A comprehensive guide to writing a dissertation for scientific preparatory classes, covering the structure, methodology, and requirements.
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[...] It responds to the following logic: I+1+2. Second paragraph It consists of two key moments. We start by developing the argument, explaining it and giving it volume. Then, we illustrate from the works on the program. If it is mandatory to quote the three works in each main part, it is acceptable to identify the developed argument in the sub-part in two works, provided that the work that is not cited in the first sub-part appears in the second. Example: I develop my first sub-part. [...]
[...] Thus, the dissertation examines the candidates' spirit of synthesis and argumentation. The subject is generally presented in the form of a citation, which candidates are supposed to analyze and develop in light of their reading of the works listed in the program. Having said that, the relationship between the candidate and the citation is not direct; it goes through the works. Therefore, nothing should appear in the reflection that does not accept illustration based on the works in the program. [...]
[...] The dissertation is a spirit and not a panoply of steps and procedures. In other words, the sum of the procedures inculcated by the writings Theoretical is not a guarantee and does not produce a good dissertation. How to proceed then? What one expects from a student of scientific preparatory classes is an argumentative dissertation and not an encyclopedic one. Thus, unnecessary developments and repetitions are to be dismissed from the proposed work. A clear written reflection is required, correctly written, which starts from the citation and is based on the works on the program to develop a truth, considered as more true compared to the truth brought by the subject citation subject to reflection. [...]
[...] The problématisation: a problem is not a question to which one responds in the development. It is rather a truth that is questioned, which awaits demonstration. It touches what is deepest in reflection, while starting from the thesis. f. The announcement of the plan: one announces the three main axes of the reflection, without developing or explaining them. For the form, it is preferable to propose the entire introduction in a single and same paragraph. 2. The development It is called thus inasmuch as it develops the ideas and arguments raised in the introduction and presented in the plan. [...]
[...] Identify the thesis; 2. Show the validity of the thesis, by possibly investing in the words of the citation and its structure; 3. Question the validity of the author's thesis to create this tension that legitimizes the problematization. d. The announcement of the works: being in the spirit of the expected dissertation from the scientific preparatory classes requires that one cites the works before the problem. Nevertheless, one can also announce them after the problem before the plan or after the plan altogether. [...]
