This document provides advice for starting a dissertation and outlines the key steps in the planning, writing, and editing process. It recommends selecting a field of interest and developing an approach, title, and research question. Researchers should make an outline plan, start a list of sources, find their writing style, and perfect their bibliography. When writing, they should review their work as a whole and in sections, and ask others for critique. The final stage of editing involves further reviewing and revising the work.
