Dissertation and Thesis

Many graduate students stumble at the dissertation stage—even though they are highly capable scholars.

The reason is that the dissertation is a fundamentally different type of project than graduate students have previously encountered. It requires a different set of skills. You must work through a massive amount of literature and organize it into a coherent review. You must produce a large-scale piece of writing (often 300 or more pages) and, then defend it in front of a committee of (sometimes) hostile critics. To get through it with your health and sanity firmly intact, you need inner fortitude, determination, and emotional coping strategies.

At Writer Wiz, we understand how difficult dissertation writing can be (especially when the outcome becomes attached to one’s personal identity). Our editors strive to be a source of emotional support while guiding writers through the various intellectual and technical challenges of completing the project. And we’ve helped countless graduate students complete their big projects.

At Writer Wiz, we work with students at any stage, including writing the prospectus, outlining and drafting chapters, writing the literature review, early drafts, the final draft, and even submission to ProQuest.

Depending on a student’s needs, we offer two primary types of dissertation/thesis editing:

• Deep Line Editing—Sentence-by-sentence editing, with close attention paid to technical and stylistic matters such as sentence structure, sentences transitions, grammar, tense consistency, word choice, logic, paragraph development, and ambiguities of meaning. If requested, our editors also serve as a de facto dissertation committee, assessing the document’s structure and organization, development of argument, use of evidence, tone, rhetorical style, and other high-level concerns.

• Style formatting / Proofreading—Careful editing of manuscript to ensure accordance with formatting guidelines of APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, or other style sheets (including those used by particular academic departments or journals), including checking of fonts, margins, spacing, headers, tables of contents, figures and tables, citations, page and footnote numbering, widow and orphan lines, etc.