When you need to edit a dissertation you need to know how to edit a dissertation and here are some quick pointers to get you started and on your way to success.
The first objective is to be certain that your spell check and grammar checker are both turned on in the options section of your MS Word program – this will eliminate the most common errors during the editing of your dissertation. The second step is to read the paper after setting it aside for at least a few hours. Many students will skip this step when editing their dissertation because they do not understand how this step will assist in the editing process. This step should not be skipped, the reason is that when you are the author of a paper – particularly long papers such as dissertations, you will most often know what you meant to write and though there may be a missing word – your mind will place that word in the sentence and cause errors. When you leave the paper alone for at least a few hours, you are able to take a “fresh” look at the paper and catch the minors errors that MS Word did not find for you.
Editing your dissertation also requires critical thinking – assess your chosen sources and decide if they are truly supporting your topic and research questions or if you have left the source in place to fill up your literature review, or simply to not waste precious materials gathered during hours and hours of research. This is a common problem when writing the dissertation because students spend a lot of time researching and hate to see the work wasted when it does not fit well into the assigned locations. However, if the source is not fitting, remove it from the dissertation to avoid the dissertation losing power and focus.
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