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Here are few useful suggestions for writers who are struggling

If you find that you are struggling with your college term paper, trust my words that you aren’t the only one. Your preliminary education does not train you in writing term papers and hence it is common to find college students making common mistakes when attempting to write those papers for the first time or … Continue reading “Here are few useful suggestions for writers who are struggling”

If you find that you are struggling with your college term paper, trust my words that you aren’t the only one. Your preliminary education does not train you in writing term papers and hence it is common to find college students making common mistakes when attempting to write those papers for the first time or in the initial attempts. Some tips here may help you to make your struggle as a novice research writer slightly easier. At least we hope so!!

Know precisely what your supervisor wants from you: You must know your problem statement well enough and all your doubts must be clarified in the beginning only. It is always better to ask questions than to put your efforts in doing work that isn’t correct. Moreover your efforts should be aligned in the same direction that your supervisor so desires.
Try to have an innovative topic after enough brainstorming: a good topic can only lead to a good write up. You must spend ample time and effort into choosing the topic itself. Never do it as a hasty task else you would not be able to create a research that is unique and at the same time is interesting for you. Taking guidance from your supervisor is perfectly ok.
Draft an outline before you actually begin writing: The process of writing a detailed outline is applicable in all stages and levels of writing. You may to rework on it a couple of times but doing that will only eventually structure out a good paper. Taking help from sources is a good idea for the same.
Have sufficient evidence for your answer support: all the claims you put in your paper need the backing of sufficient evidence. Whatever you incorporate as content from other sources, have it as substantive evidence and include it in references to add authenticity.
Have a strong and clear thesis statement: if your thesis statement is strong and then it would eventually lead to a strong and meaningful conclusion. Of course you would need to support it with examples, quotes, statistics etc. to take you to the end.
Take essential steps for plagiarism: the complexities related to plagiarism should be understood well by the researchers before actually starting the work as at all costs it has to be avoided for quality research.

Do you want to get your essay checked for free?

Once having completed your writing task, it is important to make sure that your document is nothing less than perfect before you actually hand it over fir review. If you are not careful and specific about it then the results that come then and after in terms of feedback will be difficult to digest and may give you a setback. If you really want to do good work then getting your work checked from someone is very important and what better than having a source that would check your work for you for free. Today, let’s explore some options where you can get your work checked for free and ensure that you don’t have to face criticism or rejection because of careless mistakes:

Your peer: it is always good if students or fellow researchers follow a sense of extending a helping hand to each other as it not only is a good source of help for one another but also fosters the environment from stronger and healthier relationships with each other. Whenever you experience that a peer has checked your paper for you, you would feel that it has been a great learning experience for you too because to check someone else’s work, the only thing that is required is focus. Whenever, in reciprocation, you extend a similar helping hand to check a fellow mate’s paper, you could come across such useful and new idea in writing style that may not have occurred to you and learning from there you could incorporate it in your writing at a later stage or in the next attempt.

Tutor/supervisor: whenever you begin writing your document, it is suggested to work hand in hand with your tutor so to be able to ensure that the best outcome is taken out. With the kind of experience and expertise that your tutor may have, the kind of inputs that he may give you could be way beyond your thought process or consideration. Remember, that your supervisor is your best teacher and how much ever tricky it may be to convince them to involve in your work or to help you, it is worth the effort. This is because then only can you make the best use of your association with them.

Librarian: if you share a good and informal relationship with your librarian, then they could help to go through your work and find mistakes or give suggestions on how to improvise your document. Know that librarians are a treasure of information and this can become some very exclusive and handy support for your write up.

How important are regular supervisor meetings?

You are bound to have a PhD supervisor as a scholar. Sometimes you may even have two supervisors who are in charge of monitoring our progress and extending you support throughout your PhD journey. A supervisor is assigned with the duty to keep a track of the progress that you make and have your schedule reports ready with him. This responsibility to monitor your progress is important for your benefit as well as it ensures that you do not lag behind in your research process and you are able to complete your PhD in a timely fashion with the regular guidance and support that has been extended by your supervisor. Supervisors have the calibre and discretion to extend this support to the supervisor in long distance also but however, some amount of meeting regularly is important to cope up with the intellectual and emotional demands that a PhD raises. The question that should be discussed here is, how often should the supervisor and scholar be meeting?

The first thing that is important here is that the frequency of the meeting between both the scholar as well as the researcher should be mutually agreed upon by negotiation. No one party should be dictating terms to the other party in terms of relationships. Too many meetings some time feel like an apt solution to pace up the work but that may not be necessarily true as if the meetings are too frequent , it can get counterproductive and become more like a burden or a chore rather than a practical and useful chance which could be used productively to guide or to learn.

