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By Onslow, June 19, 2009 10:05 pm

You have invested an inordinate amount of your time, a substantial amount of money and extraordinary effort into the pursuit of your graduate degree.  On top of that, you have probably had to sacrifice countless of hours with family and friends, not to mention all the sleep you have lost.  It is hardly surprising, therefore, that you have often asked yourself whether an MA or MSc degree is worth any of this.  Now, as you confront the most backbreaking and complex hurdle of them all, your dissertation, you are asking yourself that precise question.  The answer is really very simple.  It certainly is worth it.  The certificate you receive at the end of this long and very tiring journey will distinguish you from your peers and will substantially maximise your employment-market value.  The rewards are both monetary and moral and, irrespective of how difficult the dissertation research and writing process is, well-worth all the sacrifices you have made.

While complex, the dissertation research and writing process is a straightforward one.  After you select your topic and break it down into a more focused topic of investigation, you need to access general, although academic and peer-reviewed, articles on the topic.  Reading through those articles will help you clarify the direction of your dissertation and, importantly, guide you in the writing of your research questions and hypothesis.

Following the above step, you need to take a careful look at your research questions and hypothesis and use them as guides in your search for the required research material.  When collecting your research material, you have to take a number of considerations into account: 1) there is a representative number of books and articles; 2) books and articles selected for inclusion into your study must be reliable, written by an authoritative source on the subject, published in a respected academic journal or by a  reputable publishing house and 3) should be, ideally, peer-reviewed.  Most universities have online access to academic databases, of which ProQuest, EbscoHost and Jstor are wonderful examples, and, thereby, facilitate your search for the required quality sources from the comfort of your home.

Having collected your research material, you should now read a few of them in order to write up your draft outline.  As you do so, try allocating the research material you have collected to the different sections of your dissertation.  For example, when outlining your introductory chapter it is advisable that you identify the sources which you will use in this chapter.

Once you have completed the steps clarified in the above, you are ready to begin the chapter-specific research and writing stages.  Read the articles you have set aside for Chapter I of your dissertation, annotate the articles or books as you go along and, upon completion of this stage, move onto the actual writing.  Pay extra attention to your citations and make sure that everything you quote is placed within the required quotation marks and that the source is explicitly stated.  You also need to give proper and due credit to any whose ideas you have used, whether or not you employed their actual wording.

While the dissertation research and writing process sounds complicated and is, you should derive comfort from the fact that it is straightforward.  If you still feel overwhelmed by the process and are unsure of your ability to write a dissertation, thessayist.com can help you in a variety of ways.  Not only does thessayist offer research assistance, including the collection of the required research material but, it also extends clients dissertation proofreading, editing evaluation and model writing.  In fact, you have the option of simply giving us your topic and leaving it all to one of our linguistically and academically qualified Write Right researcher/writers.  Thessayist will provide you with a complete model dissertation, or a single chapter (depending on your stipulated requirements), which satisfies the highest academic standards and is completely free of any and all forms of plagiarism.  We, at thessayist, understand how important your dissertation is to you and repay the trust you have placed in us through the provision of a completed dissertation which will more than satisfy any and all of your expectations.

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