revista elaborada por alumnos para ayudar a elaborar una tesis de manera adecuada.

1. PRINCIPLES
O
F
W
RITING
FO
R
A
THESIS

2. The study of this research project will analyze the main factors that
contribute to elaborate a thesis and the ways it should be written in the correct
structure. Writing for a thesis is always a hard challenge for students from col-
lege to begin. The intention of this magazine is to awake the desire of a student
to start writing a thesis for their university.
WHAT IS A THESIS 1
THESIS STRUCTURE 4
RULES AND WRITING STYLES 7
ORDER WRITING 10
HOW TO DO RESEARCH 13
TIPS FOR FAST THESIS WRITING 18
HOW TO USE THE APA FORMAT 21
HOW TO REGISTER A THESIS 30
REFERENCIAS 33

3. V
HWHAT IS
A THESIS
By Roberto Osorio
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4. Athesis affirms what you have faith
in and what you intend to ascertain. A
decent thesis will help you concentrate your
research for information. You must read a
lot before start writing and before reading
you have to identify the main subject of your
thesis project.
In a publication by the university of
politéctica de morelos “thesis” Gómez y
and Álvares (N.D.) commented that in this
part the student makes a formal
presentation of their work stating the
purpose of the thesis topic, the reasons that
motivated him to develop and fundamentals
that support it. In this regard it is
recommended to start with the exposure of
the general objective of the thesis topic,
continue the approach of the hypothesis, if
any, further outlining the methodology used
in the proof of this hypothesis. Finally, we
conclude with a synthesized rapporteur,
what the reader will find in the thesis,
chapter by chapter, so that the reader can
be motivated to read it.
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5. ATRIBUTES OF A GOOD THESIS
It should be considerable for a debate, in that
way people could give their point of view and also
give feedback when the thesis has not been com-
pleted. The scientific project should be a project that
separate reality from fiction. According with Hamilton
College (2008) a university thesis could also be in-
volved with some of the subjects and their weak-
BRAINSTORMING A THESIS
First of all the creator should
choose a topic, preferable a topic
with major rage of studies for the in-
vestigation. Example (difficulties of
pronunciation, toefl, how to become a
good teacher etc.)
The creator of this project
should ask himself interesting ques-
tions about the topic that he already
chose. Effects of the topic, coherent
answers and the ways this project will
help in the future with all the investi-
gation process.
After choosing the topic and
having a deep investigation about the
main factors that contribute the diffi-
culties of it, revise the questions and
start making points for the introduc-
tion of the investigation project.
A thesis is one of the most im-
portant investigation projects of a
university student, as students can
use this project with several purposes,
one of the main reasons why a stu-
dent should finish his thesis is be-
cause it could be used to get your
college degree without having any
trouble with anything else.
Writing a thesis or start writing
a thesis give us more skills than we
can imagine, while writing your col-
lege thesis, your writing skills exceed
the lowest level of writing to a highest
writing level, at the same time once
you finish it you could also use it to
give continuity to your master’s the-
sis.
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6. THESIS
STRUCTURE
By Georgina Pancardo
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7. A
ccording to the research report presented by the Faculty of Psychology,
UNAM (2007) the difference in the pattern of institutional thesis are two:
the recipient and the way it will be used. The first is the signature or
institution whether public or private investigator is helping you with the
research project. The second relates to the investigation may take action to solve
social problems. Their components are described below.
INTRODUCTION
The best way to start writing
a good introduction is until you
know what the body of the paper
says. Once you have a clear idea
about what you are going to be
writing in you need to separate all
those ideas and start making the
most interesting pints for the
introduction.
Make sure that the first
written paragraphs have the main
information about the topic, the
introduction should be written in an
easy format so that the reader won’t
have problems by understanding the
main points and at the same time
you get the readers attraction to
your investigation project.
Bill hans (2012) says that the
main points when writing a thesis
should be the next shown ideas.
1. A statement of the goal of the
paper: why the study was
undertaken, or why the paper was
written. Do not repeat the abstract.
2. S u f f i c i e n t b a c k g r o u n d
information to allow the reader to
understand the context and
significance of the question you are
trying to address.
3. Proper acknowledgement of the
previous work on which you are
building. Sufficient references such
that a reader could, by going to the
library, achieve a sophisticated
understanding of the context and
significance of the question.
