"defend a dissertation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of presenting and verifying the research that was completed in order to earn a doctoral degree. For example, "After weeks of preparation, John was finally ready to defend his dissertation."
Summers played the role of "the ultimate murder board," according to Sperling, making the Treasury officials defend their ideas the way a Ph.D. student must defend a dissertation.
At some point I would have to take and pass a preliminary examination, and finally I would need to write and defend a dissertation.
Those three letters after her name, after all, stood for something: nearly a decade of training and the tenacity, resourcefulness, and smarts to research, write, and defend a dissertation.
Many schools will require you to pass qualifying examinations to demonstrate your preparation to write and defend a dissertation, or thesis.
Doctoral candidates in the field of clinical psychology must usually write and defend a dissertation before completing their studies; however, select institutions that offer a Psy.D. may require a full-scale project such as designing a treatment program.[16].[16]
In 2000, a Massachusetts scholar successfully defended a dissertation based on the premise that de Vere wrote the Shakespeare canon.
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.
How did they find the time for extensive reading and research, as well as writing and defending a dissertation, while deliberating on bills, discussing policy ideas, and meeting with voters?
"LeBron is the most talented and highest-performing basketball player on the planet, and he's had a fairly legitimate claim to this title for nearly a decade," he e-mailed me recently, as if defending a dissertation.
In this university medical trainees mandatorily carry out research and defend a thesis or dissertation as partial fulfillment for certification counting up to 50% of the final year score.
Others defend a unitary view.
