Find a number of do’s and don’ts for this subject when writing a thesis:
- Structure
- Style
- Literature review
- Practical research
- Thesis management
Do’s in managing your thesis
- Plan per component: preparation (10%), data collection (30%), writing (40%), review (20%)
- Plan well ahead of your deadlines, you can always get flu
- Agree between deadlines that you have to keep
- Supervisor: create an agenda and a report for each meeting
- Supervisor: send very specific questions in a list about the mail
- Accompany: tell him or her which grade you prefer
- Once you started with pleasure on your subject. Think back to that!
- Plan well, then you stay motivated
- Answer the question: what does the world / my organization / science have in my research?
Dont’s in managing your thesis
- Send a whole “unfinished” thesis with “am I on the right track?”
- Do not prepare for conversations with your supervisor
- Lose motivation for your thesis
- Do not keep a log of discussions with your supervisor
- Calculate the number of pages per day (5 per day) and aim at them or plan too tightly
