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At times you may wonder how people are able to complete an impeccable and perfect thesis for their PhD. At time you may even feel envious of them, but the truth is, if they can do it, you can do it too. Writing a PhD thesis is a major task and an extremely dreaded one. People who are on the verge of starting their thesis, often hear of horror stories where people fail at their thesis writing and usually people get badly affected by these stories. There are some points that should be noted before starting a thesis so that it can be completed peacefully and successfully.

First and foremost, at all times, avoid story tellers! You do not want to start some work with a prejudice. Start with a clean slate and make your own story, do not live the story that belongs to someone else. Your views and ideas about a thesis may be completely different and your approach may be a more practical one.

Choose your topic wisely and stick to it! Once you know the topic of your study you may have a clearer idea about how you will go about studying it. Choosing a topic of your interest will help make the entire process of the study easier and more worthwhile.

Keep the style of explanation diverse. Include references, citations, illustrations, inferences, statistics, graphs and other such explanatory forms. This will keep the reader interested and it will show the amount of effort you have put in your study.

Keep the language and style of writing simple. This will not only help people in understanding your work better but it will also help you in avoiding petty mistakes.

And, have the work proofread, once you are done with the thesis work, make sure to have it checked by someone who belongs to your field of study. This helps in maintaining an accuracy in work.

Structuring and restructuring is an ongoing process throughout the writing session. Restructuring augments up the quality of work and gives a refined touch to the write-up. Editing and proofreading signifies a similar point of view here; that writer is in the finishing mood of his work. Both these formatting process is more from the reader’s perspective and less from the writer’s view. Let’s comprehend more on the stratagem of the two –

Editing: Initial know-how of restructuring lies in editing, where an editor is well aware and familiar with the types of mistakes a writer can commit. Following are some steps to underline the errors –

• Grammatical and punctuation issues – Use of incorrect words and punctuation signs can change the meaning of the sentence. Hence, an expert knowledge of grammar and related terms should be there to avoid these mistakes.
• Read sentences one by one – Reading breathlessly will never fulfill your purpose. Hence, read sentences one by one this will aid in finding mistakes and correcting it.
• Doesn’t murmur, read it aloud – Read as if you are narrating a story. Focus on your reading that whether it sounds, spells and signifies the same message you want to convey? Correct immediately, if stuck somewhere and then proceed with your reading.

Proofreading: Due to some failure to notice and carelessness, some errors, still persist in the write-ups. Thorough and final reading of the complete write-up and correcting the left out errors comes under proofreading –

• Reading again and again – Reading every sentence again and again can eliminate the overlooked errors. Search for the minor mistakes like spellings, paragraph division, font size and alignments of the sentence, these rectifications will complete your proofreading.

Furthermore, both editing and proofreading is an expert level process in which circling around the knowledge based analysis is compulsory.