4. The introduction should be
focused on the thesis question
(s). All cited work should be directly
relevant to the goals of the
thesis. This is not a place to
summarize everything you have ever
read on a subject.
5. Explain the scope of your work,
what will and will not be included.
6. A verbal "road map" or verbal
"table of contents" guiding the
reader to what lies ahead.
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8. BACKGROUND
The background sets
the general idea of a thesis. It
should always make a good im-
pression and convince every sin-
gle reader why the topic is im-
portant and why it should be tak-
en into consideration.
When writing the back-
ground you need to consider that the
most relevant information is on it,
what is should be include in a back-
ground is everything related to the
history, nature and previous research
made by other investigators or other
students from different universities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents is not
more that organizing the points that
you are going to investigate in your
thesis and the way they will be written
throughout the project. You can take
as an example the table of contents
above of this project.
METODOLOGY
What belongs in the
"methodology" section of a thesis?
1. Information to allow the reader to
assess the believability of your results.
2. Information needed by another re-
searcher to replicate your experiment.
3. Description of your materials, pro-
cedure, theory.
4. Calculations, technique, proce-
dure, equipment, and calibration
plots.
5. Limitations, assumptions, and
range of validity.
Description of your analytical meth-
ods, including reference to any spe-
cialized statistical software.
Bill Hans (2012).
REFERENCES
References are the
final step of a thesis, when
writing all references most of
the universities ask students to
write them in the APA format
which will be shown throughout
this investigation project.
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9. R ULES AND
WRTITING
STYLES
By Elvia Prado
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10. S tyles and Standards for the Preparation of thesis project are
aimed at university students taking courses related to
scientific research, considering the difficulties of the stu-
dents to apply basic rules of writing as well as in making references.
One of the basics aspects of difficulty for students in courses related to
thesis research, is the use of basic standards for the preparation and use of
references.
Canoabo (2008)
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF WRITING STYLES
 White paper and letter size, no scratches or perforations.
 Source: Times New Roman, Arial or Courier New, size 12 font.
 The ink must be black
 Text alignment (justified).
 Spacing 1.5 and double spacing between paragraphs.
 Indentation: at the beginning of each paragraph five spaces left.
 Headings and subheadings in capital letters or "Type of tittle", ignoring the
 underline without dot.
 The margins used are: Left and above: 4cm. right and bottom 3cm.
QUOTE
It is the true and accurate transcription, word by word, a paragraph or parts of
a text. These can be short, if the appointment is less than 40 words, setting the
standard that should be included in the paragraph, enclosed in double quotes (""),
followed by the surname of the author (s), year of publication and number of pages of
the document from which it was copied.
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11. PARAPHRASE OR IDEOLOGICAL DATING
It is when the researcher interprets the author's ideas and exposes his own
words, being necessary to specify the name of the author interpreted and published.
QUOTE FROM A SINGLE AUTHOR
The author's surname and year of publication of the document may be quot-
ed before or after the content. If the author is part of the narrative, then the name is
mentioned the year of publication in parentheses; if on the not appear in the narra-
tive, the name and the year are placed in parentheses; If on the year mentioned in
the speech, no parentheses are used.
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12. ORDER WRITING
By Eduardo Castillo
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13. Athesis is never written
in the same order as it
is presented in. This
article give us some of the ideas we
can take into consideration when writ-
ing a university thesis. There are a lot
of methods used when redacting a
thesis, but according to kastens
(2007) this is one of the most useful
methods applied to university thesis.
 Make sure to organize your pa-
per in a logical argument before
start writing.
 Make your figures to exemplify
your argument (think skimming)
 The main segments are: back-
ground to the argument (intro);
describing the all information
that is going to be used in the
argument, never forget making
p o i n t s a b o u t t h e m
(observations), connecting the
points regarding the info
(analysis), summing up
(conclusions).
 Outline the main elements: sec-
tions, and subsections.
 Begin writing, choosing options
in the following hierarchy - par-
agraphs, sentences, and words.
1. Write up a preliminary version of
the background section first. This will
serve as the basis for the introduction
in your final paper.
2. As you collect data, write up the
methods section. It is much easier to
do this right after you have collected
the data. Be sure to include a de-
scription of the research equipment
and relevant calibration plots.
3. When you have some data, start
making plots and tables of the data.
These will help you to visualize the
data and to see gaps in your data
collection. If time permits, you should
go back and fill in the gaps. You are
finished when you have a set of plots
that show a definite trend (or lack of a
trend). Be sure to make adequate sta-
tistical tests of your results.
