How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation

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Examining each essential stage of research and writing a dissertation, this book teaches students across all disciplines how to use qualitative and quantitative techniques to plan and research, how to generate ideas to develop into original research projects, and how to write a clear and concise dissertation.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I Examiners and Supervisors
• Examiners âÇô What Are They Looking For?
• Working With Your Supervisor
• Part II Generating and Developing Original Ideas
• What Activities Suit You Best?
• Types of Research
• What Interests You Most?
• Generating Your Own Ideas
• Developing Your Ideas 1: Causal Relations
• Developing Your Ideas 2: Conceptual Relations
• Original Questions and Hypotheses 1: Using Analogies
• Original Questions and Hypotheses 2: Working With Your Structures
• Part III Deciding on your Project
• Searching the Literature
• Choosing the Topic
• Part IV Organising your Work
• Planning Your Research
• Managing Your Time
• Your Retrieval System
• Reading
• Note-taking
• Part V Doing your Research
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research
• Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources 1: Quantitative Research
• Primary Sources 2: Designing and Distributing Your Questionnaire
• Primary Sources 3: Qualitative Research âÇô Interviews and Focus Groups
• Primary Sources 4: Qualitative Research âÇô Case Studies and Observations
• Part VI Planning your Dissertation
• The Main Components and Introduction
• The Literature Review
• Research Methods, Findings, Conclusions and Appendices
• Part VII Organising your Thinking
• Developing Consistent Arguments 1: The Components
• Developing Consistent Arguments 2: The Connections
• Using Evidence 1: Describing It
• Using Evidence 2: Drawing Inferences
• Using Evidence 3: Creating Causal Connections
• Using Language 1: Clarity
• Using Language 2: Consistency
• Part VIII Writing your Dissertation
• The First Draft
• Finding Your Own Voice
• Simplicity and Economy
• Part IX Plagiarism, Referencing and Bibliographies
• Plagiarism
• Referencing and Bibliographies
• Part X Editing
• Revision 1: The Structure
• Revision 2: The Content
• References
• Index
• Conclusion
• Index