help with dissertation writing

help with dissertation writing

How to Write an Outstanding Dissertation

1. Introduction

What is the purpose of this paper? This dissertation will help you to understand the impact of globalization on firms across different industries. The focus will be on U.S. based firms seeking to go global rather than companies overseas attempting to enter the U.S. market. The ultimate goal is to determine whether or not increased reliance of global strategic management has an effect on the importance of understanding industry level analysis. As the global economy continues to grow, more and more firms are finding it crucial to their survival to expand their business into foreign countries. In order to gain an understanding of the impact on global strategy, I will conduct a study on nine firms, spread out evenly across three different industries. Each of these firms has made a significant attempt to globalize its business within the last ten years. By comparing the current strategic posture of their global and domestic operations, I hope to gain insights into the various factors which influenced their decisions to go international. Further analysis will then examine whether higher global integration has resulted in a shift of focus away from the traditional industry to a broader, more global point of view. This in turn will set the stage for a detailed analysis of each industry’s global environment, and the effects it has on global strategy.

2. Choosing a Topic

On the surface, the task of choosing a topic for your dissertation might not seem to be a big problem. You are starting it because you have some ideas in your head, and that is what you will have been discussing in all your previous interviews. But before you rush off to your tutor to change your initial idea, allow yourself to think one important question: what is the ultimate reason for doing this dissertation? This may sound like a rather strange question, and one would respond by stating plainly that the dissertation is the ultimate end to all the years of education and is required in order to get a degree. I don’t mean this at all. Think carefully at this point exactly what you want from this final piece of education. What would be the ideal situation after completing the dissertation and obtaining your degree? Are you hoping to start a career in academic research? Perhaps you are aiming to gain some practical results which would be helpful when trying to land a job in industry. Maybe you just want to continue education and this dissertation is ideally a stepping stone to a Masters or PhD. Now, with the answer(s) to this question firmly in mind, get some paper and write it down! Then, from these aspirations, you need to consider carefully what sort of dissertation is most likely to help reach these goals. One thing to keep in mind is that for a dissertation where the main goal is to achieve a job in industry, an intense topic on abstract theory may not be very useful. On the other hand, it might not be a great starting point for someone who wants to go into academic research to do a project closely related to IT currently in the industry. The difficulty in making a wise choice here can vary quite a lot depending on the topic. For instance, a student studying mathematics may already know that their plan is to continue to a PhD, and so it is obvious that they should select a topic with a heavy theory and/or computation base. On the other hand, that student in mathematics with an industrial career in mind does have a problem. Mathematics research is quite similar to the subject as a whole in that it has a wide range of topics applied to a wide range of different areas, a lot of which is abstract theory. So this student must surely think about what type of industry job they are hoping to secure in the future and may wish to discuss this question with a careers advisor. What we have stated so far is essentially a guideline to choosing the correct level of a topic in relation to the degree of study and career aims. Now, assuming that we have placed confidence in the fact that the dissertation indeed is worth the effort and we have narrowed down the type of topic required, let us ask yet another important question: how to obtain a topic.

3. Research and Methodology

A good piece of research, be it a case study, report or dissertation, will follow a clear path and have a consistent structure which is shaped by the research question or problem. It is important to understand the section of your dissertation as this can prove difficult for some people due to its many layers which need to be systematically arranged. Although research can be mind-boggling, difficult and tiresome, it should always be challenging, fulfilling and illuminating. Remember, your research will always be part of a bigger intellectual enterprise, try not to get too bogged down in the detail at the expense of discussing the overall objectives of your work and its contribution to knowledge in its field. Always ask yourself “does this piece of research logically and systematically answer my research question or hypothesis?” and if the answer is no, ask yourself another question. Revisit.

4. Writing and Structuring Your Dissertation

The important thing to keep in mind about writing a dissertation is that this is a process. While sometimes we come to think of it as an event such as “write the dissertation,” it is really a lifelong project involving (hopefully) continual improvement. This is a very important point. It’s easy to think that dissertations are just for the end goal of getting your degree. Everything that you do should instead be viewed as an opportunity to learn and improve. The actual writing stage only accounts for a relatively small part of the entire process. Consider the time that you spend setting up the project with something like Schroder, developing code, or creating/test models. The analysis and results should be areas of learning (such as deepening your understanding statistical analysis), followed by improvement of what might be rough results. This all is very basic advice, and I don’t mean to sound condescending. I only bring these points up because many students have come to realize it with hindsight and wish that they’d changed their perspective then. View your entire dissertation as a learning experience. The more learning and improvement you bring to it, the more it will benefit you throughout your career.

5. Conclusion and Finalizing Your Dissertation

Conclusion defines your research by summarizing it, which would obviously be implemented in the abstract. So, the conclusion should be well-written with better understanding for the reader. It is one of the difficult parts of your dissertation. If you are stuck here, we can help you by testifying the hypothesis and answering the research question. If your hypothesis is generally to be tested, it will state the prediction, and you will build your findings to address whether the prediction is true. If the hypothesis is complex, it will be expressed and restated in terms of the various theories and variables it was meant to test. The hypotheses and research questions should be restated and testified. If your data analysis was qualitative, since this study is more focused on children’s knowledge process, with implicit ideas about development, than on specific learning outcomes. Now we should attempt to piece together the understandings of influences on these beliefs, so we can conclude with a new style restatement. It should show the way to understanding the various factors seen as influences, and their relation to the concept. It may perhaps end with a hypothetical model of one or more of these factors and its effect. This is just a template, focusing on the ideas of your study. You should rebuild a clear portrayal of your story, only telling what has been learned. A good conclusion best explains the facts.

It is a document that demonstrates your capability to conduct research and to communicate the results through written words. So it’s very important for you to write an outstanding dissertation if you wish to impress your professors and get good marks. Now the question arises, what should an outstanding dissertation be like? How do you build up your mind to write an outstanding dissertation? These are the questions for which students are seeking answers.