For many students the undergraduate dissertation is the first long piece of independent research they write. Esmond reads your draft as a whole and shows where the question, the argument or the evidence needs more work before you hand it in.
See how Esmond worksUp to final year, most of your work answers a question someone else set. In a dissertation you choose the question, scope it and defend your choices. That is where most of the comments from supervisors come from: a topic that is still a topic rather than a question, a scope that is too wide for the time available, or a conclusion that drifts away from what you set out to ask.
Nobody expects an undergraduate dissertation to change the field. What examiners do expect is that you show you can work like a researcher on a small scale: you know the main debate, you pick a method that fits, and you are honest about what your findings can and cannot show.
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.
Comments sit next to the passages they are about, so you can see exactly which sentence overreaches or which paragraph loses the thread. The report puts the issues in order: what to fix first because it affects the whole dissertation, and what is a local repair. It also lists questions an examiner might ask, which helps if your programme includes a short presentation or discussion of your project.
You can also use it early. A first draft of two chapters is enough to find out whether your question and your method fit together, while there is still time to change course.
Esmond reads your text through the lens of your discipline. It does not know your module, your marking criteria or your supervisor's preferences, and it is not built on Irish dissertations. Treat the feedback as a well-read second reader, and your supervisor and module handbook as the final word.
The names overlap and differ by programme. Some programmes call a written research study a dissertation and a design, software or practice-based piece a project. Choose whichever type matches your work in the intake; both are read as a final-year piece of independent work.
Yes. Upload the chapter as a PDF. Esmond reads it on its own, so mention in the intake which phase your draft is in.
No. It explains what is weak and gives a direction for revising it. The rewriting is yours.
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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