hello everyone and hope you're doing well I always say that writing a good introduction is the key to succeed in PhD entrance exam a good introduction is going to reflect the way you think is going to reflect the uh that you really know the answer and it's really going to leave a good impression on the one who's correcting your paper so that is really important and as usual I always try to show you the best way to answer that by providing practical examples so let's have a look today at what kind of question I have
and how we should answer this so let's let's start with the question I think there is a problem with the question a type or something so mind it but at least you can get the the the idea so to be accepted as a member as a member as members in the academic Community which the big entry would be academics demonstrate mons uh Mastery of standard form of appropriating someone else's work or ideas discuss this St of both or or in a coherent essay so if we have a look at this uh uh at this and
we'll find that we have to be accepted that's okay so it's going to be kind of an entry and there is a academic Community there is academics and that is you to demonstrate a master of standard forms we have appropriating someone else work IDs and you have the word discuss now let's start first with the word discuss means that this is the answer I always say when they tell you the word discuss means they they have given you the answer you just have to talk about it it's something that you really have to remember because
most of the time we said it's a question actually sometimes it's not a question this is an answer itself it just you are asked to discuss it now means what you have to talk about everything they have said so let's start and see what we are what we're supposed to talk about like the most important thing here it's about appropriating someone else work so we are talking about research methodology we are talking about the things about citation paraphrasing and using someone else ideas re and this is we have to stick or to adhere to certain
standards so as you can see this is my introduction here this is what I wrote and what I want to do here I just want to explain to you every word I have said so in the future when you are writing you would do the same thing thing so let me start in the beginning by talking about contextualizing my introduction often students when they study written expression they always are asked to start with the hook but often they said the hook is a some is a statement that is going to be to is go is
interesting and is going to be to kind of attract the reader but often they fail to say that the h itself sometimes especially in academic writing is there to contextualize what you are saying imagine I would say to my students imagine that you don't know the question and you haven't seen the question you just have the answer just reading the answer I must know what you are going to talk about so I started with research so research is built on the foundation of whats have discovered so once I read this I know that there it
has to do with the idea of research being built by what all what all researchers have done before so this is the first sentence and I have in fact kind of take it further and I talked about uh it is the culmination of existing knowledge might made by researchers Educators and students and students so this is what I said in the beginning and uh let me highlight this by saying that this is our our hook so this is let me find something a bit brighter than this okay so this is our hook this is what
we have started with just to show that we are talking about this existing knowledge body of knowledge okay uh I have talked about this in my YouTube life but I have in fact add another sentence I felt the need that there is a sentence to link between the the introductory sentence and I'm the thesis statement I I'm going to advance so I added another sentence is advancing in your research in Academia necessitates building upon this robust Foundation of Prior work okay so what I'm saying here is literally I'm trying to just say this to be
accepted so this to be accepted I have just link it here with this sentence so I said advancing new research so if you want to start a new research starting a new research means also you want to enter this acade academic word this academic community means you want to start a new research this is what what I am saying here so advancing new research and Academia is states building upon this robust Foundation of Prior work now where is the problem everything is now is good there's no problem so what is needed however this however is
us to contrast means that there is a problem there is something there is an issue it is contrasting so it so I want to say that you want to enter this community must be something so taking someone else IDs research writing or creative output requires adhering to certain guidelines now if we have a look at this sentence I could have said just however taking someone else ideas uh ideas requires adhering to certain guidelines so so if you can see I have added I I have added this the this taking someone else ideas research writing creative
output requires so what I have said here because the word don't forget that the word is discuss I said to appropriate someone else work so this is someone else's work here I wanted to clarify this work what kind of work are we talking about so we I'm talking about research writing and creative output so all these are under this uh are related to someone else work so this is what I meant so we said to be accepted that's the entry or to academics that would be here and if I'm talking about someone else work would
be here and of course let's change the color if we are talking about um where is it where is it is it appropriating that's appropriating that would be appropriating is going to be is going to be here taking someone else work as you can see the word discuss entails that I need to talk about every word in fact you see that here for example culmination of existent made by researchers Educators and students in fact that is um that's that is the member of academic community so academic Community these are the academic Community all right that's
researchers Educators and students those what I meant by by academic Community as you can see my introduction is reflecting every word I every word in the in the question or the statement I was provided now let's go to uh okay adhering to certain guidelines now this is the guideline here as you can say these are literally literally what I can say these guidelines were certain guidelines this is what call thesis statement I'm starting to provide my thesis statement because I'm going to to articul I'm going to talk about the answer here so a researcher must
what properly site resources paraphrase correctly s peration when necessary acknowledge collaborative effort follow ethical standards of their feel so all these are going to be related to standard forms so so this is the answer as you can see I was provided with the statement the statement it was deliberately it's not clear because I had the word discuss because I'm supposed to discuss things further so what I have in the discussion this is the thesis statements if you're looking for this is the answer now because uh the question is discuss means that I I have I
I am in Liberty to talk about several aspects on the topic and one of the aspects is what if I don't adhere to these what if I I'm not going to adhere to these um uh to this to this sorry to these kind of guidelines is going means that's failing to meet these standards violates academic integrity and can lead to Serious uh repercussion including plagurism legal issues reputational damage and loss of trust in both academic and professional context so as you can see I have few ideas I started talking about the academic Community I started
to talk about the guidelines I talked about what if you have failed to talk about these guidelines I all have talked about them in the in my introduction and let me kind of add something that is most important and I want you to remember that once I am talking at every word is kind of put there in with a purpose in mind let's say for example when I talked about when I talked about these kind of guidelines I started for example to site sources and paraphrase correctly if you failed this this is going to take
you to plagiarism and seeking permission is going to take to legal issues so I tried my best to put the repercussions in a way they mirror the same guidelines if if you don't put if you fail to do these guidelines this is what going to happen and of course because this is an introduction I could not kind of relate them directly because this is what I'm going to do in the development so this is what I do this is how I do it this is how I think when I write especially in an exams in
fact this is going to help you with any kind of academic writing you would do the same kind of thing and and of course this is going to be developed later in uh in sorry in the development phase then of course conclusion uh so thank you so much I hope you have enjoyed this video I shall see you in another videos please goodbye
