Succeeding with your master’s dissertation: a step-by-step handbook

✍ Scribed by Biggam, John

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Series: Open UP study skills
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Of key pointsChapter 8: Research Methods; What's it all about?; Research strategy; Introduction; Case study; Survey; Ethnography; Experimental research; Historical research; Action research; Grounded theory; Quantitative vs qualitative research; Sampling techniques; Positivism and phenomenology; Justifying your research strategy; The question of reliability (and validity); Data collection; Preparation, preparation, preparation; What and why?; Framework for data analysis; Limitations and potential problems; Further reading; Summary of key points; Chapter 9: Writing up your findings.

Succeeding with your Master's Dissertation is a step-by-step guide to completing your Master's dissertation. Read more...

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Succeeding with your Master's Dissertation is a step-by - step guide to completing your Master's dissertation. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Succeeding with your Master's Dissertation
Succeeding with Your Master's Dissertation
Praise Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
A Master's dissertation: what is it?
So, what skills do you need to succeed?
Watch your words!
How to use this book
Summary of key points
Chapter 2: Developing your i-skills
What are i-skills?
Information needs
Organizing skills
Literature search techniques
Select topic
Define terms
Set boundaries
Select sources
Analyse sources
Google it!
University library databases
Using social media in research
Speed reading. Critiquing skillsCommunication skills and mind-mapping
Further reading
Summary of key points
Chapter 3: Referencing and plagiarism
What is referencing?
Referencing in the body of your dissertation
Using Latin abbreviations and terms
Creating a reference list
Plagiarism
What counts as plagiarism?
What if you are accused of plagiarism?
Further reading
Summary of key points
Chapter 4: Preparing for your dissertation
Putting together your research proposal
Research proposal: working title
Research proposal: background information
Research proposal: overall research aim. Research proposal: specific research objectivesResearch proposal: research methods
Research proposal: setting a timescale
Research proposal: ethics
Producing a dissertation template
Supervisor meetings
Supervisor and student: roles and responsibilities
An emotional journey
Further reading
Summary of key points
Chapter 5: The dissertation Introduction
The general structure of the Introduction
Background
Research focus (revisited)
Overall research aim and individual research objectives
Value of your research
A further suggestion
Summary of key points. Chapter 6: The Literature ReviewFocus on your research objectives
Structuring your Literature Review
Description vs critical evaluation
Learning theory and your dissertation
Good grammar
Further reading
Summary of key points
Chapter 7: Systematic reviews
What is a systematic review?
The stages of a systematic review
Stage 1: Determine review objective/question
Stage 2: The literature search process
Stage 3: What literature was selected (and why)?
Stage 4: Pool studies
Stage 5: Place findings in context
AMSTAR: a checklist for systematic reviews
Further reading.

✦ Subjects

Academic writing.;Dissertations, Academic;Style manuals.;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric;REFERENCE / Writing Skills;Dissertations, Academic.;Academic writing;Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Dissertations, Academic;Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Report writing;Handbooks, manuals, etc.