Step 1: Find a few decent academic writing services

Once you know the criteria for a good writing company like DissertationExpert, you can get hold of a list of some great ones on the internet and use those criteria to find the best one. Go through their website and make sure of the following:

• The company offers the services of native English writers
• No plagiarism is tolerated by the company
• Deadlines are treated as important
• Free revisions are offered if students are not entirely satisfied
• The website contains a number of helpful blogs

Step 2: Contact each one and get quotes

Now it’s time to contact some of the better companies and gauge the service you receive. Note how the consultants treat you and don’t be shy to voice any concerns you may have. Ask tons of questions and don’t let anything be left to chance.

Step 3: Ask for a list of dissertation topics

Get a list of topics from the consultant you are dealing with. Choose one closest to your own topic and ask about the person who wrote it. Are they native English? Do they understand the rules about plagiarizing? Will you be able to consult with the writer throughout the writing process? All these are important questions, so ask away.

Step 4: Negotiate on the price

• Many don’t know this, but you can ask for a discount at certain academic companies by doing the following:
• Offer to bring a friend as additional business
• Offer to bring in more work in the future
• Offer to write a testimonial for their website

Step 5: Use your example to write a stellar paper

• Now that you have a great example, use it to perfect three elements in your own dissertation:
• Note the format of the outline and copy it using your own subtitles
• Gain insight into the style of writing and how the argument is laid out throughout the paper
• Look at how the references are worded in the biography

Dissertations are not as hard as most students think they are. For one thing, headers and chapters help you to break up the content into doable portions. Plus, inner case studies, bars, graphs, and charts – all of these take up space as well. Plus, when you reformat your dissertation for binding, and add those two inch left margins, you’ll really see how much more content you have than your thought you did. But the best lessons you’ll learn about how to write a dissertation, are gained, I think, through looking at other students’ dissertations. This means you have to learn to embrace a few basic tools: Interlibrary Loan, the library dissertation stacks, and dissertation abstracts international.

First, Never Pick a Topic that Doesn’t Have a Significant Body of Research on It Already

Most students go into their dissertations thinking “I’ve got to come up with a topic so unique, so ultimately my own, that it hasn’t been tackled by anyone else.” Do you know why? Well, because you won’t be able to find any research if you come up with a “unique idea” that is that unique.

Second, Get a Good Model – or Lots of Models

One of the first things I did when I was working on my dissertation was to find another dissertation to look at that was in my same major area—American literature. This helped me in so many ways. For one thing, I immediately noted the formatting issues—there are all kinds of parts to a dissertation. There is a table of contents, acknowledgement page, a dedication page, the title page, all kinds of prefatory materials –before the dissertation starts even. Plus, dissertations use an end note system that is quite different than any citation system you have used before. Endnotes are scholarly notations that help you
“discuss” things with your reader beyond the narrative of your study.

Find a Model or Two (or Four) on Your Topic as Well

You want to find all the dissertations on your same topic as well. These will help you to ferret out research that is not immediately found on a Google or library database search. And other students, with the aid of their committee members, will find all kinds of things you haven’t and you can profit from their research too!