Stop Playing with Your Dissertations: A Quick Guide to Dissertation Writing

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It is not really that easy to get an AS level. To be qualified to take the course you have been dreaming for about 14 years or so can be very frustrating if things will not happen as planned. All you may want to do  is to compose music and play them in public - no more, no less. Your grammar is poor but you are blessed with the wisdom of arranging words to make it pleasing to the ears of the listeners. Does this mean that you cannot take a degree? Extended project qualification is the answer!

As pointed out in Wikipedia,  in writing for Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), "the students' choice of topic is free, although they must show that it is academically useful, either related to their current course of study, or their future career. It takes the form of either a dissertation (5,000 words being a common guideline[4][5]) or a number of other forms: a musical or dramatical composition, report or artefact, backed up with paperwork."  Any topic can certainly be a topic to be compressed inside your dissertation.



The next question that may come to mind, "is it guaranteed  that all who choose to write dissertation will pass?" Obviously not. Just like the pressure that one may be suffered by the students taking up qualification exam for AS level, dissertation writing really needs to be scholarly and professional.  Working on dissertation is just like proving yourself that you can really make it until graduation.

As early as now, think of what really fits into you. Get some topics that you may interest in. Do not just go for random topics that you may have hard time working on them. Before working on your dissertation, please take into consideration the following points:

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1. Choosing the subject. Selection of the topic that you really care about really matters in dissertation writing. Nothing will ever pop-up into your mind if you work with topics that are out of your own world. Create topics that you have some thoughts of. Something that you love that is academically useful as well.
2. Planning the total work. Time management is very important also. Make sure you know all the parts of the dissertation and put some timeframe on each of them. Make sure that the time that you have set is realistic. Do not frustrate oneself.
3. Selecting research methods and techniques. Review the research methods and look for the strategies that really suits you.
4. Your writing style. Evaluate your writing style. Make sure that your work is grammatically correct and academically acceptable.
5. Presentation. Once you have checked your writing style after choosing  your topic. Make sure that your presentation is well done. Check on the sequence of your dissertation to make sure that they come in proper order.

Sources:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/Studyresources/Essays/sta-writingdissertation.aspx
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Your-Dissertation-bestselling-first-class/dp/185703662X
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/10242551/Stop-playing-politics-with-teenagers-exams.html