Electronic dissertation is a kind of project that is made in electronic multimedia format. It is a document that explicates the research conducted by a student and that is suitable for the worldwide retrieval and machine archives.

Electronic dissertation version is similar to the conventional type of dissertation. Like conventional dissertations, an electronic dissertation has tables, footnotes, references and tables. What are the major peculiarities of an electronic dissertation?

• The title page presents your name, the names of the committee members and the name of your school;
• The structure of your electronic dissertation includes:
  1. Explanation of how research relates to the previous investigations in the chosen area. Here you should explain why your research is significant and why the topic chosen is worth investigating;
  2. Methods used for investigating the topic. What ways of investigating have you chosen? Why do they fit your research best?
  3. Results of your research conducted. Describe the research procedure you have conducted. What results have you obtained?
  4. Interpretation and discussion of your results. This part of your electronic dissertation should analyze the results. What do they mean? Do they coincide with your expectations? How can you interpret them?
  5. Summary on conclusions. Summarize the results of your research conducted. What difficulties did you face during your research? What has been done in order to overcome those difficulties? It is better to present the positive results only.

• The reference page is made in accordance with the rules of the required style (MLA, APA, AMA, Harvard, etc.);
• The electronic dissertation is made with the help of the word processor or any document preparation system.

Thus, in comparison with any conventional dissertation, an electronic dissertation requires less money to be spent. Besides, an electronic dissertation is easier to access and distribute.