The concept is the key to scientific research

When preparing a doctoral dissertation from a doctoral student, it is required in the abstract not only to clearly describe the methodological apparatus of research, but also to formulate a research concept in which it is necessary to describe the essence of the work logically and consistently, its novelty, approaches to solving the tasks posed.

The concept is a general design of the work, its main idea or a combination of several scientific ideas that will be further presented to the defense. The doctoral thesis is a fairly voluminous work of the scientist, in which both theoretical novelty and practicality are presented. Preparing and writing a dissertation, its coverage in scientific peer-reviewed journals takes several years, so the scientific concept is developed by the thesis in the very first stages of work on the topic in order to clearly represent the way of further research. In the process of work on the thesis, some hypothetical positions can be refuted by the author, and the methods or conditions of the research change, so you need to change the content of the concept, make it a logically complete text, unlike the working version that was developed earlier.

A doctoral student can write his work independently or have a scientific adviser who already has a doctoral degree in this field of scientific knowledge. The consultant can explain what the concept is, how its working and final version is drawn up. It is important that the doctoral student learns to think conceptually, see the content of his dissertation in perspective and be able to any other scientific opponent to conceptually state the essence of his work or its individual chapters.

In any scientific concept, a personally significant author's idea must be reflected, that is, for a thesis the concept is a certain way of understanding and presenting the subject of research, the leading idea for highlighting the phenomenon or process being studied. In carrying out a practical study that is carried out not so much by the dissertator himself as by other performers under his leadership, one must also be able to clearly communicate the basic idea of his innovation to them, otherwise the research process can be carried out in different ways and the results will not be reliable.

The concept is not just a brief summary of the thesis, but a demonstrative and comprehensible text reflecting the problem of modern science and its way of solving this problem. With the help of the scientific concept it is possible to demonstrate the feature and uniqueness of its work in comparison with dissertations close on the topic. Thus, it allows us to show the "gain" of knowledge in the field under investigation. If for dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences only an oral presentation of the concept is required, then in doctoral dissertations the concept is the key to understanding what methods and means the author solves the tasks assigned, what results he receives and how relevant it is for modern modernization of education, technical science or medicine .

If the receipt of the degree of Doctor of Science is made on the totality of scientific works in peer-reviewed journals and on texts of monographs, then the entire abstract is the author's concept presented abstractly. The report of the applicant in the defense of the thesis can be presented in the form of a detailed concept with explanations, illustrations and summaries. But most often the concept is a system of interrelated and consequent views on the phenomena and processes that are studied, which are summarized by the dissertator in the methodology section. If the idea is presented in a capacious, brief and logical way, reviewers and opponents have the opportunity to see the whole essence of the work exactly as the author himself sees, without distortion.