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Oh, how students love to procrastinate! But with a diploma, this number will not work. First, do not believe the stories that you can write a dissertation on the night before the defense on your own. If only because at first the dissertation, and already in finished or almost finished form, must be demonstrated at the pre-defense, but if you are lucky with the university and you do not have pre-defense, then you can find out what should a thesis statement include or ask for help from professional writers . They will not do all the work for you, they will not learn the text for protection, but they will help you a lot with the material.
The second reason is the improvements that any sane supervisor will definitely require from you. Thirdly, in most faculties, the thesis includes a practical (experimental) part. And if the theory can be written in a few days, then practice usually takes a lot of time.
When should you start writing your thesis? How long does it take to write a dissertation?
Think about a diploma from a young age
The ideal strategy for writing a thesis is a marathon. This is not an exam that you can sprint to prepare for overnight, and not an essay that a student lancer will write you in three hours. A whole semester is officially allocated for writing a diploma - the final one. But it is best to think about the diploma already in the third year and even in the second. Worst case, fourth. Why?
Because you need to decide on a supervisor and a vector of scientific interests even before the fifth year. Even if the topic of the thesis is clearly formulated in the fifth year (it can even change in the process of work), in general it should fit into the direction that you devoted your coursework to in the 3rd - 4th year of study.
Ideally, these term papers become the basis or even separate chapters for the diploma. This allows you to write it faster and better.
The fate of a student whose supervisor is changed in the fifth year as a result of force majeure is unenviable. Usually all the "normal" teachers have already been sorted out by this time. Why this moment needs to be given very serious attention, we explained in detail in the article “How to choose a supervisor”.
What's your plan, comrade?
It is very important to calculate the time it will take to write a diploma, and add to it at least a month for force majeure.
Writing a thesis consists of the following stages:
How to allocate time for writing a dissertation?
The optimal distribution of time when writing a thesis implies that:
- by the beginning of the second semester in the 5th year, you have already collected the basic materials for the theoretical part;
- by March-April, you have already done practical research;
- by the end of April, they wrote a rough draft of their thesis;
- May is devoted to minor improvements and design.
In practice, of course, a significant part of students only wakes up by April ... And then it spoils the nerves of themselves and their supervisor, and sometimes even a student lancer who has taken up the urgent writing of a thesis.
Please note that in the spring the cost of writing diplomas to order increases. Theoretically, an experienced student lancer can write a dissertation in a week, especially on a familiar topic and without serious practical research. But…
First, for the urgency will make an extra charge of 50 - 100%. Secondly, quality may suffer (so if you have a force majeure, choose an experienced student lancer with a high reputation who can really write diplomas in a week). Thirdly, all the same, lay time for revision. No matter how wonderful the diploma is, the supervisor will find something to complain about: he has such a job.
But if you order a thesis from a student lancer in the fall or at least in winter, then the price will be moderate, and the diploma will be written with feeling, plainly, and arrangement.