4. Once you have a complete set of
plots and statistical tests, arrange the
plots and tables in a logical order.
Write figure captions for the plots and
tables. As much as possible, the cap-
tions should stand alone in explaining
the plots and tables. Many scientists
read only the abstract, figures, figure
captions, tables, table captions, and
conclusions of a paper. Be sure that
your figures, tables and captions are
well labeled and well documented.
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14. 5. Once your plots and tables are
complete, write the results section.
Writing this section requires extreme
discipline. You must describe your
results, but you must NOT interpret
them. (If good ideas occur to you at
this time, save them at the bottom of
the page for the discussion section.)
Be factual and orderly in this section,
but try not to be too dry.
6. Once you have written the results
section, you can move on to the dis-
cussion section. This is usually fun to
write, because now you can talk
about your ideas about the data. If
you can come up with a good car-
toon/schematic showing your ideas,
do so. Many papers are cited in the
literature because they have a good
cartoon that subsequent authors
would like to use or modify.
7. In writing the discussion session,
be sure to adequately discuss the
work of other authors who collected
data on the same or related scientific
questions. Be sure to discuss how
their work is relevant to your work. If
there were flaws in their methodolo-
gy, this is the place to discuss it.
8. After you have discussed the da-
ta, you can write the conclusions
section. In this section, you take the
ideas that were mentioned in the dis-
cussion section and try to come to
some closure. If some hypothesis can
be ruled out as a result of your work,
say so. If more work is needed for a
definitive answer, say that.
9. The final section in the paper is a
recommendation section. This is re-
ally the end of the conclusion section
in a scientific paper. Make recom-
mendations for further research or
policy actions in this section. If you
can make predictions about what will
be found if X is true, then do so. You
will get credit from later researchers
for this.
10. After you have finished the rec-
ommendation section, look back at
your original introduction. Your intro-
duction should set the stage for the
conclusions of the paper by laying
out the ideas that you will test in the
paper. Now that you know where the
paper is leading, you will probably
need to rewrite the introduction.
11.You must write your abstract last.
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15. How to make a
research
By Ruby Dueñas
Conducting a research is crucial process for both, students and
professionals, in which writing is the major research process,
however to get to this level you need to follow certain methodology
which will make this process an easy and organized way to its end,
whether for a class assignment, or even a published article
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16. H
ere are 8 basic
steps you will
follow to
performing a
research.
1. Determine your research
topic/question
First of all you need to
determine your research topic/
question. In some classes, students
are told to find a topic; this means the
research process is for the purpose of
learning. In other cases, the topic can
be arising from a sense of curiosity,
and interest over a particular problem
that you feel needed to be research.
2. Write a research question
Once you already has been
determined the focus of research we
proceed to write the research
question. This is a question that will
guide you in your reading. It will turn
into a thesis statement later. This
question reminds you of what you
want to find and read what you are
considering like an idea or opinion.
The research questions should write
in a way that will be represented in
your hypothesis. It should be
the basis in which your hypothesis
stands.
This question will guide you in
your reading. It will turn into a
thesis statement later.
RESEARCH QUESTION
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17. Determine your scope and timeline in advance how much total time you have for this work.
. Determine your scope and timeline
Another important aspect while
an investigation is conducted is to
determine your scope and time line of
your research because any academic
research should lead to a written
report or research paper. For that
reason we need to determine in
advance how much total time you
have for this work.
A work schedule in which you
finding and reading sources,
collecting notes from sources,
preparing a rough draft, revising the
draft and incorporating source
material, and preparing a final draft in
the required format( MLA,APA, etc.).
The research scope means
knowing how much of your subject
you will deal with. You must limit your
reading and study to a particular
focused aspect of the subject. This
requires thinking about what
specifically you want to cover. Your
research scope should not be too
broad in that it covered more than the
required areas, and not too narrow in
that it does not meet the substantial
requirement of a research scope.
4. Find useful sources
At this time you are into the
heart of the research, in other words
you might be read a certain number
and type of resource as books,
magazines or journals, reference
books, newspapers, letters,
interviews, etc. You might need an
academic, school or university library
that contains information and sources
not generally or easily available on the
internet. Always you need to focus on
your research question and find
information that illuminates it,
explains, describes, analyzes,
contrasts, or gives expert opinion and
viewpoints on it, because at this
moment you are formed your own
judgment, based on what you read
from your sources.
