Editing Your Dissertation Paper Smartly

Editing is what you start when you complete your first draft. Herein, you go through your draft carefully to check whether the dissertation is well organized, there are proper evidences to confirm your arguments, and that the shifts between paragraphs are effective or not. This means that editing occurs at different levels such as content, structure, style, and citations. This is exactly how you are supposed to edit for making an effective final dissertation.

At the content level, you need to check whether the paper includes everything that is essential as well as relevant as per your goal of writing the dissertation. Further, you also need to see whether the claims are precise and consistent, arguments are complete, each argument has adequate evidence or not. 

You now monitor the writing style in the paragraphs. Here, you ensure that an appropriate tone such as formal is used consistently, proper gendered language is retained, passive voice is not used, unnecessary words such as ‘due to the fact that’ and ‘generally’ are not used. At the end, editing includes checking the citations. Herein, you need to ensure that the quotes, ideas, and paraphrases are properly cited and that too in the correct format. The moment you edit at different levels, you are bound to make drastic changes to the content of your paper.