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Tuesday 26 February 2013

Making Dissertations Samples for High Schools – Part 3



Dissertations Sample: After-critique Form
  1. Revised chapters. It’s where students are shown the commented chapters, and then the revised version of those commented chapters. It’s important that samples show the various facets of dissertation critique and revisions – as these two help concretise the students’ dissertation piece.
Knowing these procedures are important – as it can contribute to the assessment of the tool’s effectiveness in preparing high school students for the next-level dissertation work.
After some independent perusing, students should undergo some Q & A session with their teachers, and perhaps, provide some writing exercises. The latter helps students to obtain a clearer picture for their future dissertation pieces. The experience of this preparation guarantees that high school graduates won’t precede making a dissertation battle unequipped at worse.   

Monday 25 February 2013

Making Dissertations Samples for High Schools – Part 2



Now, it comes of interest as how dissertation samples are designed for high school students. Below is a list of sample-components shared by sample-designers (e.g., tutors, teachers, and field specialists):

Dissertations Sample: Starting Form
  1. Pick an interesting field. “Interesting” implicates those fields that appeal to these young academics, like sports, the workplace, music industry, et cetera. It is important to choose under the “interesting” label because teachers/facilitators don’t want to give the impression that dissertation is boring, or uninteresting.
  1. The research question. The sample has to exude the materiality of the specific research question out of the chosen (prior) field.
  1. The proposal. A dissertation proposal sample achieves the actualisation of a planned piece of work.     

Saturday 23 February 2013

Making Dissertations Samples for High Schools – Part 1


High school institutions spend a lot of time and resources to prepare students for the challenges ahead. Whether these challenges sit in the preceding higher education, or in their career lives, such prepping is considered to be part of this institution’s mission.
An example of a particular area of prepping up is dissertation. And the oft-used preparatory tool for this is the so-called dissertation samples. Samples or models had been around the education scene for quite a long time.
These preparation aims to cover a number of advance academic endeavour – from writing to research, analysis to defence. Apart from these point-specific areas, it also facilitates the exploration of emotional road-trips inherent in such academic undertaking.