Are you considering graduate school? You most certainly may have heard that an overall comprehensive paper is a prerequisite to graduate, and you may wonder what precisely the difference between a thesis and a dissertation is. Well, there is a clear difference between the two terms, even though, at times, it is used interchangeably, and it often confuses most individuals. Thesis and dissertation papers are quite similar in structure, as it comprises an introduction, a literary review, body, conclusion, bibliography, and appendix- and that is the end of similarities.