Counseling Education

Five Tips for Getting a Good Grade on Your Thesis

When I first started working on my thesis I knew I needed to make a strong impression because though my grades were good, I needed very high scores in order to enter the extremely competitive niche I had chosen as my future career.

Your thesis will account for a significant chunk of your grade (usually 30% or more) so be sure to make it good and as polished as possible. Below are a few tips to help you do just that:

1. Choose Wisely

Be very careful about the topic you choose for your thesis. There were two major mistakes that many of my colleagues made. Some of them wanted to make a big impression so they chose very difficult topics for their papers while others wanted to make sure they could cover their subject perfectly so they chose a subject that was too simple. Needless to say none of them were able to make the best possible impression when defending their papers.

2. Count on Your Professor for Advice

I was very careful about which professor would be my chair professor because I knew I would have to rely a lot on his experience and on his willingness to help me understand what I needed to do. So I did not choose the most respected professor in the department, but rather the one that I respected the most. He was still quite young so he had not garnered as much fame as some other professors, but that meant he had a lot of time to work with me.

3. Focus on Your Specific Subject

One of the biggest mistakes I almost made was to include too much information in my thesis because I was reading so much material, and everything seemed fascinating. Luckily I had weekly meetings with my professor and after letting me spread my efforts on multiple topics for a couple of weeks, he brought me in and pointed out just how little I had managed to get done and that no one aside from the two of us could still discern exactly what the main theme of my paper really was.

4. Get Your Inspiration from Multiple Sources

Personally I am very happy with the professor I chose because from the very first day, he gave me three different authors to read and encouraged me to base my paper equally on each one of their works. However I know that several of my colleagues were fascinated by one author or another and ended up with a paper that almost seemed to copy what that one person had written. So make sure that you use more than one source or work, and definitely more than one author for your paper.

5. Rely Only on Self-Motivation

The last tip I will give you is the first tip that I thought of and it is that I would not rely on anyone but myself to motivate me to write. And I am very happy I did that because, at the end of my dissertation preparation, my professor told me that what he had appreciated most during our collaboration was that

I had not forced him to push me to work because he would not have done it anyway and I would have ended with a poorly written paper.

Leo Preston felt she could do more than leave in the corporate world and she started her own business in article writing and blogging. This helped her grow more in the first year and feel more alive than she had ever felt so she has thrown all her energy in this endeavor. Now she continues developing her own business while teaching a literary class at this home town's university. She has been working as a writer for thesis writing since September of 2010 and is always looking to broaden her area of expertise.