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5 easy and effective tips for writing Dissertations ! Your dissertation is easily the most important project whilst at university as it is generally accepted to be the litmus paper indicating whether you have true potential of a researcher or not. However, it is not just another college assignment you can finish overnight. This article marks at giving you a few quick, easy and effective tips to not fall behind your class and complete a successful dissertation. Sadly, these pointers are often forgotten or ignored. Here’s a quick overview of these age old and tested tips: Do NOT procrastinate: All of us have heard the proverb ‘the early bird catches the worm’. However, when you are undertaking a project that does not have any strict deadlines one forgets to see how important it is to not postpone your work. A dissertation is an extensive project that requires a lot of research and reading but if you leave it for the last minute, your work is either going to be sub standard or incomplete. You don’t want to be the person who is cribbing in the end “I wish I had more time” Divide the dissertation into parts: A dissertation is a very extensive research paper and the extensiveness of the project might just overwhelm you and you may panic and freak out. Thus, it is always advisable to break your project into simple parts and take one thing at a time. Gestalt is a German word meaning to look at things as a whole and not as individual parts. For example when you look at a tree, perceiving it as a tree and not as an integration of leaves and twigs and branches. DO NOT apply it to dissertations. Do NOT make the project over technical: Given that a dissertation is a vast and extensive project which has a lot of data involved, you are not at full liberty to distance yourself from some basic technicalities. But this however does not give you the license to make your piece so technical that one needs to sit down with a thesaurus to understand your project. Also, although dissertations require extensive research, it should be stimulating till the very end. The key is to keep the sub parts short and crisp.

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5 easy and effective tips for writing Dissertations !Your dissertation is easily the most important project whilst at university as it is generally accepted to be the litmus paper indicating whether you have true potential of a researcher or not. However, it is not just another college assignment you can finish overnight. This article marks at giving you a few quick, easy and effective tips to not fall behind your class and complete a successful dissertation. Sadly, these pointers are often forgotten or ignored. Heres a quick overview of these age old and tested tips: Do NOT procrastinate: All of us have heard the proverb the early bird catches the worm. However, when you are undertaking a project that does not have any strict deadlines one forgets to see how important it is to not postpone your work. A dissertation is an extensive project that requires a lot of research and reading but if you leave it for the last minute, your work is either going to be sub standard or incomplete. You dont want to be the person who is cribbing in the end I wish I had more time Divide the dissertation into parts: A dissertation is a very extensive research paper and the extensiveness of the project might just overwhelm you and you may panic and freak out. Thus, it is always advisable to break your project into simple parts and take one thing at a time. Gestalt is a German word meaning to look at things as a whole and not as individual parts. For example when you look at a tree, perceiving it as a tree and not as an integration of leaves and twigs and branches. DO NOT apply it to dissertations. Do NOT make the project over technical: Given that a dissertation is a vast and extensive project which has a lot of data involved, you are not at full liberty to distance yourself from some basic technicalities. But this however does not give you the license to make your piece so technical that one needs to sit down with a thesaurus to understand your project. Also, although dissertations require extensive research, it should be stimulating till the very end. The key is to keep the sub parts short and crisp. Non-acronymisation: This rule simply means that you should now overuse acronyms. This confuses the readers and also is frustrating sometimes. Keeping it simple is the way to go. Proofreading: It is the thumb rule to all assignments. Usually ignored but this is what makes all the difference between an average and a god research paper. You must always finish your dissertation in advance so that you have enough time to proofread it. Having a custom checklist to eliminate errors is a smart way of going about it.A dissertation is a very challenging work and unlike any other college assignment you have done before that could be completed overnight. Dissertations are very time exhausting. But take one step at a time and you sure will get through. All the best !