What are the pluses and minuses of electronic dissertations?
 
Here are some supporting and opposing arguments for you on the issue of an electronic dissertation.
 
Arguments in favor of an electronic dissertation

1. This is an innovation of our time that helps students exchange information with their teachers and classmates. If you are a modern person who takes advantage of the innovations and progress of our time, you will use an electronic dissertation.
2. Electronic dissertations are very convenient in use. Electronic dissertation is not a pile of papers that have to be carried everywhere – heavy and inconvenient.
3. Electronic dissertation is very easy in use. The only thing you will need, in order to use electronic dissertations, is to have a computer that is widely available in every library and university.
4. Electronic dissertation can be saved on your computer. Every time you need to refer to your electronic dissertation, you will only have to find the file with the name of your electronic dissertation.

Arguments against electronic dissertations

1. Students can easily copy/paste somebody’s papers and submit this dissertation as their own. However, this is an issue of plagiarism and moral values of such students.
2. Electronic dissertations make students more lazy, spending less time writing and researching.

This is rather hard to find more arguments against electronic dissertations. This is like protesting against driving cars instead of walking, or using wash machines instead of hand washing our clothes. You cannot oppose the progress of humanity.
 
Today this is a must, a required thing to use electronic dissertations. So, what is the need to argue about electronic dissertation’s good and bad sides?!