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18. . Find a method to take notes on
what you read
After some time of reading you
need to take notes either copying,
highlighting, or cutting / pasting; these
notes should contain the most im-
portant points to support your re-
search. Also be sure to know where
the note came from in your source.
You must know the exact location:
author, title, magazine,
book, internet page
URL, date, volume
number, etc. and
then organize
your notes into
groups accord-
ing to their con-
tent, for later write
them into the sec-
tions of your paper.
6. Write your tentative thesis.
This is a single statement of
your viewpoint on your research
question. This is what you will analyze
in your paper. Your source material
must help you establish your thesis on
that topic. If necessary after reading a
lot, you might change your question to
fit what you are actually finding or
you might change your opinion after
doing your reading.
7. Begin writing your first
draft
Now begin writing your first draft;
this is when you start writing what you
have learned, what you feel about your
topic and thesis. First you need to
give the background and set the con-
text for the topic, then
start explaining, de-
scribing, give rea-
sons, state caus-
es or effects,
or analyzing
parts of the
topic.
Also at this time
begin to add quotes,
paraphrases, or summar-
ies into your writing. These will help
you to explain what you are saying, but
be sure to enter sourced materials in
the correct way.
The first draft is
when you start
writing what you
have learned,
what you feel
about your topic
and thesis.
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19. . Prepare the final draft.
After the first draft you need
to revise it. Revising, means
checking the content of your paper,
and making sure the thesis is
developed, the content matches
your thesis, there is enough material,
it is in a logical order, nothing off
topic is included, and the writing
is natural and understandable.
And finally editing, checking
the writing details such as paragraph
breaks, sentence structure,
punctuation, spelling, and citation
formats.
At this time you've done the
research and you are ready to
prepare your final draft with all
corrections made previously. Strictly
follow the format you are using,
checking your style and don’t forget
includes: title page, page setup and
numeration, text citations, reference
list, inclusion of visuals, sections
and titles, etc.
With these steps you can
develop a Research. These steps are
general steps. It is possible that in
your study center, school, college,
etc., including others or some
separate them in different phases.
And remember a research is NOT
simply a collection of quotes; It is
your point of view of a topic
supported by the work of others.
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20. T
IPS FOR FAST THESIS
WRTITING
By Ivon Muñós
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21. M
ost of the students find
difficult to start a thesis,
one of the main factors
are that students does
not like to read or write. To give the
students a high potential to start read-
ing or writing, the thesis advisor
should start applying some motivation
methods to them so they can get that
hunger of begin a research project.
Hyaton (2010) published in an acade-
my article ten useful tips for a fast
thesis writing that will be described
below.
DECIDE WHEN TO START
You have to decide when you are
going to write. The first thing to do is
to set a date when you will stop doing
research and start writing in earnest,
leave yourself at least 11 months to
finish off any last things you need to
do. This deadline has to be absolute.
Anything not done by then, doesn’t get
done.
DECIDE WHEN TO STOP
Your need to give yourself a
deadline time to finish your thesis, let’
s pretend that you take more than 11
months to finish it, ask yourself what
were the reasons you couldn’t finish it.
Never think that is impossible to finish
or that is too hard to be true, try to
motivate yourself to make it easier.
SET MINI-DEADLINES FOR
EACH CHAPTER
You should already have a rough
idea of what your content will be in
terms of chapter titles and so on, so
set a deadline for completion of each
chapter.
SET EASY TARGETS FOR EACH
DAY
Aim to do 500 words every day. It
might not seem like much, but it
means that you can achieve and beat
your target every single day. It soon
adds up, and if 500 words is your
minimum, the average will actually be
higher.
CREATE A COMFORTABLE,
DISTRACTION FREE
ENVIRONMENT
If you have a choice, work from
home. There will be fewer distractions
than at school or work. Ideally, work at
a computer with no internet connec-
tion, but if this isn’t possible, switch
off all automatic email notifications
and chat programs. That green dot
next to your name is an invitation to
friends to come and distract you.
IVON REYNA MUÑÓS IVON REYNA MUÑÓS
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22. ONLY TURN ON THE COMPUTER
WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
YOU’RE GOING TO WORK ON
CHECK EMAIL ONLY AFTER
YOU’VE DONE AT LEAST 2 HOURS
WORK
WORK FOR 25 MINUTES AT A
TIME
Use a timer, work intensively for
25 minutes on one thing, then take a
5 minute break. During those five
minutes, get away from the
computer, make a cup of tea,
stretch your legs, whatever you want
to do, but don’t check the internet.
