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How to write your undergraduate dissertation / Bryan Greetham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave study skillsPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: xi, 395 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781137389763 (pbk.) :
  • 9781137389763 (paperback) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.066378 GRE 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2369
Contents:
Part 1.Examiners and supervisors -- 1.Examiners: what are they looking for? -- 2.Working with your supervisor -- Part 2.Generating and developing original ideas -- 3.What activities suit you best? -- 4.Types of research -- 5.What interests you most? -- 6.Generating your own ideas 1: Using trigger questions -- 7.Generating your own ideas 2: Perspectives and levels -- 8.Developing your own ideas 1: casual relations -- 9.;Developing your ideas 2: conceptual relations -- 10.Original questions and hypotheses 1: Using analogies -- 11.Original questions and hypotheses 2: working with your structures -- Part 3: Deciding on your project -- 12.Searching the literature 1: knowing what to look for -- 13.Searching the literature 2: How to search -- 14.Choosing the topic -- Part 4.Organising your work -- 15.Planning your research -- 16.Managing your time -- 17.Your retrieval system -- 18.Reading -- 19.Note-taking -- Part 5.Doing your research -- 20.Qualitative and quantitative research -- 21.Secondary sources -- 22.Primary sources 1: quantitative research -- 23.Primary sources 2: Designing and distributing your questionnaire -- 24.Primary sources 3: Qualitative research - interviews and focus groups -- 25.Primary sources 4: qualitative research - Case studies and observations -- Part 6.Planning your dissertation -- 26.The main components and introduction -- 27.The literature review -- 28.Research methods, findings, conclusion and appendices -- Part 7.Organising your thinking -- 29.Developing consistent arguments 1: the components -- 30.Developing consistent arguments 2: the connections -- 31.Using evidence 1: Describing it -- 32.Using evidence 2: Drawing inferences -- 33.Using evidence 3:Creating casual connections -- 34.Using language 1:Clarity - jargon -- 35.Using language 2: Clarity - manipulative words -- 36.Using language 3: Consistency -- Part 8.Writing dissertation -- 37.The first draft -- 38.Style 1: Finding your own voice -- 39.Style 2: Simplicity and economy -- Part 9.Plagiarism. referencing and bibliographies -- 40.Plagiarism -- 41.Referencing and bibliographies -- Part 10.Editing -- 42.Revision 1: The structure -- 43.Revision 2: the content.
Summary: This work teaches students how to generate their own ideas and develop them into original research projects. Using examples from all disciplines, it teaches students how to construct arguments and use evidence and language consistently.
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Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1.Examiners and supervisors -- 1.Examiners: what are they looking for? -- 2.Working with your supervisor -- Part 2.Generating and developing original ideas -- 3.What activities suit you best? -- 4.Types of research -- 5.What interests you most? -- 6.Generating your own ideas 1: Using trigger questions -- 7.Generating your own ideas 2: Perspectives and levels -- 8.Developing your own ideas 1: casual relations -- 9.;Developing your ideas 2: conceptual relations -- 10.Original questions and hypotheses 1: Using analogies -- 11.Original questions and hypotheses 2: working with your structures -- Part 3: Deciding on your project -- 12.Searching the literature 1: knowing what to look for -- 13.Searching the literature 2: How to search -- 14.Choosing the topic -- Part 4.Organising your work -- 15.Planning your research -- 16.Managing your time -- 17.Your retrieval system -- 18.Reading -- 19.Note-taking -- Part 5.Doing your research -- 20.Qualitative and quantitative research -- 21.Secondary sources -- 22.Primary sources 1: quantitative research -- 23.Primary sources 2: Designing and distributing your questionnaire -- 24.Primary sources 3: Qualitative research - interviews and focus groups -- 25.Primary sources 4: qualitative research - Case studies and observations -- Part 6.Planning your dissertation -- 26.The main components and introduction -- 27.The literature review -- 28.Research methods, findings, conclusion and appendices -- Part 7.Organising your thinking -- 29.Developing consistent arguments 1: the components -- 30.Developing consistent arguments 2: the connections -- 31.Using evidence 1: Describing it -- 32.Using evidence 2: Drawing inferences -- 33.Using evidence 3:Creating casual connections -- 34.Using language 1:Clarity - jargon -- 35.Using language 2: Clarity - manipulative words -- 36.Using language 3: Consistency -- Part 8.Writing dissertation -- 37.The first draft -- 38.Style 1: Finding your own voice -- 39.Style 2: Simplicity and economy -- Part 9.Plagiarism. referencing and bibliographies -- 40.Plagiarism -- 41.Referencing and bibliographies -- Part 10.Editing -- 42.Revision 1: The structure -- 43.Revision 2: the content.

This work teaches students how to generate their own ideas and develop them into original research projects. Using examples from all disciplines, it teaches students how to construct arguments and use evidence and language consistently.

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