You should always be very clear about your research requirement. The following is a set of instructions I received several years ago from one of my clients. I wish all of them were so detail-oriented and engaged :)

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Dear Writer,

First of all, thank you very much in advance for your help.

I would like you to significantly improve and expand a Thesis that I am conducting that deals with the development of the marketing strategy of a language school. The language school is located in Spain and is planning to expand its business operations to the Russian market.

The Thesis consists of two clearly differentiated (though totally complementary) parts: (1) the theoretical framework; and (2) the resulting product.

The part that should be improved and expanded is the theoretical framework, which is the document that I will provide you with. 12 new pages should be written and integrated harmoniously into the existing ones. It is very important that the final result (the combination of the already written text and your 12 new pages) presents the following characteristics:

- Excellent balance and consistency: relationship between the main chapters and subchapters, enough and relevant content for each section, an introduction for every section, etc.

- Excellent coherence and reliability: organization of text, the language is clear, coherent.

10 new bibliographic sources should be used from peer-reviewed and up-to-date articles from renowned business/management journals, having these sources to be absolutely relevant to the topics covered in the project.

For the sources of the "expanded marketing mix for services (3 Ps)" section, it would be more than advisable to use information from the book [...]

I have marked in yellow color those sections of the text that require improvements. In addition, I am also kindly asking you to improve or fine-tune, if you feel it necessary: (i) the table of contents (ToC); (ii) relocate some paragraphs from one place to another; and (iii) the main research problem and the derived research questions. The reason is that one of the suggestions that I received from my Thesis supervisor is that the Thesis, in its current structure (ToC), is lacking focus/depth and the scope is too broad. Moreover, the entire theoretical framework should be very coherent, logical, progressive and based on solid business theories, and all these issues are also to be improved.

During the writing process, I would like to be in contact with you regularly to ensure that you have understood my directions, that everything is proceeding smoothly and correctly, to check that your changes/improvements/suggestions are OK, and so that you can rapidly reach me in case you have any doubts. I will be more than happy to answer any doubts/feedback.

Thank you very much in advance. I really appreciate your effort and support, and I truly hope that you will exceed my expectations.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon, kind regards,

Student