Your undergraduate dissertation : the essential guide for success /
Nicholas Walliman
- 2nd edition.
- Los Angeles : SAGE, c2014.
- xiv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Sage study skills .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What′s It All For? -- What Types of Studies are Suitable for a Dissertation? -- What Will It Be About? -- How Do I Get Started? -- What′s All This about Philosophy? -- How Do I Write a Proposal? -- What About Working and Planning My Time? -- How Can I Find and Review the Literature? -- How Can I Manage All the Notes? -- What′s All This about Ethics? -- What Sorts of Data Will I Find? -- How Do I Collect Data? -- How Do I Analyse Quantitative Data? -- How Do I Analyse Qualitative Data? -- Why Do I Need Arguments? -- How Can I Manage Such a Long Piece of Writing? -- What About Referencing? -- How Can I Make My Work Look Interesting and Easy to Read? -- Who Else Might Be Interested in My Writing? -- References -- Index.
This guide to all the essential facets of dissertation writing at undergraduate level provides advice for preparing a project and choosing a topic, and guidelines for writing a project proposal and producing a literature review.