Coursework Introduction - Example

"Oddly enough, the introduction should be written after all the work has been written in its entirety."

 The structure of writing an introduction to any coursework is generally recognized and is as follows:

1. The relevance of the chosen research topic - here you should briefly, easily describe, why your chosen research topic is important and significant. The relevance can take 0.5-1 page.

2. The subject of research follows from the relevance and topic of writing a term paper and concretizes the type of relationships and processes that will be explored. The subject of the study is described in one sentence and answers the question: What will be explored?

Example. Theme: “Improving the competitiveness of Google”. The subject of the research will have the following wording: “Organizational and economic relations to improve the competitiveness of the corporation.”

3. The object of the study answers the question: What object or subject of relations or processes will be investigated? In our example, the object of study will have the following formulation: this is Google.

4. Based on the subject and object of research coursework, formulated the purpose of writing a term paper. For economic and managerial disciplines, the purpose of the research is usually associated with the development and justification of measures, ways, ways to increase the effectiveness of the field of study fixed in the subject of the study on the example of a specific research object. We formulate the purpose of the study for our example: Development of the main directions of improving the competitiveness of Google.

5. The goal of the study necessarily includes the solution of several interrelated tasks that are easiest to form, based on the wording of the chapters of the work. The classical structure of the work is a structure consisting of three chapters: the first is theoretical, the second is analytical, and the third is project.

For our example, based on this rule, we single out three tasks:

explore the theoretical foundations of improving the competitiveness of Google;
analysis of the level of competitiveness of Google;
development of the main directions of improving the competitiveness of Google.

6. No course work, like any other research work, is written “from the student’s head”, therefore the next structural section of the work is the theoretical and methodological foundations of the research. In this section, one, two paragraphs describe the main scientists involved in the development of the chosen topic of coursework.

7. It is possible to analyze and develop measures to achieve the goal of a study using certain research methods which include general scientific methods such as methods of analysis and synthesis, abstraction, analogies, etc. In addition, private scientific methods are also used: for our example, one can cite methods of economic and mathematical modeling, the index method, statistical methods, the balance method, etc.

8. Finally, to write a term paper, to reflect its relevance, to formulate the subject, object, purpose and objectives of the study, theoretical and methodological foundations, research methods, a certain information base of the research is necessary. The information base of the research usually includes legislative and regulatory acts, scientific and special literature, materials of periodicals on the chosen research topic, as well as internal reporting and documents of the research object.

9. At the end of the introduction, if desired, the structure of the work can be briefly described. In our case, this description will be as follows.

The structure of the work consists of introduction, three logically interrelated chapters, conclusion, list of references and applications. 

How to write a term paper?

"Almost every student sooner or later is faced with the task of writing a term paper, but, unfortunately, not every teacher takes the time to give a detailed account of the stages of its implementation."

 That is why many students after a couple of unsuccessful attempts to pass at least part of the course, for example, an introduction, theoretical or practical part, give up. Meanwhile, if you know a couple of simple rules about how to write a coursework, the implementation of this task will not cause significant difficulties.

 So, coursework is a scientific work, that is, research on a specific topic. The goal is to consolidate the material studied in a particular subject and to apply the knowledge gained in practice.

 As a rule, in any teaching department there is a training manual in which specific instructions are given on the coursework, so you should carefully read its content and correctly build the coursework, write an introduction, basic and practical part, conclusion, list of references that you have used. But before embarking on the work, you need to study the literature on the topic, choose the most important, make a plan and discuss it with the supervisor. As soon as he approves it, you should start writing the introduction and the theoretical part. In the introduction it is very important to formulate the goals and objectives of the research, indicate the subject and object, and also justify the relevance of the work. Given the seeming complexity, you should simply answer the question why you are studying this topic, whether there have been studies in this area before, whether there are controversial issues among scientists, etc. Making out the theoretical part, we should not forget about quotes and links to sources that must be specified in the list of references.

 Having written the introduction and the theoretical part, you can be a little happy - after all, 50% of the task is completed. But the hardest thing to come. The main difficulty is the practical part:

     if you become a future engineer of industrial and civil construction, you will need to complete a drawing using AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, etc .;
     if you study in the mathematics department, you will have to work with programs such as Mathcad, Maple, etc .;
     future accountants will need to perform an analysis of the firm’s financial performance with specific numbers;
     law students should consider legal problems or analyze court practice, etc.

 Have you written the practical part? Is it about the same size as the first chapter, does it have several paragraphs, just like the first chapter? Now you can give your teacher coursework to check. After adjusting the work, you can edit the introduction and go to the debriefing, which must be reflected in the conclusion. In this part, you need to answer the question - have you achieved your goals and objectives?

 When the content is ready, you should check the coursework several times for grammatical and stylistic errors, check the observance of fonts, paragraphs, alignment by width, design of the list of references.

 Congratulations! Your term paper is ready. The teacher checked it and approved for protection. We hope our tips will help you write a great term paper and get a good grade. We wish you success!