The phrase "a dissertation for a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a dissertation that is being prepared for a specific purpose, audience, or academic requirement.
Example: "She is currently writing a dissertation for a master's degree in psychology."
Alternatives: "a thesis for a" or "a research paper for a".
After leaving office as Provincial, Bergoglio was rector of a Jesuit seminary for a time, then worked on a dissertation for a degree in theology.
The site was founded in late 2000 by Mr. Hong and Jim Young when Mr. Hong was an unemployed hardware engineer and Mr. Young was struggling with a dissertation for a joint degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
Although the chess was artistic license (Mr. Vickers recently spent his spare time finishing what his academic adviser, Eliot A. Cohen, calls a 1,000-plus page "cinderblock of a dissertation" for a doctorate), the rest is, for better or for worse, accurate.
The next year he began teaching physics at Moscow State University and was appointed a professor there in 1900, after defending a dissertation for the Russian advanced doctorate.
In Computer Science Program run by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, students are required to develop a software prototype and write a dissertation for their final year project.
The aim of a PhD student is to generate new scientific knowledge and to present this in the form of a dissertation for publication.
In a 2009 dissertation for a public-policy doctorate at Harvard University, Jason Richwine, the co-author, wrote that Hispanic immigrants generally had an I.Q. that was "substantially lower than that of the white native population" — and that the lower intelligence of immigrants should be considered when drafting immigration policy.
But in 1972 his dissertation for a PhD in computer science was rejected.
He spent seven years at Georgetown and received a master's in economic theory, but never finished his dissertation for a Ph.D.
The new director has a master's degree in art history from Northwestern University and has completed all but his dissertation for a doctorate there.
She is also working on her dissertation for a doctorate in African art history from Yale, where she received a master's degree in art history.
