Masters Discussion Forum

As long as it is relevant, you should include information about the country. Say, for example, that you were talking about flood mitigation in Japan. In that case, one should include both general and specific information: what policies and structures exist at a national level, and how are they implemented locally? It makes sense to deal with the broader national level first, because one nation may be more susceptible to floods than another (like, not many floods in the desert, but maybe lots of floods in a island nation like Japan?) and therefore may have developed strategies at the national level.

I suppose what you can do then is to take a city as a case study to then look at how effectively national mitigation policies were applied at the local level. This could be done by looking at evidence of a disaster prevented, or maybe at the failure to prevent a flood?

Treeoflife, I'm doing Master's degree thesis. MasonBrown, I'm on board with your advice, however, some references are exactly it is, we can't change.

Copying a lot of articles is a definite bad idea. People will consider this as a plagiarism. You can use some quotes only or some pieces of information (and of course, with telling from where is the information). You have to meet all your thesis requirements first of all. Capacity, style, format, etc. Then think about how valuable is your thesis. Is there something new and interesting? Don't make your work just full of dry facts, add interesting relevant information and analyze each aspect of the topic. It means you should not write only about the country in your thesis.

Hello, I'm now writing my thesis mainly about flood mitigation in a city. I described a lot about the country and then going deeper to my selected city. Could you give me advice! does it sound good even I talk much about the country above? And I also copied many articles to support my study, is it a bad idea?