OK, KIDS. Gather around.

One of my PhD students, the one who is closest to finishing her doctoral dissertation, is assembling her 3 papers-style dissertation. As such, she is writing her introductory chapter.

I realized I have no resource on my blog on how to write...
... the introductory chapter of the doctoral dissertation.

So here it goes.

I have written blog posts that offer suggestions on how to write components of the dissertation elsewhere. This is my page with Resources for Graduate Students http://www.raulpacheco.org/resources/resources-for-graduate-students/
This blog post (the one shown below) http://www.raulpacheco.org/2018/01/preparing-the-core-elements-of-the-phd-dissertation-towards-the-thesis-defense/ offers a list of elements that I think every about-to-defend PhD candidate should have absolute mastery on.

Different supervisors may suggest contrasting elements or tables of contents for the dissertation.
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