How to Structure Your Law Dissertation?
Structuring your law dissertation is a challenging task just because of its length. And this is why
usually student takes dissertation writing help. While structuring your UK dissertation, what you
need to do is set your chapters in the right order as well as include relevant information in each
chapter. Here we are going to give you an overview of how you can structure your law
dissertations perfectly:
Title Page
Just like any other document, the title page mentions the title/topic of the paper along with the
author’s name, date, course number, professor/university details, etc.
Abstract
An abstract provides the readers with a glimpse of your dissertation in the form of a summary. It
is a shortened version of your entire dissertation where you describe the aim and objectives of
your research, methodology, results, conclusion, and future direction of your research work.
Table Of Content
The Table of content lists the main and subheads of your manuscript along with the ‘references’
and ‘appendices’ sections. This has to be hyperlinked with the main content and should be
created automatically by Microsoft wizard.
Introduction
As its name suggests, the introduction gives an overview of a topic and complete research that
you are going to conduct. It introduces the readers with the main points of your research along
with few sub heads like Aims and objectives, rationale, research questions etc. By default, an
introduction should not be longer than ten percent of the entire dissertation e.g. if your paper is
10000 words in length, then your introduction should be within 1000 words.
Methodology
Methodology is a crucial chapter that provides an in-depth analysis of your research criterion and
design. In this chapter, you will be describing the chosen method of your study that can be
qualitative or quantitative research or the mixture of both. It also elaborates the research
instrument i.e. survey, questionnaire, case study etc. that will be used to carry out the research.
Literature Review
One of the trickiest chapters of a dissertation, the literature review is where you critically analyse
the latest/previous studies within the parameters of your subject area. Theoretical framework of
the study is required to be adjusted in this part, in order to support your study with the previous
theories and studies. Here you will also describe the gaps in the existing research and explain
how your research will fill those gaps.
Results/ Findings
The ‘results’ is the chapter where you will be presenting the outcomes of your dissertation. It
informs the readers about whether or not you have achieved your objectives. Apart from
informing the review committee about the findings of your project, it also discusses the
loopholes in your research as well as the repercussions they have caused to your project.
Conclusions
The conclusion is the part of your dissertation where you wrap up the entire project. In this
chapter, you connect the results of your research to the objectives you set for your project. This
chapter will tell the readers how your research works contributed to the project as well as reveal
the weaknesses in the existing research. This chapter also presents the recommendations for
future studies i.e. your study has covered a particular aspect and a few points that you didn’t
incorporate you can highlight here so that other researchers may consider these points while
conducting their research.
References
In this chapter, you enlist all the sources from where you have borrowed any information for
your paper. It is a bit demanding section as you need to write the list in the defined format and
you need to be aware of the right referencing style to properly accomplish this chapter. You need
to make sure that all the sources that you have mentioned in this section are acknowledged in the
body of your dissertation. Another important aspect is plagiarism in order to avoid any chances
of accidental plagiarism all sources have to be listed down over here.
Appendices
This is the section where you will include information that you have supplemented in your paper.
It is a kind of additional information that does necessarily add anything in the main text of the
paper. It includes the survey, graphs, tables, charts or any other source of information that needs
to be explained further.
Bibliography
The bibliography is written at the end of a dissertation. This chapter enlists all the sources that
the writer has consulted during the course of his research just to gain a thorough idea about the
topic but didn’t use any information in the paper. It mentions the names of the author along with
the number of pages and date of publication, title, journal details, etc.
