ACADEMIC WORK
30 September 2010What is it?
Every student faces ever to writing an academic paper or research paper. Many professors prefer to evaluate their students through a job and a good part of the curriculum contemplate making a final career where students apply all the knowledge acquired through their training period college. Patterns and characteristics that we discuss here can also be applied to the theses, although its scope and size will, of course, much wider. It is, therefore, a fundamental practice in academic life.
This kind of writing has particular characteristics:
* Extension: partial work usually have a length of between 10 and 40 pages, research work limit or “theses” doctoral tend to have 100 (sometimes more), the doctoral thesis, of course, are much more extensive.
* Originality: a scholarly work should be the result of personal research on a particular topic, therefore:
or can not Bizarre only your knowledge, you must also document yourself by consulting various sources: books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
or you can not just copy other books or quality term paper, sources are only the basis for building a discussion or reach a personal conclusion.
or you must cite the sources you used in your research, and not present as their own the ideas of others.
* Clarity of expression and use of vocabulary own specialty.
“A. The work should be focused on the proposed theme and address the most important (or at least satisfactorily justify why some of these aspects are neglected.)
This is demonstrated:
- Knowledge and understanding of subject matter;
- Ability to guide the work towards a specific goal;
- Ability to make connections between theory and examples or cases.
B. Using primary and secondary sources. The work must be the result of the consultation of secondary sources (works by other authors) or primary (election data, statistics, speeches, laws, etc.).
You should be able to:
- Read critically, so as not to be accepted as unquestionable something just because it is released. There is never a single criterion or a single explanatory factor when analyzing a complex phenomenon
- Understand the content of what is being read and how it relates to the rest of the material consulted in the development of the work;
- Finding, using and interpreting data to serve as a support of the arguments and statements that are made throughout the paper.
C. The work must contain a reasoned argument. The different primary and secondary sources used to develop a work is not worth much by themselves. I buy to be used to develop an argument, a point of view, or to describe a subject from a systematic structure. This is not to take positions and defend a personal opinion, but a systematic analysis of various aspects of an issue. The terms used must be defined and the statements made must be supported by relevant data. As mentioned above, an academic may consider different objectives which must be mentioned in the introduction. Part of what is expected of a job and depend on the degree evaluation has been satisfactorily achieved the objective that the author of the paper is marked at the beginning. ”
Anduiza Perea, Eva, Méndez Lago, Mónica. Toolkit 1: preparation of work. Universidad de Murcia. Area of science policy and administration
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* What is?
An academic paper presents the results of an investigation, therefore, demonstrates the ability to research, reflect deeply on a topic, structuring, presentation and demonstration of interest in the subject matter. It is also an exercise prior to real scientific work and potentially publishable in this sense, its function, as in any scientific publication is to report on a particular subject.
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* How is it done?
The types and forms of academic work are varied, as each discipline uses particular methods, for example, legal work related to differ in their treatment of an engineering job.
In general, there are three different types:
* Monograph compilation, or “state of the matter”: the student, after choosing the topic, analyzes and writes a critical presentation of literature there is to it. It is important to have good level of understanding and “critical eye” to refer to different viewpoints and-out exposing the personal opinion after a thorough review.
* Research Monograph: it deals with a new or little-explored and carried out original research, for this we must know what has been said and add something new.
* Monograph analysis of experience: it is common in races involving a practice, for example, in medicine during the period of residence, or in professional practice. Experiences are analyzed, conclusions are drawn, are compared with like, etc…
Whatever the case, the process of developing an academic work includes several stages:
Planning
1. The choice of theme
2. The search for material
3. Delimitation of the subject
4. The thesis
5. Development Index
6. Reading and collecting materials
7. Organizing information
8. Review of the thesis
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Textualization
1.
Basic structure of work or monograph
2.
First draft
3.
Second Draft
4.
Documentation
5. Final review of work
Formal Aspects
1. Text layout
1. Set page
2. Formal scheme of work
2. Indexes
3. The final bibliography
4. References to sources
5. Quotations
6. Endnotes Page
7. Figures, tables and formulas
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