How Past Dissertation Projects Can Help in Current Dissertation Writing

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If you are an undergraduate degree or a master's degree student performing a dissertation task as part of the requirements of your degree, you would initially believe that you have a daunting task ahead of you. This is especially difficult for master's degree students because many of them have part-time or full-time jobs to finance their master's degrees and their dissertation tasks could be much harder and complicated. However, a good way of overcoming the difficulties in the dissertation project is obtaining copies or samples of documents of past dissertation projects from previous students and using those previous projects as your guide and tool in the researching, writing and completing of your own dissertation task.

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The two primary methods of obtaining copies or samples of past dissertation projects are from the college or university department where you are undertaking your undergraduate or postgraduate degree. However, obtaining copies of copies or samples from the previous dissertation works of previous students would depend on the consent of your dissertation committee and supervisor, and the officers of the department. More than often, they would usually not agree in providing copies or samples of the previous dissertation documents of previous students.

Therefore, the only other option is obtaining free dissertation samples that are available for free reading and downloading from various Internet websites. The free samples of dissertation documents are usually part of the free dissertation help service that is offered by several types of websites. The websites that provide the free services for dissertation help includes student communities or student organizations, official websites of universities and other higher education institutions, academic organizations, and essay writing services or academic writing companies. But the websites of academic writing companies are the primary sources of free example or sample documents of past dissertation projects because they would usually have an extensive collection or database of sample dissertation documents on various subject areas or topics. Moreover, they would allow free reading and downloading of some dissertation examples from their websites.

So how could the free examples of dissertation documents could help you for researching and writing your own dissertation project? The answer is using the dissertation example as an informative guide, comparative template, and reference tool. The dissertation example could serve as a comparative template because if the topic of the sample is related to your own topic, the structure and format of the example would be applicable for your own document. In addition, the paper margins, font style and size, spacing of the sentences and paragraphs, and other technical aspects of the sample could also be applicable for your own document. As a reference tool, the bibliography and appendices in the example that is related to your dissertation topic would also be useful as resources for your own research.