Writing your graduation thesis

Writing graduation thesis gives you the last chance to struggle with academic investigations if you do not go to any graduate school. Since your entrance of elementary school, you have studied parts of academic outcomes.

Imagine basic arithmetic. It was a part of researches about 5000 years ago. Any subjects you studied in schools were a part of researches in the past. Now that you are a university student, you get great chances to study the frontier of any fields. So, if you do not look at front line of a field, you lose the chance to see evermore. I do not want you to lose the chance.

So, all the students in my seminar are asked to read some technical articles published recently. This is because they are at the frontier of some fields. In particular, I recommend some papers published in top-ranked journals of fields. I know they are difficult to read. But, when you struggle with such articles during the last year of your university life, you will get valuable experiences you have never had before.

So don't hesitate to read the articles, and study some backgrounds to read them. Then, you will get valuable abilities and thinking ways to solve any difficulty.

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