Thesis is an intellectual proposition. A thesis statement is the statement that begins a formal essay or argument, or that describes the central argument of an academic paper or proposition. A good tentative thesis will help you focus your search for information.

The Master's thesis is designed as practice for the PhD thesis. The essential requirement of a Master's thesis is that it literally demonstrate mastery: that you have fully understood the state of the art in your subfield and that you are capable of operating at that level. The hardest part is figuring out how to cut your problem down to a solvable size while keeping it big enough to be interesting. Choosing a topic is a gradual process, not a discrete event, and will continue up to the moment you declare the thesis finished. Actually solving the problem is often easy in comparison to figuring out what exactly it is.

Writing a thesis / dissertation takes much time, which is why it is recommended to organize your work straightforward from the very beginning. Here are some recommendations: - You should keep careful notes about your work. Even if some of the notions and ideas seem waste, you should reconsider them later and your notes will be helpful at this point. - As soon as you have printed a draft of a chapter you will understand that some changes are necessary. The second draft will be surely also changed. So after some time you will inevitably face the problem of sorting out which of the drafts is the latest one. The best solution is to print each draft of your dissertation / thesis on a different color paper.