successfully write their thesis and are now living testimony to the transformative nature of the concepts you will find within the pages of this book.