Thesis writing and academic support in Poland

After a class on patient education, you have two survey files for your nursing thesis. One is from before the class and the other from afterwards. If you have no way to link both answers from the same person, calculate the results for each time point separately. You can describe the difference between percentages, but the files cannot tell you whose answer changed. Start by checking who could complete each survey and whether the same code appears in both files. First step. Open the two original files and the survey forms. Check that the question, answer options and scoring key are the same. In a working summary, note how many participants answered at each time point and what makes it possible or impossible to link their answers. Teaching materials from Kielce University of Technology use a before-and-after measurement as an example of paired data when each person has two recorded values. In a school study, Agley and colleagues tested a way to match responses that had been planned before data collection. Even there, some forms could not be linked with confidence. You cannot apply those rules retrospectively if the information they rely on was never collected. Send both forms and explain the labels in the exports. An anonymised sample without patient data or information that could identify participants is sufficient. We can work out which comparisons are possible. In a fictional nursing thesis study, 40 students took part in a workshop on talking with a simulated patient. Before and immediately after the class, students received the same short question. They had to select the wording that asks a patient to explain an instruction in their own words. There were three options. “Is everything clear?”, “Do you have the instructions?” and “Could you tell me in your own words how you understand these instructions?” The last answer was correct at both time points. The class and results are fictional. In a Polish pilot study on communication with simulated patients, Bodys-Cupak and colleagues used questionnaires for the teacher, simulated patient and student, alongside checklists for the procedures performed. Our example counts answers...

You have finished a chapter when the publisher of a report you cited posts a correction. First, compare the correction notice with the passage or data you used. Mark the sentences and charts in your thesis that depend on the corrected information. Update the data and any conclusion you drew from them, then point your reader to the document that gives the correction. An erratum is a notice from a publisher about an error in a published document. It may cover a single row or several places. Get the report and the notice from the same official site. Check the title, year, page and scope of the change. The date on the notice tells you when the error was corrected. The period covered by the data is a separate detail. In a copy of your chapter, search for the report title, the relevant label from the table and the old figure. Check the results one by one. The same number elsewhere could describe a different group. Keep a separate note of what the source reports and what you calculate yourself. You are writing a public administration chapter on how primary schools are organised. Your draft paragraph and chart use Table 18 on page 55 of the 2024 report on the municipality of Malechowo. The report and its correction notice are real. The example sentences are invented. In the part covering the end of the 2023/2024 school year, the total row for primary schools gives 23 teachers and 22.329 full-time equivalents (FTEs). The same two figures appear in the row for the school in Lejkowo. The table lists three other primary schools. The four headcounts add up to 23 + 20 + 21 + 21 = 85 teachers. The correction notice of 25 June 2025 confirms 85 teachers and 85.418 FTEs in that row. It also corrects two cells for administrative and support staff. Use the two relevant columns when writing about teachers. Headcount counts people. Full-time equivalents express the amount of staffing in units of a full-time post. Before. At the end of the 2023/2024 school year, the four primary...

Not sure what to say to your supervisor at the first seminar? Find out how to choose a topic, define the aim and prepare a bachelor's or master's thesis plan. You will find an example chapter structure, a fill-in synopsis template, questions for your supervisor and a seven-day preparation plan. Example of a decision: two variants, different access to material If you cannot collect opinions, document analysis is not a substitute measurement of those opinions. It is a different concept: it requires agreeing on the topic, objective, and method of analysis. Bring both variants to the meeting, along with information about what material is actually available. You do not have a topic yet, and comparing several ideas still does not give you a direction? Check - proposals can be based on your interests, available sources, and realistic possibilities for collecting material. Would you like to discuss specific doubts and prepare for the meeting first, instead of commissioning a ready-made outline? Check and indicate the questions and materials needed to analyse them. I am studying: … My thesis is a bachelor’s / master’s / engineering thesis. I plan an empirical / literature-based / project-based / other study: … Proposed title: … Key concepts that I must define: … I want to focus on this issue because: … Its significance for my field of study or professional practice is: … The objective of the thesis is: … After its completion, I want to be able to answer the question: … The thesis concerns: … The analysed group or material: … Location and period: … I leave out of scope: … Main question: … Specific questions: … Data or sources needed for the answer: … Predicted relationship or answer: ... Justification in the literature: ... Method of verification: ... If you lack the basis for a hypothesis, note this issue for consultation. I intend to use: ... I will obtain access to the material through: ... Planned method of analysis: ... Limitations or necessary agreements: ... First chapter: ... Its purpose: ... Second chapter: ... Its purpose: ... Subsequent parts: ... Subchapters: ......

