This course provides all the vital elements for the conceptualization of meaningful research questions ideas. It provides the inspiration needed to plan a good dissertation and break down the components for a university or college student to complete it without stress. This course starts off with how you can formulate a research question that is relevant to your interests and can help you to make an impact on the world. There is the Glensinos Dissertation Planning Template that helps you to order your thoughts and create a systematic framework to build a dissertation topic. From there, we take you through the different components of dissertation writing and discuss the best practices and activities you are most likely to encounter. We also provide templates and basic insights to the most popular referencing formats - APA, Footnotes, Harvard and MLA. This will help you to make use of the Reference as you Write (RAW)framework available in MSWord.