Topic:
When your professor will ask you to write a dissertation, first you have to choose a topic. Topic selection is like a foundation brick; if it is strong and placed at the right place, then everything will be perfect otherwise everything will go wrong. So you need to do deep research for choosing a topic. Topic searching can be done in two categories; your area of interest and current trends. The topic you choose must be according to your interest. For example, if you are a student of computer science and app development is your favorite field, then you must choose the topic related to app designing and development. Because based on your interest you have more knowledge and interest in doing research and work on it. After choosing your field of interest (let’s say app development), search for the latest trends or gaps in this field.
Let’s suppose the latest trend in the field of technology is 5G, so you decide to develop an app for 5G devices. Here you need to further define what kind of app you are planning to design. For this, you need to find the gap in the current app that you need to cover for 5G. Let’s say according to the 5G technology the location accuracy will be 1 meter so you decide to develop the location app that will work best with 5G technologies to give the exact location with 1 meter of accuracy. So this shows that if you choose a research field of your interest, it becomes easier for you to decide your topic. The next thing which you have to consider when choosing your topic is the availability of related research material. Here reconsidering our example of app development for 5G technology devices, if 5G devices are unavailable to you so it will be impossible for you to do a practical test for your app and produce accurate results.
Research Proposal:
Once you have selected the right topic (a topic based on your interest and with all required resources available for it), you have to write a research proposal for it. The research proposal is like a presentation of your initial ideas through which you have to convince your supervisor that your research is practical and meaningful. Like the dissertation, there is a proper format for the dissertation proposal as well. You have to provide the following details in your research or dissertation proposal;
- Title of dissertation
- Thesis Statement
- Background Information
- Justification of the problem
- Literature review
- Theoretical framework/methodology
- Research schedule
- Bibliography
Aims and Objectives:
Perhaps the main part of a dissertation paper is the right definition of the aims and objectives. A powerful arrangement of aims and objectives will give your research center and your reader clearness, with your aims showing what is to be accomplished, and your objectives demonstrating how it will be accomplished.
A research aim tells about the purpose of conducting the research. In doing as such, it goes about as a point of convergence for your research and furnishes your readers with clearness regarding what is the issue here. Because of this, research aims are quite often situated inside its subsection under the presentation part of a research archive, whether or not it's a thesis, a dissertation, or a research paper. A research aim is typically figured as an expansive proclamation of the fundamental objective of the research and can go long from a solitary sentence to a short passage. The research aim centers around what the research project is proposed to accomplish; research objectives center around how the aim will be accomplished. The research aims center around a venture's drawn-out results; research objectives center around its nearby, transient results.
Each researcher will approach their aims and objectives slightly differently, and often your supervisor will influence the formulation of yours based on their preferences. The main question, why, gives setting to your research project, the subsequent question, what portrays the aim of your research, and the last question, how, goes about as a prologue to your objectives which will promptly follow. Keep in mind, in any case, that all together for your assessors to consider your research project total, you should demonstrate you have satisfied the entirety of the aims you set out to accomplish. Every one of your research objectives ought to be precise, assessable, reachable, appropriate, and time assured.
Structure of a Dissertation:
Typically there are five chapters of a dissertation; introduction, literature review, research methodology, findings and discussion, and conclusion. Some universities provide a specific format for the dissertation which students must have to follow. If your supervisor has provided you with a specific format to follow then you must write your dissertation according to it. But if it is not specified then you can use the below-mentioned general format or structure of a dissertation. A dissertation includes a title page, abstract, acknowledgement, table of contents, introduction, literature review, research methodology, findings and discussion, conclusion, references, bibliography, footnotes, and appendix.
Chapter one is about the introduction of the dissertation. It includes an introduction, background of the problem, statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, research questions, significance of the study, definition of terms, assumptions, limitations, and delimitations. The second chapter is about the literature review. It includes search description, conceptual or theoretical framework, and review of research. The third chapter is the research methodology. In this chapter, you have to write about research design, research questions, setting, participants, data collection, data analysis, and conclusion of your research methodology. In chapter four, you have to write about the results or findings of your research. In this part, you have to write an introduction, findings (organized by Research Questions or Hypotheses), and conclusion. The fifth chapter is a summary, implications, and outcomes (or discussion). It contains a summary of findings, conclusions, discussion, and suggestions for future research.