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superdiss · your online dissertation supervisor
Your Online Dissertation Supervisor From your first idea to your viva.
Get dissertation help from your first idea to your final viva. SuperDiss helps undergraduate and Masters students develop research questions, find research gaps, plan methodology, analyse evidence and defend original work.
Takes 2 minutes to startNo blank pageWorks on your phone
Step 01
Write it down
capture the spark
Step 02
Write it out
develop the thinking
Step 03
Write it up
shape the real thing
Step 04
Defend it
prove it's yours
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
SuperDiss won't write your dissertation.It'll help you become the person who can.
From your first idea to your viva — your dissertation supervisor is always here.
The SuperDiss methodology — 3W + D
A dissertation isn't generated. It's developed.
SuperDiss uses a structured development framework — Write it Down, Write it Out, Write it Up, Defend it — so your dissertation grows from your own thinking, and you can prove it.
Idea
Write it Down
Capture the spark.
IdeaCuriosityProblemQuestionInitial ReadingNotes
Capture ideas before worrying about perfect academic writing. Record questions, observations, possible research problems, useful sources and early thoughts.
AI role — Questioner
Your AI asks questions. It doesn't write the dissertation for you.
What you do
Capture ideas before worrying about perfect academic writing — questions, observations, possible research problems, useful sources and early thoughts.
What the AI does
Acts as a questioner. It asks what interests you, what problem you are trying to understand and what evidence you would need — it never writes the answer for you.
Evidence captured
Your first ideas, the earliest version of your research question and every refinement of it, plus your initial reading notes.
What you produce
A named research problem, one answerable research question, an aim with objectives and a starting reading list.
Why it matters academically
A recorded origin proves the idea is yours. Examiners and viva panels reward students who can show where the research came from — not just where it ended up.
Thinking
Write it Out
Develop your thinking.
ExploreResearchConnectQuestionAnalyseDraftRethink
Turn your initial ideas into developed academic thinking. Explore the literature, challenge assumptions, identify gaps and progressively develop your argument.
AI role — Socratic Supervisor
Your AI acts like a Socratic supervisor — challenging your reasoning and asking you to justify your decisions.
Argument
Write it Up
Shape the real thing.
StructureEvidenceArgumentReferenceEditRefineSubmit
Transform your research and thinking into a coherent academic dissertation with a clear structure, defensible argument and appropriate evidence.
AI role — Academic Coach
Your AI becomes an academic writing coach — checking structure, reasoning, clarity and consistency without replacing your authorship.
Defence
Defend it
Prove you understand it.
ExplainJustifyChallengeRespondReflectDefend
Prepare to explain why you made your research decisions and demonstrate genuine ownership of your work.
AI role — Examiner
Enter a mock viva with an AI examiner that questions your methodology, evidence, findings and conclusions.
“The final dissertation is the output. The thinking that produced it is the evidence of learning.”
One AI. Four different roles.
The AI adapts to the stage of your thinking — it never becomes the author.
During Write it Down — the AI is your questioner
Your AI asks questions. It doesn't write the dissertation for you.
- “What interests you about this subject?”
- “What problem are you trying to understand?”
- “What evidence would you need?”
Traditional generative AI
PromptGenerateSubmit
Three steps, zero learning — and nothing you can defend in a viva. The work exists, but the thinking never happened.
The SuperDiss loop
- 1Question
- 2Explore
- 3Research
- 4Think
- 5Draft
- 6Challenge
- 7Refine
- 8Defend
SuperDiss never skips the thinking. That's the point.
Built on established thinking about writing and learning
SuperDiss is grounded in long-established research on how students develop ideas, knowledge and authorship.
Perceived knowledge
Understanding is personal, built through participation and reflection — not received ready-made.
Writing as a mode of learning
Writing is not just the record of thinking; it is a way of doing the thinking.
Developmental writing
Ideas become knowledge through drafting, feedback and revision over time.
Human-centred AI
AI should support human judgement and agency, never replace them.
Indicative reading
- Kloss, R.J. (1994) ‘A Nudge is Best: Helping Students through the Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development’, College Teaching, 42(4), pp. 151–158.
- Emig, J. (1977) ‘Writing as a Mode of Learning’, College Composition and Communication, 28(2), pp. 122–128.
- Elbow, P. (1973) Writing Without Teachers. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Reindl, A. (2023) Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence in Education. Cham: Springer.
SuperDiss builds on these established ideas and develops them into its own 3W + D framework — Write it Down, Write it Out, Write it Up, Defend it — designed for authentic learning, authorship and academic integrity in an AI-enabled world.
New — Originality Check
Before Turnitin, know what needs attention.
Upload or paste your own draft and let SuperDiss identify citation gaps, reference mismatches, over-close paraphrasing, academic-writing weaknesses, possible AI-writing risks and passages you may struggle to defend. SuperDiss explains what to review — without rewriting your dissertation.
