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Centria Guide for Thesis and Academic Writing 2022
- Thesis contract and forms
- Implementation plan
- Data management plan
- Master´s thesis
- Checklist for the thesis supervisor
- Research-based thesis
- Practice-based thesis
- Diary-based thesis
- Research-based development project, MASTER
- Starting points for writing the theoretical framework
- Concept definitions
- Introduction
- Conclusions and discussion
- Text layout
- Chapter heading and numbering
- Figures, tables and pictures
- Reference concerns more than one sentence
- Publication has two or more authors
- More than one publication by the same author
- Reference to a publication by several authors
- Publication has no author
- Web sources
- Direct quotations
- Secondary sources
- Checking the thesis for plagiarism
- Use of pictures
- Books (printed books, eBooks, audiobooks)
- Report, brochure and blog
- Laws and regulations
- Standards and patents
- Audio and video recordings (videos, TV programmes, podcasts etc.)
- E-mails and phone calls
- Sheet music
- Current Care Guidelines
- Social media (Facebook, X)
- Company intranet and web pages
- Special cases
- 8 UPLOADING THESIS TO THESEUS
- Responsible conduct of research
- Ethical review in the human sciences
- Ethical recommendations for thesis writing
- Research consent
- Research permits
- Handling personal data
- 10 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Master's thesis
- Essay in a maturity test
- Internal release
- Maturity test in EXAM
- Master's degree maturity test
- 13 ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS
- 14 LITERATURE
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The thesis demonstrates the student’s ability to understand, apply and produce professional results in his/her own field. At its best, the thesis serves as a bridge between student and working life.
This guide follows the general principles of thesis composition drawn up in national university of applied sciences working groups in 2005 and 2006. The guide is to be applied in all degree programmes in Centria University of Applied Sciences, but each field also has its own practices that will be explained in more detail in the thesis seminars.
In this updated guide the previous guidelines have been defined more closely. Examples have been added and the biggest changes to the previous guide concern structure models of different theses, assessment and using the Harvard style for referencing, which enables the use of the reference management software Mendeley. Also, the Centria Thesis Word template has been updated. Ethical guidelines have been added to this guide and should be taken into consideration when writing a thesis.
The next members of staff of Centria University of Applied Sciences have participated in compiling and writing this guide: Hanna-Riina Aho, Staffan Borg, Annukka Kukkola, Jennie Elfving, Annika Mylläri, Vesa Nuorva, Marko Ovaskainen, Timo Taari, Päivi Toikkanen and Tuija Tolonen-Kytölä. Karin Kallis was responsible for the English translation.
On behalf of the working group,
Jennie Elfving
GUIDELINES AND LEGISLATION REGARDING THE THESIS PROCESS
- The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Procedures for Handling Alleged Violations of Research Integrity in Finland (RCR guidelines 2023) - The ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences in Finland (Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK guidelines 2019) - Science and field specific ethical norms - Open science and research (Open science) - EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Data Protection Act (1050/2018) - Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999) - Medical Research Act (488/1999)
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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
The Drama of Last Things: Reckoning in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama , Spencer M. Daniels
African Spirituality in Literature Written by Women of African Descent , Brigét V. Harley
Hidden Monstrosities: The Transformation of Medieval Characters and Conventions in Shakespeare's Romances , Lynette Kristine Kuliyeva
Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)envisioning the Black Body in Contemporary Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Urshela Wiggins McKinney
Lawful Injustice: Novel Readings of Racialized Temporality and Legal Instabilities , Danielle N. Mercier
“Manne, for thy loue wolde I not lette”: Eucharistic Portrayals of Caritas in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Drama 1350-1650 , Rachel Tanski
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities , Justiss Wilder Burry
What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC , Jessica L. Griffith
Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida , Karla Ariel Maddox
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings , Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi
Writing Supports for Honors Thesis Students: An Applied Program Evaluation Study , Krysta Banke
An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise , Jessica A. Blackman
Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing , Stephanie A. Harper
Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres , Adam Phillips
Anthropocene Fiction: Empathy, Kinship, and the Troubled Waters at the End of the World , Megan Mandell Stowe
PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace , Jade S. Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design , Sahar M. Alyahya
A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication , Carolyn M. Gubala
Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables , Kara Kristina Larson
Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature , Elizabeth Ricketts
Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 , Melissa "Maggie" Romigh
Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing , Kaelah Rose Scheff
Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature , Ashely B. Tisdale
Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres , Adrienne D. Vivian
Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma , Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi , Spencer Todd Bennington
9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes , Kristen M. Grafton
Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century , Dana Jolene Laitinen
Exploring Refugee Students’ Second Language (L2) Motivational Selves through Digital Visual Representations , Nhu Le
Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema , Shauna A. Maragh
Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media , Andrew R. Miller
