Once you have your outline sorted and you've got a pile of research notes together, it's time to knuckle down and start writing. You need not necessarily start at the beginning – in fact, ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

My advice for anyone writing a thesis is to identify what the examiners are looking for, and then give them what they want. While this is good guidance, to be really helpful it needs to be elaborated ...

There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

At the beginning of my dissertation journey, I didn’t have a clear plan. I was eager to start as soon as possible, and this led to disorganised writing and a lack of focus. To avoid this mistake, ...

Who better to help with essay neurosis than a venerable public intellectual and author? As a young scholar, Umberto Eco trained himself to complete everyday and academic tasks at speed; he quickened ...

No matters to which field you belong to, you have to submit a dissertation that presents your understanding and learning about the subject area. Marketing is a very interesting domain which students ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Roger Conover, the press’s executive editor, tells me that the handbook has been staple reading for ...