The Chronicle of Higher Education

On the Dissertation: How to Write the Introduction

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 ...
Michigan Technological University

Dissertation Proposal and Research

The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...
Queen Mary University of London

Research and Project Writing for Undergraduate Students

This module is offered to undergraduate students who are in the final stage of their studies, in the process of writing their dissertation/research project, or about to do it. The module addresses the ...
manilatimes

Writing the research script: The Introduction

WRITING the final research manuscript — whether this be a thesis or dissertation — is no holiday. Briefly, the researcher writes the Chapter 1, titled "The Problem and Its Scope," with an inviting and ...