How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bryan Greetham.
• Authors: Dr, Greetham, Bryan
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; PART I: EXAMINERS AND SUPERVISORS; 2. Examiners – What Are They Looking For?; 3. Working With Your Supervisor; PART II: GENERATING AND DEVELOPING ORIGINAL IDEAS; 4. What Activities Suit You Best?; 5. Types of Research; 6. What Interests You Most?; 7. Generating Your Own Ideas 1: Using Trigger Questions; 8. Generating Your Own Ideas 2: Perspectives and Levels 9. Developing Your Ideas 1: Causal Relations; 10. Developing Your Ideas 2: Conceptual Relations; 11. Original Questions and Hypotheses 1: Using Analogies; 12. Original Questions and Hypotheses 2: Working With Your Structures; PART III: DECIDING ON YOUR PROJECT; 13. Searching the Literature 1: Knowing What to Look For; 14. Searching the Literature 2: How to Search; 15. Choosing the Topic; PART IV: ORGANISING YOUR WORK; 16. Planning Your Research; 17. Managing Your Time; 18. Your Retrieval System; 19. Reading; 20. Note-taking; PART V: DOING YOUR RESEARCH; 21. Qualitative and Quantitative Research; 22. Secondary Sources; 23. Primary Sources 1: Quantitative Research; 24. Primary Sources 2: Designing and Distributing Your Questionnaire; 25. Primary Sources 3: Qualitative Research – Interviews and Focus Groups; 26. Primary Sources 4: Qualitative Research – Case Studies and Observations; PART VI: PLANNING YOUR DISSERTATION; 27. The Main Components and Introduction; 28. The Literature Review; 29. Research Methods, Findings, Conclusions and Appendices; PART VII: ORGANISING YOUR THINKING; 30. Developing Consistent Arguments 1: The Components; 31. Developing Consistent Arguments 2: The Connections; 32. Using Evidence 1: Describing It; 33. Using Evidence 2: Drawing Inferences; 34. Using Evidence 3: Creating Causal Connections; 35. Using Language 1: Clarity - Jargon; 36. Using Language 2: Clarity - Manipulative Words; 37. Using Language 3: Consistency; PART VIII: WRITING YOUR DISSERTATION; 38. The First Draft; 39. Style 1: Finding Your Own Voice; 40. Style 2: Simplicity and Economy; PART IX: PLAGIARISM, REFERENCING AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES; 41. Plagiarism; 42. Referencing and Bibliographies; PART X: EDITING; Revision 1: The Structure; Revision 2: The Content; Conclusion
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (408 pages), (4 illustrations)
• Subjects: Handbooks & Manuals; Writing Skills; Reading Skills; Study & Teaching; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Educational: General studies / study skills general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137389787; 1137389788
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