After four 25-minute bursts, take a
longer break.
GET AWAY FROM THE
COMPUTER WHEN YOU AREN’T
WORKING
Most people find this a
challenge, but try to create a binary
state. You are either working, or not.
Being in some sort of half-way in
between state is no use to anyone.
If you can do this, you’ll end up
spending less time at the computer,
but getting far more done.
LOOK AFTER YOURSELF
Be nice to yourself; eat well,
sleep well, and socialise. This is far
easier if you follow the tips above,
because you’ll have the time to
spare for things you actually enjoy
doing.
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23. H ow to use the
APA format.
By Ilse Méndez
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24. Before we go of how use the APA format it’s necessary to kwon, what is
APA?
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a formatting style developed
in 1929 by the American Psychological Association. This format is used for
publications, academic papers, essays and books in different fields, especially
the social sciences. If any scientist, psychiatrist, anthropologist or other
professional who works in the sciences wants to publish research or write a book
about their subject, they would learn and use APA style to do so.
In others worlds the APA Style consists of rules or guidelines that would codify
the many components of scientific writing to increase the ease of reading
comprehension and also to ensure clear and consistent presentation of written
material.
The Basics of APA Style
First of all we divided the APA Style in three parts so it will more easy to follow
Margins and Font
Spacing
Alignment and Indention
Running head and pagination
Headings
Major Paper Sections
Manuscript
Structure
Reference
Citation
Citing Authors
Citing Books
Citing Periodicals
Citing Internet Sources
Articles
Magazines
Newspapers
Book
Web Sites
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25. Manuscript Structure
In writing an academic paper in
APA format, you have to use an 8.5 x
11 inch paper and make sure that it
has a 1 inch margin on all sides.
Also, the contents of your paper
must be typed using Times New
Roman with a font size of 12 and
should always be double-spaced.
In every page, the title of your pa-
per must be included in the left part
of the header and the page number
in Arabic numeral on the right. If your
title has more than 50 characters,
make a shorter version of it and use
that shorter title for your header.
Margins and Font
Use one inch margin on all sides of
every page, and Times New Roman
with 12-point font size.
Spacing
All parts of the paper should be
double spaced. Leave one space
after a comma, colon, or semi-colon
and two spaces after a period.
Alignment and Indention
Align the text to the left and indent
the first line of every paragraph by
5-7 spaces.
Running head and pagination
 The running head or the short
version of the title appears on the
first line of every page, flushed left
and written in uppercase letters. It
should be less than 50 characters in
length including punctuations and
spacing.
 In line with the running head is
page number, which is located one
inch from the right edge of the paper.
The title page, abstract, body, refer-
ences, footnotes, and appendices
begin on a new page.
Headings
 The heading for each part (e.g.
Title Page, Abstract, References,
Footnotes, Appendix or Appendices)
is aligned at the center in the first
line below the running head.
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26. Major Paper Sections
Sections required for every APA
paper: title page, abstract, body,
reference list, footnotes and
appendices.
Title page
The first part of your paper is
obviously the title page. On this
page, you must type the title of your
paper, your name, ID
number, course title,
school, and name of the
professor.
A s p r e v i o u s l y
mentioned, every page
must have a shorter
version of the title and a
page number. The only
difference with the other
pages is that for the title
page, you would need
to type “Running head”
before the short title.
Elements: Running head, Title,
Author byline, Institutional affiliation,
Author note.
Format:
 The title page begins at page
one.
 Ideally, the title should not
exceed 12 words.
 All elements are written in
lowercase and uppercase letters,
and are aligned at the center of the
page.
 The title comes first and next
lines contain the author byline,
institutional affiliation and author
note.
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27. Abstract
After making the title page, the
next page should contain the Ab-
stract. This is a summary of your
whole paper and must only be com-
posed of 150-250 words. Have the
word “Abstract” centered on the
page and the write-up itself should
not be indented.
Content: One paragraph summary of
the paper with 150 to 250 words.
Format:
 The body of the
abstract is in block
format (no indention).
 Numbers are generally
written in digits except
those at the beginning of
a sentence.
