Succeeding with your Master's Dissertation: A Practical Step-by-step Handbook
John Biggam

ISBN: 0335227198,
Division: Open University Press,
Price: £18.99,
Pub Date: APR-08,

Pages: 208
Edition: 01
Format: Paperback

Availability: Not Yet Published


Description

Completing a Master?s dissertation can be a difficult task at the best of times. If you are about to start a Master?s dissertation then this book is essential reading. Succeeding with your Master?s Dissertation provides detailed guidance at every level of the dissertation process, from producing an initial research proposal, to structuring and writing the key chapters that form the mainstay of a Master?s dissertation, through to addressing practical issues such as plagiarism and making the most of a marking scheme. A vital feature of this masterful book is the use of worked examples, to illustrate good practices to adopt and, equally important, bad practices to avoid.

If you are not sure how to clarify your research objectives, if you want advice on how to start your dissertation, to know the difference between description and critical evaluation and gain marks when writing your Literature Review by placing emphasis on the latter and not the former, to understand how to write a convincing chapter on your Research Methods and differentiate between phenomenology and positivism, write-up your findings in a simple but effective way, provide cyclical closure to your research, put together a synopsis of your work via an abstract template ? in effect if you want to avoid common mistakes repeated by dissertation students and so produce a successful dissertation, then this book is for you.

Author Biography

Dr John Biggam is a lecturer in I.T. at Glasgow Caledonian University and has many years of experience in teaching Research Methods and supervising dissertation students.


Table of Contents

1.Introduction
2.Preparing for your dissertation
3.The dissertation introduction
4.The literature review
5.Research methods
6.Writing up your findings
7.Concluding your dissertation
8.Finally: writing the abstract
9.Practical issues
10.Summary of good practice to adopt and bad practice to avoid



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