posted on July 30th, 2008 ·
Finally, your dissertation research seems to come to its logical end. I do not know whether your dissertation research was a nightmare for you or a pleasant work to do. I know that the final step of your dissertation research can have two outcomes. It can be a nightmare and it can be a successful undertaking.
You have guessed correctly if now you are thinking about the oral defense of your project. This is what you have to be preparing for at this moment. The thing is that the dissertation defense will influence the final results of the whole matter. If you dissertation is perfect, but you are not able to present it in a correct and powerful way, it will not be approved.
This is why we have several tips that should be helpful.
- You should know all the members of the committee. It would be better if in the process of your defense you address each member. Try to meet with each member before the presentation so that you know their concerns.
- Needless to say that the preliminary preparation is vital. First, before the defense you have to define the key points of your work that should be presented. Second, you should think of the possible questions that the members will ask you after the presentation.
- It is also a good idea to practice at home several times. Ask your parents or spouse to act like the committee members. Let them make all the critical comments.
- Think about your appearance, which can play a significant role as well. Find clean and neat clothes, do not use too much perfume and do not wear too bright make-up.
So, the oral defense can be not less challenging and tricky than writing a dissertation itself.
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posted on July 16th, 2008 ·
When you need to prepare a dissertation paper, it is better to think about dissertation research! Any dissertation research serves as a good ground for any work. So, now your task to prepare interesting research! Do you know how to start this process? Maybe this article will help you a bit.
If you think that dissertation research is necessary only for writing a paper, then you are not really correct. Just imagine how many interesting things you may discover during this investigative process. Of course, you make a certain kind of work to present it in a written form. Thus, try to think that the importance of any dissertation research lies much deeper!
You work on one field. Analyze its rules and features. You get to know something you have not known yet. Such way of self-improvement has a lot of positive sides.
Moreover, in the process of dissertation research you develop your communicative skills. Even if it is a kind of chemical research and your work is connected to different test-tubes, some communication takes place.
It is possible to meet interesting people during dissertation research. Your task is not to be closed for communication! Do not be afraid to ask for something! Make your own propositions – develop your own ideas. It is one of the places, where you can try all this.
It is the time, when you can make mistakes and learn on them. It is the time, when you can get some bounces for your work. Even more, it is the time, when you can earn your first money (do not forget about fellowships).
So, know you know a lot about dissertation research importance. Use this knowledge to create interesting pieces of work!
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posted on July 10th, 2008 ·
I think all those who are interested in psychology and need to write their dissertations will like the topic of psychopaths. It is just incredible that the characteristics of psychopaths can be noticed in almost any person. That is why it is important to make profound dissertation research on this topic.
Do not be afraid while making your dissertation research, since you can realize that to a certain extent you are a psychopath as well. The thing is that there are several kinds of psychopaths. In fact, these are not some really mad people who make odd things. The symptoms are very similar to what we can see every day in thousands of people around us.
I can give you just one example that can inspire you on making the dissertation research. I am going to describe the characteristics of the asthenic type of the psychopaths.
So, these are people who can be characterized as very shy and impressive. From the early childhood timidity and indecision are their peculiar features. They are especially shy in the unfamiliar surroundings and circumstances. Very often they suffer from the inferiority complex. They cannot stand the sight of blood and heightened physical activities, roughness and tactlessness, but all their feelings are deeply hidden.
Can you imagine the number of people around you who are shy and sensitive, who do not like the rude people and sight of blood? Can you imagine that all of them are psychopaths? As for me, it is scary a bit, since you are living close to people with some psychological disorder.
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posted on June 30th, 2008 ·
Dissertation research is actually what your dissertation paper is based on. It is your foundation that should be properly made, otherwise, your final product will fail. That is why you should be aware of the steps necessary to take in order to conduct your dissertation research successfully.
