The phrase "writing the dissertation" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of completing a significant academic writing project, such as a thesis or dissertation. Example: "Writing the dissertation was a challenging but rewarding experience. I spent months researching and organizing my ideas before finally completing the final draft."
And writing the dissertation was awful.
I'm writing the dissertation for my Masters (on Foucault) while working a full-time job and it's driving me mad.
Last week in the Bundestag, or Parliament, Mr. Guttenberg admitted that he had made mistakes when writing the dissertation, losing sight of sourcing on two passages.
The time straight before writing the dissertation is really hard.... Future for meteorologists in Germany seems to be conflicting, first of all in state-run research.
In science and medicine this is the standard approach, while economists, psychologists, and sociologists are more and more adopting this way of writing the dissertation.
Visiting faculty lecture series, frequent workshops on writing the dissertation, building effective relationships with mentors, and travel for students to present research nationally and internationally are also part of AGEM's retention plan.
Someone else can write the dissertation on how Peter Fonda and Jack Kerouac and asphalt came to be equated with our founding principles.
"Every morning I wake up and remind myself the university is paying me to do nothing but write the dissertation," said Kellam Conover, 26, a classicist who expects to complete his course of study in five years next May when he finishes his dissertation on bribery in Athens.
LM and MB supervised the research and worked with SS to develop instrumentation, and to analyse and interpret the data, and write the dissertation.
Even when you have not suffered any serious dips in the course of writing your dissertation, the last bits of it may still become quite a challenge.
In 1966 he moved to Los Angeles and, after working in public relations, earned a doctorate in film at the University of Southern California, writing a dissertation on the films of Josef von Sternberg.
