Writing Tips: How to Write a Literature Review

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Posted on January 31, 2007

Literature reviews are not taken seriously sometimes. However, they are an important part of any dissertation writing, and can spoil overall impression if badly written. To prevent you from failing, we give you these literature review writing tips. They are based on a thorough examination of possible online tips and supplemented with our professional dissertation writing advice.

1. Writing a Literature Review. Before Getting Started

Definition:

Literature review shows your thorough investigations and acquaintance with sources related to your topic.
 
 
General guidelines:

• a literature review is not a simple listing, but a critical discussion;
• it has to compare and contrast opinions;
• it has to relate your study to previous studies;
• it has to show gaps in researches;
• choose a research question;
• compile a list of the main areas and questions involved;
• identify sources;
• read and take detailed notes;
• group literature into categories to make it easier to track;

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Essay Editing: Top 10 Mistakes in Essay That Make Your Teacher Grumpy

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Posted on January 31, 2007

It seems like everything is perfect – you wrote an essay that is five-paragraph long, has a certain structure, kinda answers a stated question, and yet your teacher looks like a popular dwarf from The Snow White movie when returning it to you. In order to be successful, you not only have to follow writing guidelines, but you need to understand your teacher’s thoughts, too. Try to think objectively.
 
Your teacher has checked and graded thousands of essays in his career, and certainly developed a list of typical mistakes that he marks automatically. Do you know what the best Christmas present is for your teacher? A great, mistakes-free essay paper. Go for it!

Essay Editing Typical Mistakes Include:

• Misspelled words. MS Word processor usually narrows this problem to the minimum by using the favorite red underlining that tells you are mistacen… I mean, mistaken. In handwritten texts this error occurs more often. Be nice to your teachers. Proofread, please.
• Editorial issues. Here’s something that even MS Word processor can not track. Words that sound alike but differ in writing. You wrote “weather” instead of “whether”, and still complain about mean and prejudiced teachers? Well, pay attention next time.
• Passive voice. When writing these tips, we examined about a dozen web-sites with teachers’ feedback on essays. This mistake is among top three. More people make it more often, than any other error in the writing. “To be” verbs are the weakest verbs in the English language. This statement doesn’t mean that you have to completely eliminate passive voice in essay writing. Just narrow it down.
• Contractions. Don’t yo’u us’e contractions in essay writing. They frustrate teachers. Contractions are not appropriate; therefore, use “do not” instead of “don’t”.

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Scheduling Your Dissertation Writing

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Posted on January 31, 2007

After five-paragraph essays at school and all kinds of research works that are sometimes completed with a big effort, but still completed in relevantly short periods of time, dissertation writing can be full of surprises. It’s not a one-day work. It’s not even a one-year work, actually. In a situation like this, some people fail when trying to come up with a timetable. Don’t let the amount of time for preparations confuse you. Trust us, two years pass like one day. So, don’t save dissertation writing for last. Start working now. Here are some tips on how to schedule your work.

1. How to Schedule Dissertation Writing. Basic Preparations

General guidelines:

• Take a realistic view on the amount of job that your dissertation writing is going to take. Two, three, ten years?
• Draw a weekly schedule and distribute work evenly. Think of dissertation writing and the next stage, dissertation editing, as your primary job to do. Spend a minimum of five days per week on writing a dissertation (at least half an hour every day).
• Schedule other activities around your dissertation work.
• Plan carefully and keep open lines of communication with the important people in your life.
• Plan writing in stages.
• Organize your workspace. Everything you may need for writing has to be by your hand. Give a separate corner for your dissertation, and place all literature, notes, photocopies, and files there.

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How to Write a Research Paper: Writing Tips Part II

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Posted on January 29, 2007

1. How to Write a Research Paper. The Abstract

Definition:
An abstract is a summary of work done.
 
General guidelines:

• a summary is written last; by the time you are done with your research paper, you are able to state briefly what it is about;
• brevity doesn’t mean abbreviations; therefore, use complete sentences to make an abstract readable;
• summarize by stating the purpose, description of your experiment, results and conclusions;
• keep an abstract to a single paragraph;
• an abstract should stand on its own, and not refer to any other part of the paper.

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How to Write a Research Paper: Writing Tips Part I

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Posted on January 29, 2007

When it comes to writing a research paper, a lot of details have to be taken into consideration. To help you keep all these details in mind, and to prevent you from incomplete information, we decided to provide you with research paper writing guidelines that are reliable and complete. Our writers contributed to it by sharing their professional writing tips.

1. How to Write a Research Paper. Getting Started

Definition:

A research paper gives a thorough study of a specific topic, and reports information about this studying.
 
 
General guidelines:

• any research paper begins with the sphere of your interests – dig into it, and you can come up with a good idea for writing;
• state a research question – why, or how it happened;
• try to identify either novel trends in a society, or the causes of a particular event;
• use primary sources for your research paper writing;
• now make an argument that will pull together all the obtained information;
• take your audience into consideration;

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