• Identify the area you will be dealing with. Actually, this piece of task implies choosing a topic for your dissertation. Once you choose it, you will get an idea of what method is better to use;
• Choose a research method. What do you need for choosing the most applicable to your research area method? First of all, you should get a general picture of all existing methods of research. So, if still you do not, gather all necessary for it tutorials, work books, etc. and read them carefully. Thus, you will be able to choose the method of research you need to conduct your own independent dissertation research;
• Collect a number of sources. An analysis of the scientific sources is also a part of your dissertation research. Get to know different approaches to your dissertation topics, different opinions on the problem under consideration and identify the oppositions;
• Make all necessary preparations. If you need to interview anyone, make a list of questions, if you have to conduct an experiment, prepare everything you need for it;
• Conduct your research. Finally, once you have made all necessary preparations, you are ready to conduct your dissertation research. Now you already know what to do.
Remember, your best assistant in conducting your dissertation research is your supervisor.
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posted on June 26th, 2008 ·
Perhaps making dissertation research on medical issues can be rather tricky because of one major factor – it is hard to introduce something new on the well-studied issues. However, I am sure that if you make a profound investigation, you will find some interesting issues.
First, you can tell a lot of amazing facts from the history of any medical topic. Second, you should not forget that the medical science is constantly developing and various innovations are established very often.
Say, you want to make dissertation research on blood transfusion. Definitely for your dissertation research you will find a lot of current materials. Still, there are even more materials on the history of blood transfusion.
Have you heard, for instance such a case? In 1667 French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis made the first human blood transfusion. He transfused a small amount of the blood from a sheep into 15 year old boy. This experiment was successful and the boy recovered from his disease.
All the experiments with blood transfusion that were made later were not successful, and patients as well as the donors died. After that the successful blood transfusions were made at the end of the 19-th century when the blood types were discovered.
Anyway, the fact itself is more significant. Can you imagine that in 1667 people were trying to make such complicated experiments? And can you imagine what can be achieved with the level of development of the modern medical science?
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posted on June 3rd, 2008 ·
Continuing our series of the articles devoted to animals, we are going to talk about King Vulture. Of course, this is going to be our suggestion for your dissertation research. Thus, take a chance all those, who are writing their dissertation research in biology!
Below you will find some basic information about King Vulture, which can be used in the dissertation research.
King Vulture is a large bird from the Cathartidae family that lives mainly in the Central and South America. Vultures avoid living in the high-altitude areas, and commonly can be found in the tropical forests and savannahs. This bird was very popular in the Maya culture and frequently appeared in the local folklore and medicine.
King Vultures possess very notable and bright-colored appearance. They have a bald head and neck that are red, and its beak and the back part of the neck are orange. The body of the Vultures is black and white, covered with ruff feathers.
King vultures are not regarded to be social birds. It means they do not live in flocks. However, they live in pairs and sleep in the small groups at night. In the daytime they spend hours flying and looking for food.
King Vultures have an excellent smell and sight, which help them to find their food. It is considered that the vultures eat carrion only. However, they can also eat fish and snakes. By the way, the vultures never kill sick or dying animals to get the food, and you will never find the vultures on the village dumps.
So, these are the most notable facts about King Vulture, but you can find out much more in your dissertation research.
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posted on May 30th, 2008 ·
Maybe some of you are trying to make an important choice in their life – whether you need to write a dissertation or not. You are trying to imagine the whole process of making dissertation research. Definitely you realize that dissertation research will be one of the most challenging things in your life. Probably you know somebody, who has already been involved in dissertation research and you know his/her story.
At this moment you think that dissertation is a kind of miracle. You are absolutely not sure whether you will be able to write it. And here are the words of one famous personality for you: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”.
These are the words of Albert Einstein – a person, who achieved a lot of goals in his life. Try to understand these words.
As for me, he was trying to say the following. Everything in this life actually depends on you. You are able to do whatever you want, and if you want it, you will not do anything. If you are afraid of difficulties on your way, you will not achieve any significant goals in your life.
