Planning your dissertation / Kate Williams
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TextSeries: Pocket study skillsPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xi, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 11 x 14 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781137327949
- 22 808.066378 W.K.P
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: GETTING STARTED 1. Getting Strategic 2. Exploring Ideas 3. Working With Your Supervisor PART II: PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH 4. Starting Your Reading 5. Focussing Your Research Question 6. Time Planning a Longer Project 7. Your Research Plan 8. The Supervisor's Perspective PART III: PLANNING YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW 9. Think: What Are You Looking For? 10. Finding It 11. Reading It 12. Making Sense of It 13. Planning It PART IV: THINKING ABOUT METHODOLOGY 14. Aim and Objectives 15. Make Sure Your Methods Match Your Aims! 16. Using Theory 17. The 'Systematic' Approach: Literature Review as Methodology PART V: WHAT'S IN A DISSERTATION? Science / Technology / Healthcare Dissertation 1: Biomedical Science Dissertation 2: Sport Science Health and Social Care / Social Science / Business / Education Dissertation 3: Healthcare Dissertation 4: Business Dissertation 5: Business (Hospitality) Dissertation 6: Education Dissertation 7: Development Studies Dissertation 8: Business Humanities/Arts Dissertation 9: History PART VI: WRITING AND ARGUMENT 18. Writing Paragraphs 19. The Language of Argument 20. Writing Style: Using 'I' PART VII: PLANNING YOUR ENDGAME 21. Be Clear About What You Are Aiming For 22. The Conclusion and Introduction 23. First Impressions and Last Thoughts 24. Journey's End? References Index
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
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