What is the Purpose of writing a Thesis / Dissertation? And What are its elements?

There are three perspectives which we need to examine the purposes

• First, the Institutional purpose: To ensure that the degree holder has made a contribution to his/her respective field and to uphold an honoured academic transition. Further, candidate’s fitness to conduct and publish research and for institution generating and disseminating new knowledge is an important purpose.
• Second: Personal Purpose is to earn your PhD degree, but apart from that, you should see it as a way of learning. Only when you write the dissertation, you will able to understand much about yourself and about the topic you have researched. Further, you can make your PhD dissertation / thesis better one if you consider seriously the expectation that you will make a contribution to scholarly knowledge.
• Third, the communication purpose: You have to write a dissertation /thesis to inform with clarity but not to express personal feelings or to entertain. It should be clear at the same time simple.

All the above three purposes help to shape the PhD dissertation /thesis in a special way