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 ...

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.

You think you will have all the time in the world but it flies away. How do you manage deadlines which appear a long way ahead? Do you work methodically or do little bits here and there? If you leave ...

With dissertation deadlines approaching, University of Cambridge lecturer, Andy Martin, gives his last minute top tips to making your essay stand out Dissertation deadlines, for many students, are ...

First impressions are important. Scientists need to make their work stand out among a sea of others. However, many mistakenly believe that first impressions are formed based only on titles and ...

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 ...

A dissertation is ‘an extended scholarly essay, usually based upon original research, submitted for a degree or other academic qualification’ (Oxford English Dictionary). Your supervisor or the ...

You may be given a topic or asked to choose a topic of your own. If you choose your own topic, ensure that there is enough relevant literature to include for you to write a literature review. You may ...