On March 2, 2019, YSU Ijevan Branch hosted a seminar entitled “How to write a graduation paper”, conducted by the Head of Tourism Management and Culturology Department, PhD, Associate Professor G. Hovhannisyan.
The seminar was attended by YSUIB graduate students.
According to G. Hovhannisyan, the co-author of the “The basic principles of Scientific Work” methodological manual, the seminar aimed to introduce graduate students the methodology and methods of graduation works, rules of their formation and formulation, prepare students for the final works, present them the assessment scale during the graduation paper defense.
During the seminar, the peculiarities of scientific research, process orientation, discovery of the unknown, search for the new and use of special research methods were presented.
The graduation paper was defined as a research work, that is, graduation work is the confirmation of the student’s professional qualifications, theoretical and practical training. Bachelor’s graduation work is an independent, theoretical or practical work that reflects the skills acquired by the student in the field of specialization, raising issues related to the professional field, and the abilities of proposing solutions.
Some methodological approaches to the implementation of scientific research have been presented, that is to say, what is meant by scientific research, being scientifically objective, not ignoring the facts because of the difficulty of explaining them or showing practical application, because the essence of the new in science is not always visible to the researcher.
It was also noted that scientific research was not enough to justify a new scientific fact, it was important to give it a scientific explanation, to show its cognitive, theoretical or practical significance.
Mr. Hovhannisyan also made a reference to the language of science, the basis of which was the terminology-like words and phrases such as relevance, aspect, science, deduction, induction, scientific research, research purpose, problems, object, subject, category, method of research, methodology of scientific cognition , scientific fact, concept, judgment, theory, principle, conclusions etc.
The tutor put forward the structure of the survey, the general scheme of the research process:
- Justification of the relevance of the selected topic
- Definition of Research Purpose and Objectives
- Definition of subject and object of the research
- The Methodology of Research
- Description of the research process
- Formulation and evaluation of conclusions
Summarizing the issues and questions discussed during the seminar, Mr. Hovhannisyan made the following conclusions:
- When writing a research paper, the author must know the basic principles of conducting a scientific research
- After selecting and confirming the topic of the study, it is necessary to deal with collection of materials, sources and studies on the subject (the “ant” stage);
- then read the collected literature, separating the study materials (“bee” phase) during the course
At the end of the seminar, the participants received answers to their questions.
