Planning Your Dissertation
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Beschreibung
A friendly and essential companion to your dissertation journey. It takes you step-by-step through the planning for each stage from your first idea to the finishing touches.
Packed with practical advice and examples of student writing, this guide shows you how to:
• find an idea and focus your research question
• write a proposal
• structure your literature review
• choose your methodology
• put the crucial finishing touches to your work
A friendly and accessible companion to doing a dissertation. Focuses on the early stages of getting started and making a plan, whilst also outlining the later stages and offering models to help students to look and plan ahead, right to the end. Diagrams and illustrations are used to make key points.
- Includes activities and checklists designed to help students formulate ideas, set objectives and track their progress
- Provides guidance on how students can establish a strong working relationship with their supervisor
- Contains examples of real students’ work across a range of disciplines
- Shows students exactly what examiners and supervisors are looking for in their work
new_to_this_edition
- Expanded content on using theory and writing abstracts
- Includes more examples from students’ dissertations, including an outline for a performing arts dissertation
Final year undergraduates undertaking dissertations across a wide range of disciplines, including business, social science, biomedical science, education and health.Postgraduates doing dissertations on taught Masters courses.
Autor*in
Kate Williams
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