Abstract

RAMIREZ GARCIA, Rosalba Genoveva et al. Desarmando el rompecabezas en torno a la experiencia de elaboración de una tesis de maestría. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.155, pp.68-86. ISSN 0185-2698.

This text is an exercise in reflective sociology by a group of graduate students regarding their experiences of writing their Master's theses. A number of diverse topics are addressed: motivations, challenges, achievements, tensions, identitary reconstructions and lessons learned along this path. The reflection and analysis of the graduate students indicate that writing a Masters thesis is not a linear process, but rather a dynamic process not exempt from the ups and downs intertwined in the students capacities for responding to increasingly complex and changing demands through the learning generated in interactions with groups of peers, professors and thesis advisors, and in the cultural and normative frameworks provided by institutions.

Keywords : Experiences of graduate students; Masters degree; Writing theses; Reflective sociology; Academic writing; Learning to research.