Month: July 2022

Developing Your Conference Paper with PhD Thesis

Conferences offer numerous benefits for academics, including the opportunity to present new research and interact with peers. They can also be an important tool for networking and professional advancement. However, many academics are uncertain about how to prepare for a conference presentation. This can be a particularly challenging concern for early-career researchers who may be less experienced in public speaking. In addition to the usual concerns associated with public speaking, conference presentations pose unique challenges due to the highly technical nature of most conference sessions. As such, it is important that you take the time to prepare yourself properly.

While there is no single “right” way to prepare for a conference presentation, there are a number of things you can do to minimize risk. First and foremost, it is important that you practice your presentation in advance. This not only helps you become comfortable speaking in front of an audience, but it also helps you identify any potential weak spots in your presentation that could lead to more awkward or uncomfortable moments during the actual event. Second, it is important to practice pacing yourself so that you do not run out of time before your presentation is over. Finally, it is essential that you practice going back and reworking your slides and talking points once you have finished your presentation. 

PhD Thesis Expert Support for Conference Paper Development

The first thing a researcher would have realized is that the conference paper is different from their research paper and the journal paper formats. They surely do share essential constituents but based on the conference requirements, there might be additional or custom requirements. Of course, your conference paper will be submitted prior to the conference and if it is accepted by the panel, you will be invited to present your paper. Our experts at PhD Thesis help you draft the perfect conference paper by providing you guidance on molding your research paper into the requisite format, language and length to completely modify it for the conference you have opted for. 

It is almost impossible to present entire thesis research and most conferences might require a substantial thesis chapter to be presented. Can I not just give my dissertation chapter as the conference paper then? It is not how that works, if it did then we would not have anything to help you with. Your research paper and conference paper are two different categories of writing and based on conference paper demands you might even find it difficult to fit all your chapter details into it and you actually don’t have to. Your research paper is a unique blend of qualitative or quantitative research and data analysis, literature reviews, and descriptions of methodology, but a conference paper is to be presented orally – i.e. you cannot divulge into such great detail even if you wanted to. This does not mean that it is easy, if anything, your task is now doubly difficult considering you have to filter and cherry pick the best of your research work, amend the language and add technical details to intrigue the academic audience. Your data presentation has to be shrewd and must be presented in compelling graphical detail, we take care of that too!

What help would I require as a researcher?

After years of experience helping researchers present their research in conferences and also helping many publish their research papers later on, we have developed the expertise to help researchers prepare conference papers and offer them quality support to present them as well. 

We help researchers analyze the conference requirements in detail and discern how and what of their paper fits the conference. This is followed by an expert development of the abstract for your paper which provides the organizers with a brief overview of your topic and a summary of your results. This is an important aspect of the conference paper development. We then proceed to help you develop the conference paper based on the conference paper format that has been demanded or otherwise follow standard format which include managing your expectation and that of the audience and organizers, this will involve optimizing of language, preparation of important sections like introduction, organizing data, prioritizing the best results and careful assortment of the references. The experts also take care of the citation style that is to be followed. 

We also help you with presenting your data such as through PowerPoint presentations and provide you with essential suggestions to better present your conference paper. 

Explaining your findings in a conference presentation can help you form a perceptual connection with your audience, receive feedback on your work, and identify future improvements. It may also help researchers establish a foundation for future research and peer-reviewed publications.

Evolution of the Problem Statement: From Arriving at it to Solidification

Research involves a number of activities. 

  • The first step is to identify a problem statement. This should be clear, concise, and accurate; it should also include the question that you want to answer.

  • The second step is to define the scope of your research. This means defining the limits of your study, including the population you are studying and any other relevant limits. For example, if you are conducting a survey, you need to make sure that you are only surveying people who live in your area.

  • The third step is to design the research. This involves planning out how you will collect data, analyze results, and write up your findings. It also involves choosing the appropriate method(s) for collecting data and deciding whether or not to use an experiment or observational study. These decisions can be based on a variety of factors, such as cost, time, amount of participants required for the study, feasibility, ethics considerations, etc.

  • The fourth step is to conduct the research. This involves actually collecting data and analyzing it once it has been collected. You will also need to write up your findings in a report or article that includes all relevant information.

A problem statement is the thesis’s introductory sentence that states the thesis’s overall purpose. It should be focused, concise, and unambiguous. While it can be a topic sentence (as in the case of a book review), it doesn’t have to be.

It should encapsulate the main argument or insight of your thesis and, ideally, be able to stand on its own. It should also capture the reader’s attention by opening with an interesting hook or strong statement of purpose.

The problem statement sets a clear goal for your research, which will guide your writing process and keep you focused on what matters most: presenting your findings in an engaging manner.

Arriving at the Problem

The foremost concern of any researcher’s quest is to find and delineate exactly what the researcher wants to solve and the questions he or she should answer to arrive at a solution. In other words, the research problem provides for a concern or a gap in the existing body of knowledge that brings out intriguing questions and is pertinent enough to be investigated in order to find a solution or address the problem, hence, it is the primary reason why you are pursuing the research. 

  • Cause and effect: The research problem should consist of a cause and an effect. The   statement could describe a loss or a missed opportunity and indicate a cause for the loss and the missed opportunity. The problem statement should describe the cause of the problem and the effect that has been caused. This means it should contextualize the reason why the problem exists in the first place and the researcher should opt for the reason that seems the most likely or compelling and how this particular cause affects the environment of study. The researcher should be aware of the various causes that might produce the same effect which is why an astute reference to research literature is necessary to focus on the right relationship between that cause and the effect. 

  • Guidelines: The problem statement selection should be guided by some essential aspects – the research problem should be something that the researcher is interested in and it should be possible to be efficiently and effectively pursued. The problem you have undertaken could have an earlier setting, in which case you should ensure that it either rectifies an issue in the earlier problem or brings out a new aspect of the problem unexplored hitherto. 

  • What it should do: The problem statement should be able to address a gap in knowledge and while addressing the gap should contribute to the existing body of knowledge. The problem statement should be able to provide scope for future research and can be of utility to policy formulation in your domain of study, this will pique interest in your research. The research problem should also ensure that data is available on the matter that it concerts and is promptly available or accessible. The problem should address ethical issues that could arise in its study and how your research will redress the concerns in pursuit of the problem. 

Evolving and solidifying of the problem

The statement of the problem briefly addresses the question – “What is the problem that the research will address”?”

How the researcher should evolve it – the problem statement should be molded into a concise sentence(s) that is a targeted and well-defined statement which can be easily understood and explored with understanding of its significance to what is being studied. It should practically provide the reader with a clear purpose if the research you are pursuing. 

  • Contextualize the problem: The problem should be formulated with a clear, concise and insightful background of the problem dealing with answers to questions like how the problem has been created (cause), what is the effect of the problem (effect) and has there been any practical approach to solving the problem earlier, if so detail the extent of its success and how it can be improved. 

  • The definition of the problem: The problem should effectively be described in a few lines, in a manner that the reader can understand the problem by reading the statement.
  • Relevance of the problem or why it should be addressed: This part of the problem statement should clarify the research into this problem is a necessary to the study domain of your research – the researcher should be aware that it is not necessary that the problem you are trying to research is ground-breaking or going to herald in an unfounded exploration into a topic in your field, what is more important is that it is practical, valid, feasible and relevant to your field of research. 

  • The problem statement should also be able to address the problem and should delve into an intro to methodology and how you plan to pursue the problem in your thesis. The research objectives are further elaborated from this which presents how you will achieve this.