The book explains the important points that a researcher should consider while writing PhD thesis

1. Top 25 points to consider while writing PhD thesis

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1. Successful completion of a doctoral dissertation is very personal and subtle
process. It depends on the interest and dedication of the student and
supervisor. It also vary across the topic, university rules and disciplines. It can
be completed on the stipulated time by doing it in a systematic way which
will save time and energy. PhD students are well aware about this situation
better than anybody else in this world.
2. When you start authoring the dissertation, you will come across many
dilemmas, which are mostly resolvable but delaying or distracting factors.
3. Authoring or rather crafting your own dissertation would make you think
about writing own/original content that can substantially contribute to the
development of your area of research being within the university norms and
regulations and also the University Grants Commission.

3. 4. So far, no university teaches authoring skills as part of their PhD Curriculum
and the researcher should learn to do that to avoid unnecessary delay in
completing their PhD.
5. To understand research along with acquiring knowledge on the area of
research is essential in completing the dissertation with good quality and
timely.
6. Most of the Indian Universities would provide a guide and a co-guide for the
researcher, where the Guide would be an academic expert proficient in the
researcher’s area of interest and Co-Guide would be an industry expert with a
similar background that the researcher has with more experiences.
7. It should be properly planned to publish research papers in the area of your
research in connection with the dissertation requirements as
stipulated by the university.
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4. 8. Even though your views and interests are of prime choice, always
remember that, you will complete your PhD within 3-4 years and the topic
selected for research should have relevance even at that time.
9. Research committee would look for new facts in your research. It can be
done by reading and commenting on little-analysed documents, exploring
unreported or unpublished parts of an archive, conducting a case study in a
locality or organization not previously or recently studied, running a
survey, or collating together published quantitative information, and then
statistically analysing the data.
10. Do not overload things. In the initial stage you may look for lots of
innovation in your work that would turn out to be useless as it can’t be
materialised. Hence have a rationale and plan things accordingly.
11. During your research, participate in Doctoral colloquiums, seminar,
workshops on research instruments etc. to enhance your idea and define
the problem correctly.
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5. 12. The content that you prepare should be chapterised with proper connectivity
between the chapters.
13. Each university will have a limit on the maximum number of pages that is
allowed for a dissertation. Understand that, before chapterisation, so that you
plan for the inclusions.
14. There are different methods available for referencing like APA, MLA and
Chicago. Follow the one that is instructed by your university.
15. Remember that you are aiming for a well-written dissertation, and writing
well emerges from clear understanding of your subject and Research – and that,
in turn, depends on clear understanding of what you are doing, and why you are
doing it.
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6. 16. Be sure about your limitations in research such as budget, time and
resources.
17. Be ready for an unsuccessful start and realise that you have reached up to a
blank wall. You have to come back and start from the scratch again. If you are
still blank, you can refer past dissertations and journal papers related to your
topic for getting more ideas. Most of the guides will be interest to discuss
embryo ideas, however your co students in research will be having interesting
and supporting ideas.
18. Researcher can always focus for publishing his articles in referred journals
for advancing their knowledge and further improving the quality of their
research work.
19. Research demands you to clarify the theories, analysing the arguments and
arrive at your conclusion.
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7. 20. Authoring skills can be improved only through authoring research papers,
articles and learn by completing successive drafts and reviewed by colleagues,
supervisors etc.
21. In this modern era Doctoral instruction with Individual attention has
become impossible since both the researcher and the supervisor would be
engaged in multiple assignments and responsibilities. Hence attending
seminars, networking with other research scholars are essential for developing
ideas and communication skills.
22. Dissertation revolves around the problem defined by the researcher and
the dissertation committee would look at whether you had found answer to
resolve the problem or not.
23. There should be a sync between the problem and the solution identified,
which lacks in many cases.
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8. 24. While joining for a PhD Program, the scholar would tend to believe that,
they must tackle the toughest research questions than could possibly be
answered in a PhD, just because this is the way that questions are framed in
the research literature that they read. Always consider the differences
between the professional researcher and a budding research scholar.
25. A topic selected for research should not be dull, off-putting especially if
you want that to be used in your resume and planning get in to your first job
after completing PhD.
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9. We, The Indian PhD Consultancy believes in helping
Management Research Scholars to successfully complete their
thesis with proper research guidelines and support, wherever
required during their PhD
Our Services is to assist you in :
1. Identification of Topic
2. Preparation of Research Proposal
3. Questionnaire Design
4. Pilot Study (Including Reliability test and Construct
Validity)
5. Research Methodology
6. Data Collection
7. Data Analysis
8. Research Publication
9. Chapterisation and preparation of final thesis (Thesis
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