This document provides advice for starting a dissertation and outlines the key steps in the planning, writing, and editing process. It recommends selecting a field of interest and developing an approach, title, and research question. Researchers should make an outline plan, start a list of sources, find their writing style, and perfect their bibliography. When writing, they should review their work as a whole and in sections, and ask others for critique. The final stage of editing involves further reviewing and revising the work.

1. STARTINGYOUR
DISSERTATION
Planning (this should now be done)
Select your field of interest
Choose an approach, a title and a
question
Make an outline plan
Start a list of sources
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2. Find your writing style
Acknowledge ideas
Perfect your bibliography
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Writing
STARTINGYOUR
DISSERTATION

3. Review your work as a whole
Review each section
Ask others to critique your work
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Editing
STARTINGYOUR
DISSERTATION

4. EVERYONE'S A CRITIC
Until it comes to academic writing…

5. MERGETHE STRENGTHS OFTWO
ARGUMENTSTO FORM AN EVEN
STRONGERTHESIS
THESIS
ANTI
SYN

6. KNOWINGYOUR FIELD OF
STUDY IS A MAJOR FACTOR
YOU NEED TO SEE THE “BIG PICTURE”
CRITICAL WRITING COMES
FROM CRITICALTHINKING
LEARN TO ASK QUESTIONS OF THE
TEXT
“HOW DOESTHIS WRITER JUSTIFY
WHATTHEY ARE SAYING?”