Writing a graduation paper.

The major myth in writing a graduation paper is that you start writing at Chapter One and then finish your writing at Chapter Three. This is seldom the case. The most productive approach in writing the graduation paper is to begin writing those parts of the graduation paper that you are most comfortable with.

Then move about in your writing by completing various sections as you think of them. At some point you will be able to spread out in front of you all of the sections that you have written. You will be able to sequence them in the best order and then see what is missing and should be added to the graduation paper. This way seems to make sense and builds on those aspects of your study that are of most interest to you at any particular time. Go with what interests you, start your writing there, and then keep building!

Review two or three well organized and presented graduation papers. Examine their use of headings, overall style, typeface and organization. Use them as a model for the preparation of your own graduation paper. In this way you will have an idea at the beginning of your writing what your finished dissertation will look like. A most helpful perspective!

A simple rule – if you are presenting information in the form of a table or graph make sure you introduce the table or graph in your text. And then, following the insertion of the table/graph, make sure you discuss it. If there is nothing to discuss then you may want to question even inserting it.

Another simple rule – if you have a whole series of very similar tables try to use similar words in describing each. Don't try and be creative and entertaining with your writing. If each introduction and discussion of the similar tables uses very similar wording then the reader can easily spot the differences in each table.

We are all familiar with how helpful the Table of Contents is to the reader. What we sometimes don't realize is that it is also invaluable to the writer.

Use the Table of Contents to help you improve your manuscript. Use it to see if you've left something out, if you are presenting your sections in the most logical order, or if you need to make your wording a bit more clear. Thanks to the miracle of computer technology, you can easily copy/paste each of your headings from throughout your writing into the Table of Contents.

Then sit back and see if the Table of Contents is clear and will make good sense to the reader. You will be amazed at how easy it will be to see areas that may need some more attention. Don't wait until the end to do your Table of Contents. Do it early enough so you can benefit from the information it will provide to you.

When you are including a Conclusions section in your graduation paper make sure you really present conclusions and implications. Often the writer uses the conclusions/implications section to merely restate the research findings.

Potentially the silliest part of the graduation paper is the Suggestions for FurtherResearch section. This section is usually written at the very end of your writing project and little energy is left to make it very meaningful. The biggest problem with this section is that the suggestions are often ones that could have been made prior to you conducting your research.

Now it's time to write the last chapter. But what chapter is the last one? Certainly you wrote Chapter One at the beginning of this whole process. Now, at the end, it's time to "rewrite" Chapter One. After you've had a chance to write your graduation paper all the way to the end, the last thing you should do is turn back to Chapter One.

Reread Chapter One carefully with the insight you now have from having completed Chapter Three. Does Chapter One clearly help the reader move in the direction of Chapter Three? Are important concepts that will be necessary for understanding Chapter Three presented in Chapter One?

Answer the following questions:

· Do you agree that writing a graduation paper in your field is similar to writing a scientific report?

· Do you know the accepted methodological approaches in writing graduation paper? If you do, where did you learn them?

· Are you taking all these steps in writing your graduation paper?

· What stages have you already passed?

· What stage are you in currently? What t steps are to be taken yet?

· Do you see any difference between the steps described here and the Ukrainian standards?

Prepare a 2 minute story about the framework of the format of your graduation paper.

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