Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
Students need practical assistance in many aspects of writing and defending their thesis or dissertations. These guides are not a general rule for every student writing their theses or dissertation, nevertheless, these guides can give you a starting point on how to defend and what to write on the page of your thesis and dissertation. One important thing to remember is that you will always have a supporting committee and an adviser to look throughout your progress. However, the role the adviser is to supervise the work progress of your dissertation and they are not there to do it for you, or to tell you on how to do it.
It is frequently easier to start with reviewing the related literatures and then write the chapter you are most comfortable with. In reviewing at least two or three well-presented and well organized related literatures, those dissertations will be your starting point and a model for the preparation, on what a dissertation should look like. Then, the contents of your dissertation writing style should be well-defined and definite. Newly introduced words may be confusing to your readers to fully grasp your idea.
Know the proper or required formatting and templates of the dissertation. Changes of writing structure are different from the proposal stage to this stage. Always stay true on your present conclusions and the conclusions should be well-organized. This section should include suggestions on how to improve your conclusions and show the implications. The introduction part may be the last part you write or rewrite. The introduction will serve as the background of the reader on what are the points that you will address in your dissertation.
In defending your dissertation, the most reasonable advice is to practice. Practice with peers to discuss your dissertation. Then, attend other defence and prepare on what the panel will say to your defence. During the defence, you need to take note of everything the panel will bash upon you as positive critism for further improvement of your dissertation.
