Como escrever uma monografia

Abstract

This Technical Report presents the necessary knowledge for preparing academic work, in particular monographs for undergraduate and graduate specialization courses. The undergraduate courses aim to form professionals and academics in the areas needed for Brazilian development. The graduate specialization courses offer a broader knowledge in one determined area without the objective of deepening it. At the end of an undergraduate or graduate specialization course the student needs to present a final work, the Monograph. The stricto sensu graduate courses, on the other hand, are those where the treated area is dealt with much depth, in all its facets, as it occurs in the master’s and doctor’s degree courses. The work demanded at the end of a master’s degree course is the Dissertation, whereas to get a doctor’s degree the candidate needs to defend a Thesis. In the first part of the Report we will present the concepts of science and scientific work, monograph planning and research cycle, needed for the student to understand the scope of the work he has to undergo and how he will have to organize it in order to successfully conclude his task. All scientific work follows a cycle initiated by the observation of the phenomenon that the researcher intends to study. We will describe how this cycle will be used in order to guide the monograph preparation. In the second part of the Report we will lead the reader through the main questions involved in the confection of its monograph, chapter by chapter, from the monograph introduction, its theoretical references, research methodology, data collection and analysis, writing of the document, until the research conclusions. In the final part of the Report, we detach typical structures for commonly used research and present excerpts of already accepted works in order to inspire the reader in its research journey.