It was that moment in my thesis writing when I had received a terrible feedback and was asked to overhaul the entire document. It was time to take a break from the screen and go back to basics. I printed out my document and went home. Then I took a break that evening, because it is one of the most underrated but essential things to get everything into perspective.
The next day I proceeded to lay out the pages of my thesis chapter-wise on the table. Then I took a blank paper and pad. I thought, “How will I explain my work to my family members in my native language?” So I decided to write down my work in my native language in the form of an algorithm and then rearrange my thesis.
I answered the following questions to do so –
- What is the issue?
- Where is it encountered?
- Is it very common?
- What makes it so very important?
- What are the steps that people have already taken to solve it?
- Why have they not been that effective?
- What is it that I did to solve the issue?
- How did I do it?
- What were the exact steps that I followed?
- What did I observe?
- How were these observations different or similar to what the literature states?
- What did I learn?
- What will I do in future?
Put the answers to these questions in the form of a flowchart.
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