Thema and title, text architecture, scientific rhetoric and stylistics, audience orientation, and reader guidance represent the general requirements for doctoral theses. This book demonstrates how subject-specific issues can be transformed into a structured text development. The typical macrostructures of social science doctoral theses, strategies for structuring sequences, and text coherence are explained. Using examples from completed dissertations in the fields of economics and computer science, it illustrates formulation strategies for the introduction and argumentation as well as the most important stylistic devices of scientific rhetoric, highlighting their intentions and effects on the reader. It also provides a systematic overview of the functions of scientific citation and the possible variations in structuring the introduction and designing the conclusion.