There isn’t a thumb rule that says, it is the right frequency to meet. How often you meet your supervisor should be determined by the kind of support you think you need for your work. You subject knowledge, prior research experience and exposure to statistical techniques will determine how much of learning and support would be required by you. Usually scholars find it important to meet often in the initial stages of their PhD till they get on track and know exactly what is to be done, same thing in the end of your programme when you need to finalise your thesis. During the interim period, often people tend to meet less as most of the time scholars are busy with the allotted writing or research work quite independently.

How often you meet may not be as important as how much of time when you meet is used up productively. Try to maximise the productivity of how much ever opportunity that you get to meet your supervisor.

Creating the foundation for your Literature Review: continued

Having discussed the foundation of the literature review in the formative blogs, we can further discuss the important components of a good literature review. Create sub heads of the collected content for the LR: you must know the main themes that you will be breaking down your literature review into. Whatever material that you have … Continue reading “Creating the foundation for your Literature Review: continued”

Having discussed the foundation of the literature review in the formative blogs, we can further discuss the important components of a good literature review.

Create sub heads of the collected content for the LR: you must know the main themes that you will be breaking down your literature review into. Whatever material that you have collected, you must stack it up under the correct subhead. There may be some content that you wouldn’t know where to place that is ok. Keep them aside and leave them for the ends rather than discarding them. At the end of this task you may be able to place them better. When you finish segregating all the content into its relevant stack you will get the idea of how much weight you have allocated to each sub theme and whether it is worth it or no.

Design your conceptual schema: all the sub heads that you have created in the previous stage must be organised in a sequential manner, they must go well with each other for which you need to put up ideas that go together under one head and ideas that contradict each other at a more appropriate place. Sequencing out the sub heads is going to help you to create the chapterization pattern to add a sense of connectivity between the ideas and as the reader goes through the chapter from the beginning to the end, he is able to graduate in his understanding and learning of the concepts in a smooth manner.

Start paraphrasing: when you have put up each thing to where it belongs, you need to now give it your writing so you got to actually start beginning to write your literature review. You can start from any of the subheads, it won’t matter. In fact it is always better to start from a section you are most comfortable with or the one that excites you the most. At this stage, you must not forget to put the citations while you are paraphrasing the content. If you procrastinate the citation work for the end you aren’t doing anything but inviting trouble for yourself. After you have completed the paraphrasing task of all the sections, you have accomplished a big stage in your literature review

By the end of this stage you would have completed the first draft stage of your literature review. Congratulations it isn’t any less than a milestone.

Creating the foundation for your Literature Review

Her we will discuss with you some step process that will help you to create the foundation for your literature review in a jiffy. Finalise your area of research: Before you actually start looking out for articles and books, you must narrow down on your area of research before actually starting with any further on … Continue reading “Creating the foundation for your Literature Review”

Her we will discuss with you some step process that will help you to create the foundation for your literature review in a jiffy.

Finalise your area of research: Before you actually start looking out for articles and books, you must narrow down on your area of research before actually starting with any further on work in that area. Once you do that, you would know exactly which books and articles to pick up and not get attracted towards other material, even though it may appear fascinating to you. Concentrate only on what you have decided upon.
Explore appropriate Literature: do a comprehensive hunt for books and articles that you can find in your area of research. By reading the abstract itself you would come to know whether it pertains to your area of study or no and once if you know that the research paper belongs to your area of study, down load and if required print those articles to have them ready to be used for drafting the Literature review. All this work may not show much productivity coming into hand, but this is important work and the foundation for creating a sound literature and also simplifying the writing task. Do not take a very long time to do that and set aside a specific time frame in which you want to do it so that within the given time, you have created the base for your entire section/chapter.
Search for relevant content in the chosen material: you would have to next do the task of skimming the content of each of the research paper or article that you have chosen linked to your topic of the study. While you do the skimming part, you will have to extract out the relevant part that you will be using in your research. That is:
Definition of the terms that are used in the research paper
Findings, claims and constructs about the research that is getting investigated by you
Identified gaps in the study
Follow up studies that are called
Your opinion about agreement or disagreement with the constructs that you have chosen in the study

When you find these important things from each of the paper, bring them directly onto MS words. Type the key content and while you are doing that keep putting down the name of the author and other referential details alongside itself. Word gives a very simplified option to create an automatic bibliography for you, work on that.

When you are done till here, it becomes easier to move to further completing the Literature Review which we will discuss in the subsequent blogs.