However, if you can laugh at the face of the difficulties, you can be another Einstein. If you have an aim in life, you will do everything to make this aim come true. Thus, do not be afraid of those hard moments of writing a dissertation. It is going to be challenging, but you can do it.
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posted on May 19th, 2008 ·
Dissertation research is usually conducted by students in order to draw certain conclusions about the problem they are considering in their dissertations. As a rule, dissertation research may be based on an interview, questionnaire, observations, experiment, accountings and other methods of investigation. Let us dwell upon the most frequently used kinds of dissertation research.
- Interview. Interviews can be conducted with experts or with the participants of certain cases. For example, if you are writing a dissertation about the Second World War, your dissertation research may be based on an interview with the participants, with the victims of fascism oppression, etc. The results of your interview should be stated in your dissertation, formatted in appropriate way, analyzed and certain conclusions should be withdrawn;
- Experiment. If you have any assumptions on a certain topic, you may conduct an experiment and make sure that your assumptions are right. The most important thing is that you should choose the kind of experiment that would be the only applicable to your topic, otherwise, it will fail. In order to choose a suitable kind of experiment to conduct, you may use different workbooks;
- Observations. Observation is more likely to be passive kind of dissertation research, still, sometimes you cannot avoid it. In relation to certain topics observation is the only suitable kind of research. The results of observations should also be stated in your paper and explained in your own words.
These are the most frequently used kinds of dissertation research. Still, before you use any of them, you should be sure that it can be applicable to your topic.
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posted on May 16th, 2008 ·
At a glance it seems that we live in a peaceful and democratic world. Well, perhaps peace and democracy are common for the United States or Europe or some other countries. However, the wars are still being waged, and there are places where people are got used to the constant sounds of the explosions and the bullets whistling.
The most common examples of the current wars are Iraq and Afghanistan, of course. These topics are widely discussed and investigated. Still, your dissertation research can also devoted to these issues. Particularly you can study this topic in your dissertation research from the Just War theory point of view.
Just War theory is a concept, which states that any military conflict should have to meet some religious, ethical, philosophic and political criteria. In the other words, this theory tries to explain some morality aspects of the use of armed force. And in your dissertation research you can also try to find the morality of starting two wars by the United States.
There are several criteria of the Just War theory, which give explanations of the reasons of going to war or conducting an armed conflict. Actually, the explanations are pretty simple and here are some of them.
The reason for war has to be just.
The states should start war only if all the other means of the peaceful resolution of the conflict have been used.
The states have to evaluate their chances for the success. They have to make sure that the benefits will be proportional to the possible harms.
Just War theory also states that the force should be applied only towards enemies or combatants. It is unjust to attack civilians or civilian objects.
And now, think whether the United States wage Just Wars according to the criteria mentioned above.
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posted on May 14th, 2008 ·
Some people may think that dissertation research is dull and have nothing to do with love affair. You can imagine dissertation research like sitting in the libraries stuck in the piles of books. Well, dissertation research can look like that. Still, I know several situations when people met their love while writing a dissertation.
The first case happened to my friend, who was writing a dissertation on the archeology and had to go in the archeological expedition. He did not have a strong desire to go in that expedition and potter in the ground searching for some pieces of ancient things.
Still, he had to go, since his dissertation would be incomplete without that trip. And there he met a wonderful girl who he fell in love with from the first sight. They had beautiful relations, but unfortunately everything finished when the expedition was over. They were living in different places and for some reasons could not continue their affair.
The second case happened to another friend of mine, who was also writing a dissertation. He met his girlfriend in the … library. This case has a happier ending, since they go out till today.
With these two examples I just want to say that your destiny may change dramatically very unexpectedly. You never know who you can meet and how your relations can develop further. Even if you do not meet your love, you can meet a good friend or just a nice person to talk to.
I also want to say that it is better to take all the events in your life as an optimist. Your positive mood will help to turn all your actions to a real success.
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