Body
The body of a paper is
usually composed of an
Introduction, Review of
Related Literature, Method, Results,
Discussion, and Conclusion and
Recommendations. However, these
may vary depending on the
requirement of the work..
Format:
 The heading of each subsection
(e.g. Method, Results, Discussion)
of the body is written in bold,
aligned at the center, and with
uppercase and lowercase letters.
 Subsequent headings and
subheadings follow specific
formatting rules for each level.
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28. Reference List
In general, the sources listed in the
reference list are composed of the
last name of the author/s with the first
letter of their first name, year of
publication, title that is italicized, and
place of publication.
Footnotes
Additional information to support the
some parts of the manuscript.
Format:
 Each footnote is identified by a
number in superscript that appears in
the text.
The first line of each footnote is
indented by 5-7 spaces.
Appendices
Complex data or information that is
too cumbersome to include in the
body of the paper.
Format:
 For more than one appendix, the
heading “Appendix” should be
accompanied by capital letters A, B,
C and so forth (e.g. Appendix A,
Appendix B, Appendix C).
Indent the first line by 5-7 spaces.
References
Your reference list is a summary of all the publications that you referred to in your
paper. It begins a new page after your main body, and is titled 'References' at the
top of the page. This list is alphabetical, by the author's last name.
References include the author's last name and first name separated by a comma.
Then, the year of the publication is put in parenthesis, followed by a period. Next,
the title of the work is written, without any kind of special punctuation or type except
a period at the end. Then, the title of the publication the work appeared in is listed
in italics, followed by a comma, an issue number or edition number in italics,
another comma, and the page numbers. The reference ends with a period.
For example:
McCrae, R. R. (1993). Moderated analyses of longitudinal personality stability.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 577-585.
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29. When there is not an author it
should begin with the title of the work.
If the title is a book, list the title first in
italics. The volume number and page
numbers should follow article titles,
while book titles should be followed by
the location and publisher name.
For example:
A student guide to APA format. (1997).
Psychology Weekly, 8, 13-27.
and
The ultimate APA format guidebook.
(2006). Hartford, CT: Student Press
Magazine Articles:
The structure for an article
appearing in a magazine is similar to
that of a journal article. However, the
publication date should also include
the month and day of publication.
For example:
James, S. A. (2001, June 7). Magazine
articles in APA format. Newsweek, 20,
48-52.
Newspaper Articles:
References for newspaper articles
follow the basic structure, but use the
initials p. or pp. to denote page
numbers.
For example:
Tensky, J. A. (2004, January 5). How
to cite newspaper articles. The New
York Times, pp. 4D, 5D.
Online Sources:
Online journal articles should be
cited much like print articles, but they
should include additional information
about the source location. The basic
structure is as follows:
Author, A. B., Author, C. D., & Author,
E. F. (2000). Title of article. Title of
Periodical, Volume number, page
numbers. Retrieved from source
For example:
Jenet, B. L. (2006) A meta-analysis on
online social behavior. Journal of In-
ternet Psychology, 4. Retrieved from
http://www. journalofinternetpsychol-
ogy.com/archives/volume4/ 3924.html
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30. Citations
Citations within your text and their corresponding information on a reference
page at the end of your work are necessary parts of APA style, as they show
readers where your ideas and research came from.
Within the main body of your paper, you will need to refer to any other
publications you used in composing your argument or conducting your research
with a citation. You will note these citations using an author-date-page method,
in which you list the author's last name, the year of the publication, and the page
number of the information you are referencing. These are all separated by
commas, and are placed within parenthesis following your text. The page number
is preceded by a lower case 'p' with a period after it.
For example:
Previous research shows that private schools and public schools are roughly
equivalent in demographics (Smith, 2007, p.199).
If you state the author's name in your text, you only have to include the year of
publication and the page number.
For example:
Smith stated that private schools and public schools are roughly equivalent in
demographics (2007, p.199)
The citing format you use for books can vary depending upon the number of
authors that are listed. If a book has just one author, simply provide the author’s
last name followed by the publication date. In cases where then are more than six
authors, the last name and first initial of the first listed author should be used,
followed by "et al.".
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31. For example:
...students demonstrated com-
petence after reading about APA
format (Smith et al., 2005).
Or
Smith et al., (2005) found that...
When you are citing articles in
academic journal, magazine,
newspapers or other periodicals,
you should follow the author-date
format. APA citing should include
the author's last name, followed by
the date of publication.
