Dissertation Guides
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Your Paragraphs Describe, They Do Not Argue: How to Rebuild Them (2026)
The feedback says descriptive and you cannot see why. Your paragraphs stop at the evidence instead of at what the evidence means — and on UK marking criteria…
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Where Should You Get Your Signposting Phrases? Five Sources Compared (2026)
Five places UK students get linking and signposting language, compared — the Academic Phrasebank, your own university’s list, generic web lists, AI paraphrasers and published articles. One of…
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How Much of Your Dissertation Mark Is for Writing? The Published UK Criteria (2026)
No UK university publishes a national standard for how much of a dissertation mark is for writing, and at least three publish undergraduate criteria with no writing category…
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Can You Use “I” in a UK Dissertation?
There is no national rule, and UK universities publish opposite defaults — Leeds says academic arguments are “not usually presented in the first person”, Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory says…
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How to Choose the Right Tense for Each Dissertation Chapter (2026)
The past for what you did, the present for what is still true — but four sections have named UK universities publishing opposite instructions. Hull says write the…
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How to Run an Independent-Samples T-Test in SPSS and Report It Properly (2026)
Run an independent-samples t-test in SPSS from data entry to the finished results paragraph — which row of the output to read, where the effect size comes from,…
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What Do You Do When Your Statistical Assumptions Fail? (2026)
Your normality test came back significant, Levene’s failed, or your VIFs are enormous. What each failed assumption actually means, the specific fallback for each one, and how to…
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How to Do a Thematic Analysis for Your Dissertation: The Six Phases, Step by Step (2026)
Braun and Clarke’s six phases of thematic analysis worked through step by step for a UK undergraduate dissertation, with the expected output of each phase — plus the…
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What Is an Acceptable Cronbach’s Alpha for a Dissertation? (2026)
What counts as an acceptable Cronbach’s alpha in a UK dissertation, where the .70 rule actually came from — and why Nunnally, the man everyone cites for it,…
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What Happens If You Are Accused of Academic Misconduct on Your Dissertation?
You are notified in writing and given the evidence, you get a meeting to respond, and the university decides on the balance of probabilities — not beyond reasonable…