Intercessory Power: A Literary Analysis of Ethics and Care in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child , Kelly Mills
The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies , Stephanie N. Phillips
Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels , Zita Rarastesa
"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH , Joshua M. Rea
“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction , Kimber L. Wiggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz , José Aparicio
Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions , Peter Cannon
New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement , Jessica L. Griffith
Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students , Brianna Jerman
The Karoo , The Veld , and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head , Elana D. Karshmer
"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature , Stephanie Lance
Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony , Yulia O. Nekrashevich
Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature , Elan J. Pavlinich
Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology , Michael Repici
No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments , Tanya P. Zarlengo
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida , Haili A. Alcorn
The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature , Timothy M. Curran
Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature , Alisa M. DeBorde
Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy , Taylor B. Johnson
Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization , Scott Neumeister
The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture , Tiffany Wilgar
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals , Cassie Patricia Childs
“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , J. Kevin Jordan
Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature , Sucheta Kanjilal
Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice , Natalie Kass
Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage , Curtis Le Van
Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys , Elizabeth A. Loyer
Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study , Johanna Phelps-Hillen
The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature , Tangela La'Chelle Serls
Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover , Nicole Elizabeth Stodard
(Age)ncy in Composition Studies , Alaina Tackitt
Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities , Katie Lynn Walkup
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Rupturing the World of Elite Athletics: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Suspension of the 2011 IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism , Ella Browning
Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy , Lauren E. Cagle
Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric , Samantha Jo Cosgrove
Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy , Zachary Parke Dixon
The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman : From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic , Jarad Heath Fennell
Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments , Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis
Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , Marisa Carmen Iglesias
Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe , Jessica Trant Labossiere
Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida , Karen Patricia Langbehn
A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles , Jonathan Paul Ray
Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels , Mary Allison Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective , Christine Anne Auger
Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing , Anthony Joseph Casagrande
Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry , Paul T. Corrigan
#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication , Laura Anne Ewing
Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange , Sarah Beth Hopton
'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home , Rondrea Danielle Mathis
Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing , Megan M. Mcintyre
Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art , James Anthony Ricci
Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry , Katherine Jesse Royce
Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing , Jacqueline Marie Smith
Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen , Shannon Tivnan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature , Elizabeth Stuart Angello
Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera , Ryan Alan Blank
Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema , Adam Breckenridge
Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson , Jessica Lauren Cook
Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare , Angela Eward-Mangione
Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure , Julie Marie Gerdes
Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity , Brenda M. Grau
Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression , Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes
Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program , George Douglas Mcarthur
Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley , Katherine Marie McGee
Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction , Jessica Mckee
The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature , Deborah Susan Mcleod
Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity , Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor
Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication , Eric Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts , Ronisha Witlee Browdy
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Gathering the necessary material for a large and saturated project is just half the battle, to set up everything and format the work properly is a real deed, challenging and exacting. There are a lot of specific requirements and rules to be born in mind. But don't take it so hard, we give you all the fundamental information concerning thesis paper format. You'll find out
- what parts a successful work should have;
- what formatting requirements should be adhered to;
- what tips occur to be helpful.
So, get ready to remember all the important principles in terms of paper finalization.
What is a Thesis Format?
In the process of thesis creation, everyone should set up the data in a specific way. The general structure and stylistic patterns are usually the same everywhere, though some minor issues may vary from one department to another.
