Tips on Final Year Project (FYP): Part 1

Having a headache in selecting a tittle for FYP? Already decided the tittle and were unable to start? Selecting a supervisor?

If you have all this problem, then you should scroll down.

FYP in the Faculty of Economy and Business (FEB) in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) is an required thesis to be done in a year in order to graduate. 2 semester were allocated for this and time is not much as we have other subjects to do also.

How do we select our topic?

Selecting our topic reflect back to us who we are actually. You can do this two ways.

1. Do for the sake of doing it.
2. Enjoy the every process of it

If you are selecting choice no 1 then life is easy for you. Just find a bloody supervisor and ask for a topic. And you will forever in the darkness because you do not know what are you doing.

If you choose option 2. please scroll down.

This is the steps:

1. Consult with a lecturer, senior or anyone about FYP. Do not ask them for a tittle but only talk about current issues because 80% of topic is based on it.
2. Ask yourself. What you wish to know? Write it all on a paper.
3. Choose between the questions or issues that you wish to know.
   
4. Know your resources. (respondents, journals, etc.) Based on that, you can narrow your scope of choosing a topic.
   
5. Decide and write a proposal of it.
6. Bring it up to a lecturer and ask for opinion.

REMEMBER:
Once decided then is decided. Changing topics only portray your own weakness in heart and ultimately you failed the objective of FYP.

How to choose a supervisor?

After deciding your topic, just find any who show interest to accept you. Any supervisor will do as basically all lecturers are the same. If you try to find according to their field, then that is good but again, think. Don't force yourself choose a lecturer that you are not comfortable with as your rebellious cell will be a big problem later on.

REMEMBER:

Supervisor is only a guide, thus the topic is your own not theirs. You can follow their topic and in the end you are only lying to yourself about FYP. You are being controlled by the system.

Hmmm. How to start?

Hehe, Stay tune for Part 2...

TO BE CONTINUED.....