If I have an introduction, do I also need a conclusion? For a dissertation? Not necessarily. Books need a conclusion, and so do essays. (This paragraph is mine.) But dissertations are not books.

After reading this article, you can get an idea of how to write a thesis. Make sure you are mindful of all those steps. Be very scrupulous with everything you do. But first make a detailed ...

How to do that is worth a closer look ... will require a different presentation than a dissertation laid out in the model of a monograph (introduction plus four chapters on related topics).