Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Doctorate of Business Administration: Dissertation Process

What is Scholarly Writing?

Scholarly, or academic, writing is something that will be expected of you in your DBA classes. This kind of writing is of the same quality you would find in the journal articles you read during your research. The tone will be formal, the content will be concise. The books on the bottom of this page, below, give more detail on how to write in a scholarly manner.

Also, check out Purdue OWL's page on Academic Writing for an overview of establishing arguments, being concise, adding emphasis and more.

The following are links to templates, guidelines and library resources to help make writing and submitting your dissertation easier.

Dissertation Template document in APA 7th Edition
This template document is prepared in accordance with UWW's guidelines and modifications of APA 7th edition.
Make a copy of this for a template for yours, if possible. If you have text in another document already, it is recommended to copy and paste your content (text only) into the relevant places in this document, overwriting what is already there but keeping the style/formatting as it is in this document.

2020 Dissertation Guidelines
Guidelines for UWW Doctoral dissertations, developed in 2020 and revised slightly in 2021.
The sample pages in this PDF document are not editable. For an editable version use the Microsoft Word template above this section.
How to Import Styles from One Word Document to Another
If you already have a large existing file containing your dissertation, you can apply the correct styles from the template file above, to your existing file. Use these directions.

Submitting Your Dissertation at UW-Whitewater

After completion, your dissertation will join other works of research from UW-Whitewater in Minds @ UW, the university's Institutional Repository (IR). You can view examples of other dissertations there already.

MINDS@UW
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