Correct Thesis Format: Important or Not?
When working with the material it is crucial to stick to the thesis writing format in order to:
- show your professional approach to this activity;
- refine the readability of the text;
- provide convenient navigation through the work;
- bring the skills nearer to the academic standards;
- help the audience focus on the investigation essence.
A Thesis and its Parts
The thesis structure format implies such parts, obligatory for a good consistent work.
Title Page | It is the first page, forming the impression of the whole work. There should be the title itself, the writer's name, academic information (institution, department, and others), and submission date. There may be some additional local requirements as well, just check the local guidelines. |
Abstract | It is a summarized copy of the project, usually consisting of 170-300 words. A key target, chosen methods, results, and finalizing inference should be introduced here. |
Acknowledgments | It is a paragraph to express gratitude towards your tutor, professor – or any person – who helped you during the work. |
Table of Contents | It is a significant part of a basic thesis format, reflecting the project structure. There is a recommendation to create it with the help of the automatic updating function, presented in the word-processing app. |
Figures and Tables | If there is any visual material (tables, schemes, charts, and whatnot) in the work, make up a list of all issues. Index them and add relevant page numbers to it. |
Introduction | Due to the introduction thesis format, here the author gives some background data, a hypothesis, and key points of the work. |
Literature Review | This part is devoted to literary sources, a person took as the basis of the research. Here it is advisable to analyze existing investigations and point out what is explored insufficiently. |
Methodology | It is a section where methods of work should be presented (including information about participants of the experiment, used instruments, and data collecting). |
Results | It is a place for all the findings the author has got. The best way of presenting is visual (charts, schemes, etc.).The format of a thesis insists on adding them sufficiently. |
Discussion | In the section the author should analyze the results of the researching activity, offer the way of their implication, and formulate ideas for future investigation. |
Conclusion | This part is the summary of the writer's results and ideas, underlining the significance of the work and its benefit for the followers. |
References | It is a list of all cited sources a person used while creating the project. Check the local format rules to avoid any mistakes while writing this section. |
Appendices | Here the writer should add any supplementary he needs for supporting the project, especially if they are too overwhelming for the main body. |
Having discussed the standard structure of the paper, it's high time to discuss useful rules and tips on how to complete the processing.
A General Guideline for Thesis Formatting
Well, how to format a thesis correctly? The most important points are presented in the table.
Font | Times New Roman, 12 pt |
Margins | 1 inch from every side of the page |
Spacing | Double, throughout all the text |
Citing | It depends on the formatting style (APA, MLA, or Chicago) |
Headings and Subheadings | Format them in a consistent way throughout the whole work |
Tables and Figures | Every issue should have its own number and a clear legend, and be included in the list mentioned above |
Page numbers | Every page should have a sequential number, placed as it is described in the local guideline (upper right, center, etc.) |
Page Break | It is used to divide all the material into sections and chapters. |
These recommendations are general, and every writer must look through the local guidelines in all cases. Almost every department has a thesis format example, and by getting acquainted with it everyone is certain to get rid of potential mistakes. It doesn't take much time but accentuates your interest and thoroughness, so important for a perfect researcher.
Other Tips on how to Format the Thesis
Apart from answering the question 'What is the thesis format?', we'd like to present some additional recommendations and tips concerning the work. It is useful to remind that visual division helps to acquire information in a better way
- Use single-spaced blocks for quotations or footnotes.
- Add a special line for the committee signature on the relevant page.
- Organize margins from all the sides of the sheet appropriately.
- Check the numbers on page consequence.
- Proofread all the text and check all the format details before submitting the paper.
Studying general rules of formatting is crucial for students, researchers, and other specialists of the sphere. But every time you are also to look into the guidelines offered by your local headmen. The correct paperwork is pleasant to read. Moreover, it underlines the author's professionalism and preciseness.
