The post-graduate wisdom says, “it does not matter how relevant your thesis is, but what matters is who your supervisor is.” However, one should not understand the meaning of this statement in the literal sense. Not every supervisor will choose a proper dissertation topic for you and help you to write a strong dissertation outline. When choosing a topic for a dissertation, assessing relevance while making an outline is not an easy task, and very little will help a graduate student make the right choice. So how do you choose an adequate topic, justify its relevance, and write a proper outline?

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The process of completing a dissertation is usually divided into parts, such as research, writing itself, editing, and preparing for the viva voce. However, these stages can also be separated into smaller steps. In this article, we will discuss only a singular factor to writing a dissertation: the dissertation summary, or the abstract, as it is called in scholarly circles.

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The publication of a scientific work that paves the way to a scientific degree is not only a demonstration of ambitions, but also an indispensable condition for obtaining a degree. By providing others with access to the results of your research for many years, the scientist contributes to the further development of science. In addition, the published dissertations are easier to check for errors and plagiarism.

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The doctoral thesis is an important scientific achievement, requiring a lot of patience, time, and hard work. It is no wonder that many people who have devoted themselves to science spend many years preparing for writing a thesis. A young doctor of science is a great rarity.

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A candidate dissertation (from Latin: dissertatio – research, reasoning) is a form of work of a scientific and qualitative nature prepared for public defense in a scientific degree. That is, the degree of the Candidate of Science is awarded by the dissertational council on the results of the public defense of the thesis by the applicant. There are some requirements for writing dissertation that every applicant should know.

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The dissertation research in its structure consists of three parts: the introduction, the main part, and the conclusion, each of which carries its own semantic load. So, if the main part of the dissertation is to describe the entire body of research obtained along with any analyses, then in the introduction to the dissertation, all of the main characteristics of the dissertation research are cited. What to write in a dissertation introduction?

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