For example:
...as Smith and Jones (2005)
described...
Or
...the study found a statistically
significant relationship between the
two variables (Smith & Jones,
2005).
In some instances, a publication
might not have a listed author. In-
clude the short title of the article
followed by the date of publication.
For example:
...the findings were contradicted
previous research on the subject
("New Research," 2009).
The format you use for citing of
electronic media depends upon the
type of source that is used. In many
cases, the format will be very simi-
lar to that of books or journal arti-
cles, but you should also include
the URL of the source and the date
it was accessed in the reference
section.
Victoria Luna (2007). Factores
que afectan la adquisición de una
segunda lengua. Recuperado el 26
de octubre 20013 de http://
a l e m a r o m a n o v i . w e b s . c o m /
factoresqueafectan.htm
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32. REGISTER A THESIS
By Zaira Pereira
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33. There are several ways to
obtain your degree, most of them al-
ready knew them very well, but which
of them is the less popular? It is really
easy to guess that we are talking
about the fearsome thesis. But if you
feel interest by your topic and the
people think the same, be brave and
go for it!
The students that wish obtain their
degrees through thesis and the oral
professional exam should observe the
next standards:
THE STANDARDS
The technic director approves, by
paper, the topic of the thesis and he
will assign a counsellor, who will be
the responsible that your work have all
the requirements established. For
example the thesis must be about a
topic related with the degree, you
need topic presentation, index,
bibliography, the original version and
four copies, in order to be register
and they will give you a copy.
The thesis counsellor must be part
of the system and have the
professional experience in the
developing field.
The printing of the thesis should be
approve by the counsellor and the
Technical director.
The counsellor must be part of the
panel, this panel is made for three
sinodals, all them accredited by
DGIRE.
PROCEDURES
 Ask for your revision
 Present your payment receipt
 They will give you a date to your
presentation.
ACCREDITATION
Approve the thesis presentation
and approval of the jury in the oral
exam.
If you don't have stage fright and
you feel good about your thesis this is
your best option.
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34. The advantage of do it by thesis
It is an opportunity for learn to
structure a project one hundred
percent academic and professional,
also you have the time enough to
elaborate it.
The thesis let the student see the
areas that need reinforcement or as
we say nowadays “opportunity areas”
for its translate to spanish, in the
professional field. And the student
focus in those areas which he really
feel a connection with.
Also prepare to the student in the
professional field, today they are
assesors or the jury, but tomorrow
maybe it will be a team work, client or
your boss.
UACJS
Talking by the particular case of
UACJS, L.I.I. these are the steps:
 The student develop his
research during the last three
periods
 The assessor sends to the
stud ent an app licat ion
document for three review
assessors.
 The Academic Secretary gives a
review period, this period
depends on the progress of the
student.
 The review assessors delivered
a letter for the graduate of
reviews conclusion.
 Academic secretary issue an
approval document to perform
the procedure
 The graduate do his degree
process and wait for the exam
date. He must deliver three
spiral bound copies.
 The exam is in Spanish, and it
is about the experience of do
researches.
 He takes an oath by law as
"Licenciado en Idioma Inglés"
and this turns him to a
candidate for honorable
mention.
The previous information is
available on the official page on
facebook named: “Grupo Egresados
LII (oficial)” and the information is
controlled by the sub-coordinator of
the degree who specifies and offered
help in the page with the following :
“If you require more support, contact
us by phone or inbox. You will
receive personalized attention until
conclude the process.”
So as you notice it is easier than you
though, and for the case of UACJS it
is really easy because they take you
step by step, and it will give you the
opportunity of receive honorable
mention.
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35. REFERENCES
http://jameshaytonphd.com/top-10
-tips-for-fast-thesis-writing/
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estudiantes/otros07.php
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index.php/alumnos/titulacion/
opciones-de-titulacion
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36. EDITOR IN CHIEF
Roberto Manuel Osorio Soto
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Ruby Leonora Dueñas Castillo
CREATIVE EDITOR
Ilse Berenice Méndez Vega
STAFF WRITER
Roberto Manuel Osorio Soto
Ruby Leonora Dueñas Castillo
Ilse Berenice Méndez Vega
Georgina Pancardo Pérez
Eduardo Alejandro Castillo Cerda
Elvia Rocío Prado García
Ivon Reina Muños
Zaira Pereira Juaréz