Looking for help with a bachelor's or master's thesis and want to know what you'll get and when? At StudentSupport, you can arrange help with drafting a thesis or chapter, editing an existing text, developing your methodology or analysing your results. We start with your topic, field of study and the material you have. That gives us a basis for agreeing the scope, quoting a price and confirming whether we can meet your deadline. Choosing a provider is hardest when time is already running short. You have a message from your thesis supervisor at your university in Poland in one window and an offer promising quality in the other. You still don't know whether anyone will look at your sources, understand the comment in the margin or contact you if the file is missing something important. These are the things to clear up before you start. I'm Wioletta Boćkowska, and I run StudentSupport. Tell me where you're stuck, what you already have and what you need now. I'll show you how to choose support for different situations and what a clearly agreed scope looks like. The four detailed examples are scenarios I've written for this guide. They aren't client stories or results from research done for clients. Choose StudentSupport if you want help with writing that takes your sources, structure and actual research material into account. You don't have to know which service to ask for straight away. Send a chapter with comments, or explain that you've got results but aren't sure how to turn them into a research section. The first step is to work out what the task involves. For a substantial piece of writing or selected chapters, see the service “”. If you've already written the text, “” may be a better fit. Working through a spreadsheet of responses is a different task again. Making that distinction helps you discuss the work you actually need before paying for an offer that promises to cover everything. In your first message, say whether you're working on a bachelor's thesis, a master's thesis or one particular section. Include your topic...

Writing the methodology for your research can be difficult because each element must follow from the previous one. Learn how to organise the aim, research questions, hypotheses, variables, indicators, method, technique and research instrument in a bachelor's or master's thesis. Have you already collected responses? See step-by-step survey result analysis, including how to calculate percentages and a sample description. It is worth preparing the analysis plan in advance so that each research question has its place in the write-up. If your quantitative study will compare groups or test associations, also plan how you will assess the hypotheses. As part of test selection and statistical analysis I will help link the research questions to the variable types and calculations needed. Qualitative research or a theoretical thesis will require a different approach to analysis. When investigating associations, specify which characteristic you want to explain and which one you will examine alongside it. The dependent variable is the characteristic whose variation you are analysing. The independent variable is the characteristic assumed as the explanatory factor or the basis for comparison (Apanowicz, 2005). For example, when studying the relationship between social media use and peer relationships, you might treat time spent using social media as the independent variable and the reported frequency of meetings with peers as the dependent variable. Specify how you will measure both. An association in questionnaire data alone does not show that one characteristic causes a change in the other. Practise the transition from concept to measurement using examples of variable operationalisation and indicators. Check whether the instrument item supplies the information needed for your research aim. Once the research design is established and you need only the instrument itself, see . Questionnaire items and response options should follow from the research questions and analysis plan, rather than take the place of developing them. Once you have selected the instrument, check how to describe its origins, structure and scoring so the methodology matches the version actually used in your study. Example of linking a research question, questionnaire item and analysis This illustrates one link between the question and the planned...

Do you have survey or interview results and do not know how to prepare the research chapter? Find out how to organise the data, calculate percentages, choose charts and write comments on the results. See concrete examples, principles for analysing open-ended responses and a checklist before sending the thesis to your supervisor. The workbook contains 30 fictional responses: 18 'Yes', 7 'No' and 5 'Hard to say'. Change the responses in the Data tab, then check the recalculated counts, percentages and chart in the Results tab. Missing data are shown separately. Percentages refer to valid responses to this question. After changing the data, adjust the comment on the results as well. You can find a sample description below. The following steps use the same fictitious frequencies as the previous example: 18 “yes” responses, 7 “no”, and 5 “hard to say”. Perform your own calculations on a copy of the data. The cell layout is an example to be reproduced independently, not a description of all form exports. Place data for one person in one row and the answer to one question in one column. Assume that responses to the question about difficulties with the bibliography are in cells B2:B31. Standardise the notation of the same answer, e.g. remove unnecessary spaces, while preserving the original export. Add a separate note about changes and the meaning of codes. A category number, e.g. 1 for “yes”, is a label, not a measure of the difficulty level. In C2, C3 and C4, enter the Polish example categories in order: tak (yes), nie (no), trudno powiedzieć (hard to say). In D2, enter =LICZ.JEŻELI($B$2:$B$31;C2) and copy the formula to D4. You will get 18, 7, and 5. This is the syntax for the Polish version of Excel; in the English version, the function is called COUNTIF, and the argument separator depends on settings. Check that every non-empty response belongs to one of these categories. Unknown entries must be explained rather than omitted without comment. For this question, the number of valid responses is the sum of the counts in three mutually exclusive categories. In D5, enter...