Dissertation committees usually consist of at least three members, whose aim is to check up your dissertation research. After finishing your dissertation writing, you will present it to the members of your dissertation committee, and they will evaluate your work.
 
Let us discuss the functions of every dissertation committee member. It will help you understand that the dissertation committee members are your friends, but not foes, and it will become much easier for you to work with them on your dissertation research.
 
So, first of all, we will talk about the dissertation committee director. His or her functions are the following:

• To help a student in choosing a dissertation research topic.
• To render his or her assistance in composing the list of literature to base the dissertation research on.
• To establish the dissertation research deadlines.
• To provide a student with his or her assistance in conducting a dissertation research, writing a dissertation and correcting the mistakes in it.
• To sign the Final Dissertation Evaluation form.

The second dissertation committee member to be discussed is a student advisor. He or she has the following functions:

• To revise a dissertation research and a dissertation after the dissertation committee director.
• To help a dissertation author improve the quality of some points of a dissertation research.

Finally, the third dissertation committee member is the CHC dissertation representative. Among his or her functions we should distinguish the following:

• To check whether a dissertation can be understood by the readers.
• To check the dissertation writing quality.
• To sign the dissertation evaluation form after the defense of a dissertation research.

These are the main functions of the dissertation committee members.