Friday, September 6, 2013

An overview on Psychology Dissertations

A psychology dissertation is not very different from a dissertation in any other sciences. It is aimed at providing new information, idea and theory pertaining to the research field. A psychology dissertation is well structured with minimum description and maximum clarity. The main aim of a psychology dissertation is to make the readers understand a complex idea. Precision is really important because in a psychology paper facts are to be supported by research especially from previous researches done. Writing a psychological thesis involves a great amount of discipline in forming a thesis, writing the actual purpose of the thesis, supporting conclusions of the thesis and defending them from various questions and challenges.

The key to psychology dissertation writing is to be able to read the sources critically. This is important for being informed about the subject matter on which you are writing. Also, it helps you to do strength and weakness analysis for your thesis proposal by evaluating the arguments, conclusions, methodologies in others thesis. The thesis can be review papers, theoretical or empirical thesis, but they all will include adopting or working on a writer’s point of view and then adding your observations to same. Therefore, understanding and considering in detail the evidence of the writer which he has used to prove his/her argument is important. It is important to analyze the statistics and check whether the conclusion is in-line with the evidence.

Different types of psychological research papers can be written like grant proposals, research articles, review articles. Students can either take up a research topic of their own or an existing research topic i.e. an empirical research where existing research by someone is reviewed. In case of an empirical research or Literature review as it is called, it is important to add one’s own inputs based on the research done apart from adding up to the existing research. Therefore, it is important that the reader should be able to understand how the context is integral to the thesis that is drafted. If there is doubt related to the strength and relation of the context to the thesis then the instructors should be consulted.

Another very important part of physiological research is that the evidence should be based always on the data available or collected. The evidence should never be based on the perception of the audience or the writer. Even if there are statements that the writer strongly believes they should not be written as facts unless there is a proper data to back it up, hence a statement should not come as surprise to the audience. Therefore, make sure that your psychological thesis should be based on new idea and theory and should support conclusion with evidence to be able to defend it against the questions and arguments.

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