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Detecting and Explaining Emotional Reactions in Personal Narrative
Turcan, Elsbeth
It is no longer any secret that people worldwide are struggling with their mental health, in terms of diagnostic disorders as well as non-diagnostic measures like perceived stress. Barriers to receiving professional mental healthcare are significant, and even in locations where the availability of such care is increasing, our infrastructures are not equipped to find people the support they need. Meanwhile, in a highly-connected digital world, many people turn to outlets like social media to express themselves and their struggles and interact with like-minded others. This setting---where human experts are overwhelmed and human patients are acutely in need---is one in which we believe artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) systems have great potential to do good. At the same time, we must acknowledge the limitations of our models and strive to deploy them responsibly alongside human experts, such that their logic and mistakes are transparent. We argue that models that make and explain their predictions in ways guided by domain-specific research will be more understandable to humans, who can benefit from the models' statistical knowledge but use their own judgment to mitigate the models' mistakes. In this thesis, we leverage domain expertise in the form of psychology research to develop models for two categories of emotional tasks: identifying emotional reactions in text and explaining the causes of emotional reactions. The first half of the thesis covers our work on detecting emotional reactions, where we focus on a particular, understudied type of emotional reaction: psychological distress. We present our original dataset, Dreaddit, gathered for this problem from the social media website Reddit, as well as some baseline analysis and benchmarking that shows psychological distress detection is a challenging problem. Drawing on literature that connects particular emotions to the experience of distress, we then develop several multitask models that incorporate basic emotion detection, and quantitatively change the way our distress models make their predictions to make them more readily understandable. Then, the second half of the thesis expands our scope to consider not only the emotional reaction being experienced, but also its cause. We treat this cause identification problem first as a span extraction problem in news headlines, where we employ multitask learning (jointly with basic emotion classification) and commonsense reasoning; and then as a free-form generation task in response to a long-form Reddit post, where we leverage the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and their distilled student models. Here, as well, multitask learning with basic emotion detection is beneficial to cause identification in both settings. Our contributions in this thesis are fourfold. First, we produce a dataset for psychological distress detection, as well as emotion-infused models that incorporate emotion detection for this task. Second, we present multitask and commonsense-infused models for joint emotion detection and emotion cause extraction, showing increased performance on both tasks. Third, we produce a dataset for the new problem of emotion-focused explanation, as well as characterization of the abilities of distilled generation models for this problem. Finally, we take an overarching approach to these problems inspired by psychology theory that incorporates expert knowledge into our models where possible, enhancing explainability and performance.
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Preface. The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide the phraseological 'nuts and bolts' of academic writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation. Other phrases are listed under the more general communicative functions of academic writing.
(e) An academic writing sample from one of your graduate courses, with Works Cited page Submit your thesis application to the Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Joel M. Dodson, Engleman D265C, [email protected] 2. Choice of Topic The thesis should be written on a topic related to the student's main area of academic interest, and
Academic writing is built upon three truths that aren't self-evident: - Writing is Thinking: While "writing" is traditionally understood as the expression of thought, we'll redefine "writing" as the thought process itself. Writing is not what you do with thought. Writing is thinking. - Writing is a Process: Both the ...
1. Thesis. Your thesis is the central claim in your essay—your main insight or idea about your source or topic. Your thesis should appear early in an academic essay, followed by a logically constructed argument that supports this central claim. A strong thesis is arguable, which means a thoughtful reader could disagree with it and therefore ...
Mark Stephan Felix and Ian Smith. A Practical Guide to Dissertation and Thesis Writing. By Mark Stephan Felix and Ian Smith. This book first published 2019. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from ...
Where to place your literature review in your thesis? Where to place your literature review in your thesis? The internal structure of the literature review. The internal structure of the literature review. The internal structure of the literature review. Structuring your literature review. Organising ideas in the body of your literature review ...
The thesis or dissertation is a text that is produced for assessment purposes, and the immediate audience is the examiner, or examiners. The chapter reviews the genre descriptions that have been made of some components of theses and dissertations: introductions, literature reviews, discussion sections, and conclusions.
An Introduction to Thesis Statements This handout is an introduction to writing effective thesis statements. Here you can read about what a thesis statement is, why they are important to English Academic Writing, why and when you need them, and what makes a good thesis statement "good." For a handout on the process of
Objective. The emphasis/content is placed on the arguments and information and not on the writer (personal narratives feature less in academic writing). Because academic writing is less personal, academic writing uses noun and noun phrases more than verbs and adverbs. Nouns: words (part of speech) used to identify people, places, and things.
