hi guys so I'm in the middle of writing
my dissertation which is scary and in
order to procrastinate from writing said
dissertation I thought I would make a
video telling you some tips and tricks I
picked up along the way of how to write
a dissertation and this can be applied
to any sort of assignment really so I
hope you find this useful my first tip
is if you have control over the topic
make sure it's an interesting one
because you are going to be spending a
lot of time researching this and writing
about it so I'm writing my dissertation
on why people don't do yoga because
yoga's my hobby so I might as well make
it my work as well and I have found this
really interesting I haven't completely
got sick of it yet my boyfriend Adam
wrote his dissertation last year on
animal law and by the end of it he
absolutely hated that area of law so try
and make sure it's an interesting topic
if you do have a choice on it nextly
when you come to writing your
dissertation you'll be staring at this
blank Word document the ages just
thinking how how do I even start this so
my advice is to structure it first so
like bullet point what you want each
paragraph to say and then pad it out a
bit more and then you'll make sure
you're not going off track you're not
rambling and you've put in enough
content into the areas that you need to
talk about nextly try and get into a
routine with writing it I'm not the
best at this because I will do like
three days where I'm going into uni
early and writing all day and then I'm
getting loads done and then the rest of
the week I will just not write anything
so getting into a routine is really
important just to make sure you get it
done on time so as important as getting
into a routine is making sure that
you're getting enough sleep because
you're not going to write decent words
if you're half asleep although you might
be at your most productive in the
evening all nighters are not the way
forward they're unhealthy and you don't
make the most of your brain capacity
when you're half asleep so try and get
the majority of your stuff done during
the day and then if you are getting
close to your deadline and do need to do
a bit more then yeah maybe you could
get into the evening hours but while
you've still got plenty of time make
sure getting enough sleep so that your
writing good quality words nextly
snacking is okay when you're writing a
huge piece of work you're gonna want to
snack so now is not the time to be on a
diet you want to have the chocolate you
want to have the biscuits and crisps and
that's all right because you need some
brain fuel to keep you going my
dissertation snack has been mini eggs I
am obsessed with them they're a pound
and tesco at the moment so I literally
stock up on mini eggs and I'll go
through like two packets a day make sure
you back it up save a copy on your USB
save a copy on your laptop save a copy
on your uni computers send a copy to
your mum and sure you can save a copy to
just make sure you back it up because
it'd be the worst thing ever if you've
written that many words and you put so
much time and effort into it if it went
missing or got corrupted or something so
make sure you back it up make sure you
know how to format it because a lot of
courses have different specifications of
how they want you to format it like we
have to have it in a certain font at a
certain size with a certain line spacing
so make sure you know this before you
submit it and if you've not heard
anything about how to format it I check
just to make sure there's not some
specific rules so you've written it all
out it's perfectly structured you've got
plenty of sleep you've got into your
routine you formatted it correctly now
get someone else to read it because you
might read through it and not notice any
of your mistakes and think that it's
brilliant but as soon as a fresh pair of
eyes see it they will notice all the
grammatical errors all the spelling
mistakes all of the sentences that are
really long and don't make sense so ask
someone else really nicely to proofread
it and then you can share your snacks
with them now i need to get my
dissertation bound properly so it's like
an actual book so my advice is to get it
finished early so you can get it bound
early because a lot of places will have
cues and if lots of people have their
deadlines around the same time that you
will be longer so you want to make sure
you've got plenty of time for it to get
bound and then put you hand in and
finally you've been putting all this
work into researching and writing you've
got to give yourself something to look
forward to at the end like me and Adam
have just booked a holiday to Barcelona
and I'm so excited so that is my
motivation for keeping writing so that
is my 10 tips writing your dissertation
I hope you found these useful and now
I'm going to take my own advice and get
back to writing I'll see you in my next
video guys bye
