How to Write Your Thesis

This guide intends to help you write your thesis. It provides step by step help.

What is a Thesisbv

Your thesis is a formal document whose sole purpose is to prove that you have made an original contribution to the existing body of knowledge in a particular field. 

Your thesis must answer the following questions:

1. What is (are) the issue(s) that I need to address?

2. Why is this problem Thesis is provided by UK thesis base http://www.ukthesis.org/ important?

3. How will my study add to what we already know about this problem?

4. Who will benefit from what I learn about this problem?

In other words, you must demonstrate that

you have identified a worthwhile problem or question which has not been fully answered,
you have solved the problem or answered the question.
Your contribution to knowledge generally lies in your solution or answer.

To prove the originality and value of your contribution, you must present a thorough review of the existing literature on the subject, and on closely related subjects. Then, by making direct reference to your literature review, you must demonstrate that your question (a) has not been fully answered, and (b) is worth Thesis is provided by UK thesis base http://www.ukthesis.org/ answering.

Always remember that a thesis is a formal document: every item must be in the appropriate place, and repetition of material in different places should be eliminated.

The Structure of the Thesis

1. Introduction

This is a general introduction to what the thesis is all about -- it should be more than just a description of the contents of each section. Briefly summarize the question (you will be stating the question in detail later), some of the reasons why it is a worthwhile question, and perhaps give an overview of your main results. 

2. Literature Review

Here you provide a review of the existing literature. What you need to do is to present a thorough review of the literature on the subject. This is the foundation on which you build your own research. You organize this section by idea, and not by author or by publication. For example if there have been three important main approaches to analyzing the exchange rate to date, you might organize subsections around these three approaches.

3. Research Question orThesis is provided by UK thesis base http://www.ukthesis.org/#p#分页标题#e# Problem Statement

This section usually consists the following:

a. a concise statement of the question that your thesis addresses
b. justification, by direct reference to section 2, that your question has not been fully answered
c. a discussion as to why it is worthwhile to answer this question.

4. Describing How You Solved the Problem or Answered the Question

This section has only one purpose: convince the reader that you answered the question or solved the problem that you set for yourself in Section 3. So show what you did that is relevant to answering the question or solving the problem.

5. Conclusions

This section usually consists of the following:

a. Conclusions Thesis is provided by UK thesis base http://www.ukthesis.org/
b. Summary of Contributions
c. Future Research

Conclusions should be short, concise statements of the inferences that you have made because of your work. All conclusions should be directly related to the research question stated in Section 3.

The Summary of Contributions are usually of much interest to the readers. You should list the contributions of new knowledge that your thesis makes.

The Future Research subsection is included so that researchers in the future have the benefit of the ideas that you generated while you were working on the project.

6. References

The list of references is closely tied to the literature review in section 2. Most readers of your thesis scan your list of references looking for the important works in the field. All references given must be referred to in the main body of the thesis.

How to GetThesis is provided by UK thesis base http://www.ukthesis.org/ Started

The best way to get started on your thesis is to prepare an extended outline. You begin by making up the Table of Contents, listing each section and subsection that you propose to include. For each section and subsection, write a brief description of the contents of that section. The entire outline might be 2 to 5 pages long. You may show the outline to your thesis supervisor for comments and guidance.