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Suggestion for What to Focus Your Undergraduate Dissertation On
It is a typical situation when a student has to submit an undergraduate dissertation but has no idea what topic to select, how to select it, and how to make sure that the topic of his/her undergraduate dissertation will be relevant and hypotheses will be testable.
Basically, there are three main steps the student should take to make things with the topic for his/her undergraduate dissertation clearer:
- Consult the professor and define the subject area for the dissertation;
- Narrow the area down to a specific topic and consult the professor if this topic fits the task;
- Narrow the topic further down, consult the professor once again, and start writing.
Some examples will surely make it clearer for you. Imagine, for instance, that you take the course of literature and have to write your undergraduate dissertation in this rather wide subject area. Naturally, no undergraduate dissertation will cover thousands of years of literature history, hundreds of styles and techniques…unless, of course, you make a-thousand-page long encyclopedia out of your undergraduate dissertation.
Of course, you need to narrow this subject area down to a specific topic. For instance, you can write an undergraduate dissertation on a period of literary history or make it a stylistic-related undergraduate dissertation. However, your dissertation will not cover such a topic anyway, and you need to define, for example, an aspect of a certain historical period or an aspect of stylistic coloring of a certain literary movement.
Thus, you go through all three stages and become able to find a good topic for your undergraduate dissertation. And most importantly, do not forget to consult your professor on every single question you have!
