Pontbot 5 Mistakes You Can Make When Writing a Thesis
In this article, we'll briefly describe what mistakes you can make while writing your dissertation.
1. Your Research Topic Is Too Broad
Your thesis / research topic needs to address a specific topic.
If, for example, you're examining the impact of telecommunications on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), try to narrow the topic to a single aspect of telecommunications.
Ask yourself what specifically interests you about telecommunications.
This way you can narrow down your research question, for example:
- "How do SMEs use Zoom for business meetings?"
- "How has Zoom usage changed in the SME sector since Covid?"
- "The evolution of Zoom's business use in the SME environment between 2019-2022."
2. You Choose a Topic That Doesn't Actually Interest You
You notice this mainly when you have almost no desire to write it.
Think about it, if you choose a topic that you would gladly read even in your free time, then writing about it would almost be a "pleasure".
If you've already submitted your topic and it doesn't interest you, try to make it more enjoyable.
3. You Procrastinate and Procrastinate
Many people keep pushing it, postponing it.
You can easily write a thesis in even 1-2 weeks, that's not the point.
If you've been thinking about the above, then please at least do this:
- Collect the keywords about your topic.
- Prepare a few literary sources so you don't waste time on that.
- Based on the above, create the thesis "skeleton", chapters, write the introduction.
4. You Barely Use Citations / You Use Them Incorrectly
Whatever anyone says, sometimes you can find quite good content on Wikipedia too.
Of course, at universities they almost hate it if you cite from it.
Why? There are several reasons for this:
- It can have multiple anonymous independent authors, the content they publish is not "reviewed". (This is partly true, since users can approve it)
- It doesn't contain "research results", (actually gathering and organizing information is already a research result), but it mostly doesn't focus on results related to a specific problem area.
That's exactly what research should be about - you set a goal, hypothesis, thought, and deduce how you achieve it, and what results you achieved.
If others have also written about this in the topic, or have results, then you can compare it with yours and highlight why yours is better or worse than others.
You can find many research topics and results on Google Scholar and sci-hub!