A desk-based dissertation is not an extended literature review. It needs its own method, even when every source already exists. Esmond checks whether yours has one, and whether your analysis is more than a summary.
See how Esmond worksSecondary research is common in business, nursing, social policy and many arts programmes, often because primary data collection would need ethics approval that the timeline cannot carry. The risk is that the dissertation drifts into a long literature review with a conclusion attached, and an examiner then asks where the research is.
What turns desk-based work into research is a transparent approach: how you searched, what you included and excluded and why, how you extracted and compared what you found, and how you handled sources of uneven quality.
Health and nursing programmes may ask for a structured or systematic approach with a search strategy and an appraisal of each study. Other programmes accept a narrative review with a clear rationale. Which one applies is set by your module, and Esmond does not decide that for you. It looks at whether the approach you chose is described and followed through.
You upload your draft as a PDF. Short documents come back within minutes; a full dissertation takes longer. You get two things back: your own document with comments in the margin, and a separate feedback report that sets out what to tackle first. Every upload starts with a free preview, and the price follows the length of your document and is shown before you pay. No subscription, no account.
Esmond evaluates your work and writes nothing for you. Each comment points to a passage, explains what a supervisor or examiner might question, and gives a direction for revising it. You decide what to change, and every sentence stays yours.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. This page explains what the review does, so you know what to expect when it opens.
For a final year dissertation, choose the final year project or undergraduate dissertation type. For a stand-alone review assignment, choose 'Literature or systematic review'.
No. It evaluates how you selected and used the sources in your draft.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. Until then you cannot upload or order anything here; the guides on this site are free to read.
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