ABSTRACT
A researcher will feel better when he/she has captured even a little of his/her research thinking on paper. It will be a start towards the dissertation. It is actually quite hard to make the very first written draft of anything. Once that first draft is on paper (or on disk or on screen), it becomes very much easier to improve it, to expand it, to develop it, to tighten it up, and gradually to make it worthy to appear in the final version of the dissertation. The longer the researcher lives with his/her literature review, the better it becomes. It is something to keep editing, adjusting, condensing, expanding, until it is fit for the purpose for the dissertation. Whatever the dissertation does or does not do, it needs to come to a good finish. The dissertation ending is the last thing an external examiner is likely to read before switching into 'judgement' mode.