Private and confidential · Your work remains yours · Independent of Turnitin · Not an official Turnitin Similarity Report
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- Citations
- Reference list
- Source use
- Academic voice
- Possible AI-writing risk
- Viva defendability
- Possible AI-writing riskFormulaic opening of the kind AI-writing indicators sometimes flag — an indicator, not proof.
- CitationsA factual claim with no source — a marker would expect a citation here.
- Reference listThis citation has no matching entry in the sample reference list — a mismatch to resolve.
- Academic voice“Obviously everyone agrees” is an overclaim — replace it with hedged, evidenced wording.
- Source useThe wording sits very close to the source being summarised — paraphrase from your own notes.
- Viva defendabilityCould you defend “prove” from one small survey in a viva? Narrow the claim to your evidence.
No similarity percentage is shown — SuperDiss never claims a Turnitin score, and similarity does not automatically mean plagiarism. AI-writing indicators can be wrong and are never proof.
Start with what fascinates you. Finish with research that is genuinely yours.
Think of it as a supervisor who's always awake. It asks the good questions, explains the confusing bits and pushes back when your argument is thin — but it never writes your dissertation for you. That part stays yours (and so does the credit).
Not another AI writing tool
ChatGPT can answer a question. SuperDiss remembers the research.
Your dissertation is not a sequence of prompts. It is a chain of academic decisions. SuperDiss helps you make those decisions, records why you made them and tests whether they still fit together.
Generic AI
- Answers questions
- Generates text
- Works conversation by conversation
- Doesn't understand your research journey
- General-purpose
SuperDiss
- Questions your thinking
- Develops your research
- Remembers every important decision
- Tests your golden thread
- Prepares you to defend your work
SuperDiss isn't trying to write a better dissertation than you. It's trying to make you a better researcher.
A chain of decisions, not prompts
YOUR RESEARCH DNA
This is what a defensible dissertation looks like when every choice still holds together. Each strand below was decided once — then every later decision had to fit it.
Question
How have independent retailers experienced changes in commercial rents in secondary UK town centres since 2020?
Every strand hangs from this one line.
1
Philosophy
Interpretivist
2
Approach
Qualitative
3
Design
Multiple case study
4
Data
Semi-structured interviews
5
Sample
Independent retail occupiers
6
Analysis
Reflexive thematic analysis
7
Theoretical lens
Place / retail resilience
Core contribution
Understanding how rental structures influence independent retailer resilience.
The one idea your examiners will remember — and the thing only you could find out.
See how SuperDiss thinks
Start with an interest.End with a researchable question.
Dissertation conversation
I'm interested in why UK high streets are declining.
That's an area of interest rather than a research question — which is exactly where a dissertation can begin.
What interests you most about the problem?
What interests you most about the problem?
2 · Spot the gap
Eleven kinds of research gap, explained simply — then write one you can defend.
3 · Read like a detective
Search smarter, map the arguments and keep every source in one place.
4 · Plan how you'll find out
Pick your method and know exactly why — no jargon for the sake of it.
5 · Make sense of your data
Code interviews, test whether a pattern is really a theme, stay honest.
6 · Write the argument
Go from describing to analysing, and keep the golden thread intact.
7 · Nail the defence
Mock vivas, a confidence heat map and the question you're dreading.
Who it's for
Built for dissertation students everywhere
Undergraduate
Your first big independent piece of research, broken into steps you can actually do.
Masters
Sharper questions, deeper literature and a methodology you can justify to an examiner.
International
Built around how dissertations are supervised, wherever your university happens to be.
Multilingual
Work with your supervisor in the language you think in — the platform translates with you.
“Wherever you're studying, the research journey starts in the same place: a question worth answering.”
Why it exists
Built by a supervisor who got tired of watching good students stall
SuperDiss was founded by Chris McGarrigle after years of watching capable students lose months to problems that fifteen minutes of the right questioning would have solved. The whole platform is built on one refusal: it will not write your dissertation for you.
“SuperDiss won't write your dissertation. It'll help you become the person who can.”
SuperDiss for universities
AI-supported dissertation supervision for your entire institution
Your university. Your supervisors. Your students. One dissertation journey. Give students structured support, give supervisors better oversight, and give the institution evidence of meaningful academic engagement.
Institutional licences from £7,500 for a single-programme pilot — the best place to start.
Dissertation help, stage by stage
Every stage of the journey has a free guide. Start by learning how to choose a dissertation topic, then work out how to write a research question and what a research gap actually is. From there, learn how to write a literature review, how to choose a methodology and how a dissertation is structured chapter by chapter. When you are close to submission, read how to write an abstract and how to prepare for your viva.
Working out where AI fits? Read our academic integrity position and how to use AI in your dissertation ethically. Departments can see dissertation supervision for universities, and students can jump straight to dissertation help from idea to viva.
Free workbook & teaching deck
A printable 14-stage dissertation workbook for students, and a slide deck lecturers can teach from. No sign-up, no email wall.
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39 plain-English guides covering topics, questions, gaps, literature reviews, methodology, analysis, writing and the viva.
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