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7C’s for effective essay writing

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1. Clear When writing the essay, be clear about your goal or message. What is your purpose in writing the subject of the essay? If you're not sure, then your audience won't be sure either. To be clear, try to limit the number of ideas in each sentence. Make sure that it's easy for your reader to understand your meaning. People shouldn't have to "read between the lines" and make assumptions on their own to understand what you're trying to say. 2. Concise When you're concise in your communication, you stick to the point and keep it brief. Your audience doesn't want to read six sentences when you could impart your message in three. You can often eliminate words like "for instance," "you see," "definitely," "kind of," "literally," "basically," or "I mean." 3. Concrete When your essay is concrete, then your audience has a clear picture of what you're telling the...

Research Methodology – Formulating Research Data

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Research Methodology – Formulating Research Data The methods section describes actions to be taken to investigate a research problem and the rationale for the application of specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information applied to understanding the problem, thereby, allowing the reader to critically evaluate a study’s overall validity and reliability. Methodology is the key aspect of any research. It usually serves as dissertation help among students to critically evaluate their raw data for the subject of the research. The methodology section of a research paper answers two main questions: How was the data collected or generated? And, how was it analyzed? The writing should be direct and precise and always written in the past tense. The introduction to your methodology section should begin by restating the research problem and underlying assumptions underpinning your study. This is followed by situating the methods you will use to...

The Discussion chapter of your dissertation

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Discussion chapter of your dissertation  The discussion will always connect to the introduction by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you reviewed, but it does not simply repeat or rearrange the introduction; the discussion should always explain how your study has moved the reader's understanding of the research problem forward from where you left them at the end of the introduction. Discussion chapter starts with a few sentences that summarize the most important results. The discussion section should be a brief essay in itself, answering the following questions and caveats: patterns of your research, objectives and observation, the relationships, trends and generalizations among the results, causes (mechanisms) underlying these patterns resulting predictions and implication of the present results for other unanswered questions in earth sciences, ecology, environmental policy, etc.. Multiple hypotheses: There are usually several po...