Thesis statement The thesis is generally the narrowest part and last sentence of the introduction, and conveys your position, the essence of your argument or idea. See our handout on Writing a Thesis Statement for more. The roadmap Not all academic papers include a roadmap, but many do. Usually following the thesis, a roadmap is a
Part II: Conventions in academic writing 1. Style conventions: numbers and dates; capitals; print enhancements; abbreviations; typing and spelling 2. Tone conventions: formal, jargon and cliché-free, impersonal writing 3. Forming arguments: how to turn your information into a well-written essay or report 1. Style conventions 1.1 Numbers and dates
1 Purpose of Writing a Scientific‑Style Thesis 1 2 Introduction 2 2.1 Graduate research and academic writing 2 2.2 Definition of a thesis 2 2.3 How your thesis is examined 3 2.3.1 Ways your thesis may be read by examiners 3 2.3.2 How examiners evaluate the central research question 3
The document provides an overview of academic texts and language for students. It begins by defining academic texts as formal, objective, and specialized texts written by experts using discipline-specific vocabulary. It then discusses two common structures for academic writing - the three-part essay structure consisting of an introduction, body, and conclusion, and the IMRaD structure ...
ty.1.8 Spine of the Thesis (Appendix 2)The spine of the thesis shall contain:Full name of the author written in English with a maxi. e)Year of submissionAbbreviation. f the Universi. (USIM)1.9Type of PaperWhite A4 size paper (210mm x 297m. papers.Photocopies of the thesis shall be of similar.
Ethical guidelines have been added to this guide and should be taken into consideration when writing a thesis. The next members of staff of Centria University of Applied Sciences have participated in compiling and writing this guide: Hanna-Riina Aho, Staffan Borg, Annukka Kukkola, Jennie Elfving, Annika Mylläri, Vesa Nuorva, Marko Ovaskainen ...
riters need to control the use of grammar so that information is conveyed. Furthermore, the author must know the vocabulary in the discipline and then students as writers must be able to integrate all these competenc. es to produce a style that is suitable for the reader and certain context.Writing erro.
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Academic Writing in English Module 1, 2024-25 Course Information Instructor: Donya Mehrabi ... academic English in PDF format. The University of Manchester. Pears, R. & Shields, G. (2019). ... clearly stated thesis, supporting evidence, and appropriate in-text citations and
School of Distance Education Writing for Academic and Professional Success Page5 UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO ACADEMIC WRITING Points to Remember Writing skill expectations change as a student moves from school to college. Academic writing skill is needed for success in higher education. Only through constant and deliberate practice one can master academic writing.
EAP English for Academic Study_ Extended Writing and Research Skills Course Book ( PDFDrive ) - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides an introduction and overview to developing skills for extended writing and research. It covers topics such as using evidence to support ideas, sourcing information, developing a focus or thesis ...
• States the thesis statement of an academic text (CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-6) • Outlines reading texts in various disciplines (CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-8) Learning Objectives: At the end of the lessons, you will be able to: 1. State the thesis statements of an academic text. 2. Create an outline reading texts in various disciplines.
arguments and evidence that will follow. 3. Focuses your writing: A strong thesis statement helps you stay focused on your main argument and prevents you from straying off-topic. It serves as a reminder of the central point you are trying to make and ensures that your essay remains coherent and well-organized. Elements of a Strong Thesis Statement Now that we have a clear understanding of the ...
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General of Higher Education No. 152 / E / T / 2012 requires the obligation of. scientific publication for graduates of S1/S2/S3 (undergraduate, master and. doctoral degrees). Th us, th e process ...
The first half of the thesis covers our work on detecting emotional reactions, where we focus on a particular, understudied type of emotional reaction: psychological distress. We present our original dataset, Dreaddit, gathered for this problem from the social media website Reddit, as well as some baseline analysis and benchmarking that shows ...