11 Mistakes to Be Avoided While Writing Your Thesis

Largely, the success of any thesis depends on the idea itself, as well as the author’s ability to translate this idea into peaceful, coherent writing. Even before you sit down to write your thesis, you should be confident that your idea is original and new enough to draw your readers’ attention. The most effective theses come from the depths of writers’ hearts and minds. They represent a combination of reasonable and emotional explorations, which reveal the most interesting aspects of some problem and provide readers with a reason to believe in unbelievable things. However, do not disregard the importance of quality thesis writing. Your idea alone, no matter how great it is, will never suffice to bring the best academic result. Mistakes were very much common that can be ignored by any student or supervisor and influence the overall thesis.

  • Spelling Mistakes at this level : Grammatical mistakes, at this level, are somehow stoppable if the sentence  has  some  meaning  but spelling  mistakes are not  good at  this  Poorly written words  with  spelling  mistakes  have a bad  impression on the  thesis  so  always  try  to make sure  spelling  mistakes  are  not  done  in the thesis.

 

  • Overall formatting: Certain parts of the thesis like ‘Discussion’ require perception. You don’t know at  what time  idea  will click  in your  mind  so  you always  make  sure  that  laptop is  at  shortest distance  from  you so that even  while  sleeping  some  thing  comes  in  your  mind  you can  immediately  get up and start typing  that  idea  .Most of the students don’t check the font they are writing with at a certain paragraph.

 

  • Font Recommended by the Institute: Students even  forget  to  follow  the  font  recommended by the  college or  by the  supervisor so be  careful and  utilize  the  single  font  only in complete  at the  same  time  take  care  of Font size, Font colour, Letter Spacing, Page Spacing, Page Numbers, Headings.

 

●       Citation Style recommended by the university: University mostly mentions about the Citation Style for the thesis. Students mostly avoid matching the citation style and just copy paste it from the source website. This is bad practice. Any knowledgeable professor can always tell that  you have  utilized the  same  citation style which is  mentioned by the  university  or  not .

  • Use of Images : Graphic content is  very  attractive  than  textual  content and  at  same  time image also  help to  show the  subject of your  thesis .but  while  writing  content  and  adding  images  you have  to  be  very  careful because  some  time  you can  end  up adding  images  which  is  not  related to your  topic  or  you use  stock  images  experts  don’t  support that .If you want  to  show  some  process  using diagram or   flowchart try to make  on diagram  don’t  download  it  from Google.

 

●       Try to Explain Images and Diagrams: Writing a few lines is not enough. make  sure  to  explain  about  image in paragraph doing  this  will help you to  use  related images  only means when  you explain images  in paragraph you always  utilize  the  related images  which  makes  some  sense  with the  topic  and even it  gives  better understanding  of  the  thesis.

 

●       Avoid Using Abbreviations frequently: Avoid using too many abbreviations while writing a thesis. Too much use of abbreviations will make it difficult to understand, make sure that you add an extra page of abbreviations in the thesis file.

  • Tables and flowcharts: They are a nice way to present your data: table and flowchart is the  best  way  to  present  your  data .Try to  have  separate pages  for  tables and  flowcharts . if there  is  more data  try to categorize  them and  use  separate pages  for  each category

●       Using  Full Page Paragraphs: The  poorest  error  which  can  be  committed  is  using  full page paragraphs. Paragraph should be as short as possible. If you want that readers should go through your content make sure to have short paragraphs and short sentences as well. It’s a very important rule for good quality readable content.

●       Quick checklist to review your mistakes: Before submitting the  thesis make  sure  to follow the  checklist and check for   guidelines provided by the Institution, again, Check Font Size, Colour and Style mentioned by institution also check the  page  margin a  letter spacing  make  sure  you cover  all  the  point  or  requirements  mentioned  by the  institution.

Make  sure  that  you take  care  of  these  above  mentioned  points. I am  damn sure that  students will certainly get  benefits  and this will help them  to  come  up with  quality  thesis writing .

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