When you write essays, theses, dissertations, and any academic paper, you focus on your ideas about a theme. However, the ones expressed by other people before influence your own ideas. Ideas that are completely new are very rare since human knowledge has developed in a cumulative way and the input information needed to create new one comes from people who have studied or reflected on them before us. Such influence can be expressed in an implicit or explicit way. The former is perceived sub...

Writing a thesis is a complex task that takes time and effort. The more solid its foundations are, the better the outcome is. That means you should pay very close attention to the elements from which the whole research study derives: theme, problem, purpose and research questions. In this article, we will talk about the first two of them.

When you think of developing a thesis, you usually begin by stating the theme you want to study. A research theme is in fact the general area that intere...