Before writing a thesis /dissertation you will have to trash over a great number of materials for your research. You should start your work with the Thinking stage during which you take your time to debate different ideas for your future research project in your mind. Your second step is writing down all the ideas even if they seem to be absurd and unworthy at first. When you look at them later, you may change your mind. Naturally, what you have to do next is to select those ideas that you??™d like to develop in your work.