Davis and Parker gave a very well organized guidance for doctoral students on how to write a good quality dissertation in their book “writing the doctoral dissertation”. The main purpose of their book is to guide the students to a systematic approach that helps them to write their dissertation in short time with good quality. The book also helps the master students to write their master thesis. The authors in the first chapter gave two examples for two doctoral students that show the benefit of being organized and focused on the thesis. Additionally, the authors explained the management approach’s three stages in writing a doctoral dissertation. Those stages are pre-dissertation stage, selecting the dissertation topic, and finally management of research and writing. Moreover, the authors gave a characteristics list for a good dissertation. Basically, any dissertation should contribute to knowledge; this contribution can take many forms such as: new or improved evidence, new or improved methodology, new or improved analysis, and new or improved concepts or theories. In general, this book covers every single issue that any student can face in his/her writing dissertation’s journey.
