Keyword - Question - Answer Method
A method that will almost certainly work. Why? Because almost every thesis, if you look at it, is structured in a similar way.
Let's say you need to write about the following topic:
First Step: Extracting Keywords
As a first step, let's look at the keywords, extract them, and then ask questions about them.
The keywords could be:
- forward head posture
- examining forward head posture
- treating forward head posture
- sprinters
- sprinters' circle, set
Second Step: Asking Questions
The question can even be trivial, you might only present it in one sentence, but that's also a sentence. 😎
You might be helping a reader who has no idea about your topic but is interested in your final result.
A few good starts related to the question:
- What,
- From what,
- In what,
- What kind,
- Why,
- How.
Some example questions that might come to mind as a layperson related to the above example sentence: "Examining and treating forward head posture among sprinters."
- What exactly does forward head posture mean?
- What does sprinter mean? How is a sprinter different from a middle-distance or long-distance runner? Why does this thing specifically affect them?
- What causes forward head posture to develop? What other posture types exist? (if any) (psst: It's also information if you don't find data about it, it can be the basis of a research topic 😎)
- How do these differ from each other?
- What potentially negative or positive effects could this type of posture have?
- Why is it worth examining this? What research results can I extract from this?
- If someone reads my thesis, what new information will they extract from it? How can I help other research work?
- Why does this need to be treated? What treatment methods exist?
- How do the treatment methods differ? Why is one better than another?
- In my dissertation, why did I choose that particular treatment method? Why not the other one?
Third Step: Answer the Questions
If you answer all these questions, look for possible answers, then more questions and thoughts will almost come one after another, from which a nice big and long mass of text will be created.
If you feel you don't know how to approach it, Pontbot has a keyword extraction and question generator function too.
Summary: Extract keywords and ask questions about the keywords regarding What, From what, In what, What kind, Why questions.