Lay out your narrative. Choose a starting point, middle point with a climax and an ending for the account. For example, if you are writing a Ph.D. thesis on the declining tapir population in the Ecuadorian rain forest, start by explaining your first research steps and your subsequent trip to Ecuador.
Select a voice. You can write in the first person "I" voice or the third person, which uses he, she, it and them. For instance, using the tapir population in the Ecuadorian rain forest example, if you choose to write in the "I" voice, you may write "I watched, camera ready, from behind a dark and soggy tropical palm, as the tapir waddled out from the darkness, a rare sight in January." In the third person you may write "The tapir, an herbivorous mammal, is declining in numbers, due to rain forest deforestation."
Choose characters. Select research professionals, classmates who helped you with your thesis, experts in your field and project advisers as "characters" in your narrative. Ask yourself what you learned from each "character" in your thesis project. If, for a sociology Ph.D., you studied the effects of attending weekly church on morals in marriage, think about how the people you interviewed, the priest and other churchgoers influenced your research and conclusions.
Get to the climax. Point out the height of your research project. Think of a moment when things came together, you arrived at a solution or you decided to change direction and explore another aspect of the topic entirely. For instance, you may have started a literature Ph.D. thesis on the relationship between contemporary poetry and Mozart, and changed your thesis to discovering the parallels between Johann Sebastian Bach and the early short stories of J.D. Salinger.
Keep an open mind. Instead of writing a research paper full of jargon, present facts in a reader-friendly, enlightening way. However, you will run into troubles, like how to explain an exchange you can't quite remember or how to describe a section of your research that requires stellar writing. Know that research always challenges the researcher, which is a positive sign.