The training manual deals with issues related to the initial stages of preparing a master's-level dissertation study (although they can be useful for graduate students as well) . The issues of the choice of scientific approaches and research methods, the construction of all aspects of the methodological apparatus, the planning of theoretical and experimental parts of the work . are discussed. A separate section contains recommendations for writing scientific articles and reviews . The manual includes numerous examples illustrating and clarifying the presented theoretical provisions .. There is a glossary . The materials of the textbook are addressed to students, undergraduates, graduate students of pedagogical universities and teachers involved in the preparation of masters of pedagogical education . ;Griff:Recommended by the UMO for education in the field of teacher training as a teaching aid for educational activities in the direction of "Pedagogical education"