Question:

Introduction
This introduction should present the scope of your research, while it also establishes the
need for your research. The introduction should include any context or background
information that the reader needs in order to understand your research.
Methodology
The methodology should present how you conducted your research, as well as the rationale
behind it
Literature review
The review of literature should address what others have said about your topic
Findings present the results of your research, including interpretation of the results.

Dissertation Structure
Dissertation
Abstract
Summary of your dissertation including key findings.
Introduction
Setting the context of your thesis, what issues are you going to address in your
thesis and why?


Link your research question/hypotheses with the gaps in existing literature.
Literature Review
What research has been done? What do they say about your research problem?
Establish the gaps, issues, contradictions in existing literature on your research
topic. Link your research question/hypotheses with the gaps in existing literature.

Establish gaps, issues and contradictions in existing literature on your research
topic.

Theory
Provides with a viewpoint, a philosophical stance about research. What are the
theoretical foundations for your approach?

What approach does your research questions/hypothesis necessitate? Why?
(Justify your methodological approach)
What is a theoretical background for this approach? (Describe your
methodological approach)
Which methods are linked to it?
Which methods did you decide for and why? What other methods could you
have chosen but did not and why?
Methodology chapter
How, why and what chapter: How are you going about gathering your data.
Contains information about methodological approach/methods/sampling
procedures/ethics /validity and reliability of your data collection. In particular you
should answer the following questions:
How are you going about gathering your data? How will you evaluate the
data?
How do you choose your participants? (Describe and justify your inclusion
and exclusion criteria)
What kind of ethical considerations your research project encounter? How you
will deal with them?
Does your data reliable? Explain how you ensure reliability of your data.
How do you validate your data?



Findings
Show your data, does it or does it not answer your research questions, proof your
hypotheses? Why or why not?


Did they prove or discard issues raised in the literature review?
Discussion/Interpretation
What implications do your findings have? Did they prove or discard issues raised in
the literature review? What do your findings mean in context of your profession?

What do your findings mean in context of your profession?



What kind of implication your findings brings into to theory/policy/field of study?
Conclusion/Implications
So what? Impact on your field. What kind of implication your findings brings into to
theory/policy/field of study ? What kind of contribution your findings brings to
theory/policy/field of study?

What kind of contribution your findings brings to theory/policy/field of study?