Doing Your Masters Dissertation

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Chris Hart - University of Chester, UK
SAGE Study Skills Series
Doing Your Masters Dissertation
January 2005 | 496 pages | Sage UK
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Description

Doing Your Masters Dissertation is a practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level. It adopts a well-structured and logical approach, and takes the student through all the stages necessary to complete their research and write a successful dissertation.

Key features of the book include:

· Step-by-step coverage - sections on choosing a topic, research design, methodology and presenting data and writing up.

· An up-to-date list of key reference materials, both printed and electronic

· Advice on ethical guidelines

· Information on assessment criteria

· Student-focused throughout with a broad range of worked examples and guidelines for further reading

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this textbook is an essential resource for postgraduate students across the social sciences required to complete a Masters dissertation.

Contents

PART ONE: ESSENTIAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR DISSERTATION

  • What Is a Masters?
  • Managing Your Transitition to Masters
  • Finding and Formulating Your Topic
  • Imagining Your Dissertation
  • Choosing Which Type of Dissertation to Do
  • Searching and Reviewing the Literature

PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

  • Methodological Assumptions and Beliefs
  • Methodological Choices And Consequences
  • Research Ethics and Standards
  • Research Design

PART THREE: DOING THE WRITING

  • Writing Your Research Proposal
  • Writing Your Dissertation

Description

Doing Your Masters Dissertation is a practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level. It adopts a well-structured and logical approach, and takes the student through all the stages necessary to complete their research and write a successful dissertation.

Key features of the book include:

· Step-by-step coverage - sections on choosing a topic, research design, methodology and presenting data and writing up.

· An up-to-date list of key reference materials, both printed and electronic

· Advice on ethical guidelines

· Information on assessment criteria

· Student-focused throughout with a broad range of worked examples and guidelines for further reading

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this textbook is an essential resource for postgraduate students across the social sciences required to complete a Masters dissertation.

Contents

PART ONE: ESSENTIAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR DISSERTATION

  • What Is a Masters?
  • Managing Your Transitition to Masters
  • Finding and Formulating Your Topic
  • Imagining Your Dissertation
  • Choosing Which Type of Dissertation to Do
  • Searching and Reviewing the Literature

PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

  • Methodological Assumptions and Beliefs
  • Methodological Choices And Consequences
  • Research Ethics and Standards
  • Research Design

PART THREE: DOING THE WRITING

  • Writing Your Research Proposal
  • Writing Your Dissertation
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Doing Your Masters Dissertation

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January 2005 | 496 pages | Sage UK

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Doing Your Masters Dissertation is a practical and comprehensive guide to researching, preparing and writing a dissertation at Masters level. It adopts a well-structured and logical approach, and takes the student through all the stages necessary to complete their research and write a successful dissertation.

Key features of the book include:

· Step-by-step coverage - sections on choosing a topic, research design, methodology and presenting data and writing up.

· An up-to-date list of key reference materials, both printed and electronic

· Advice on ethical guidelines

· Information on assessment criteria

· Student-focused throughout with a broad range of worked examples and guidelines for further reading

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, this textbook is an essential resource for postgraduate students across the social sciences required to complete a Masters dissertation.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: ESSENTIAL PREPARATION FOR YOUR DISSERTATION
  • What Is a Masters?
  • Managing Your Transitition to Masters
  • Finding and Formulating Your Topic
  • Imagining Your Dissertation
  • Choosing Which Type of Dissertation to Do
  • Searching and Reviewing the Literature
  • PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
  • Methodological Assumptions and Beliefs
  • Methodological Choices And Consequences
  • Research Ethics and Standards
  • Research Design
  • PART THREE: DOING THE WRITING
  • Writing Your Research Proposal
  • Writing Your Dissertation

Recent Product Reviews:

Good additional text book that assists students in a structured and achievable way through their dissertation.
Mr Martin Murchie, School of Health & Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
Fantastic
Mr Gus Lee, Education Department (Trinity Road), Bradford College
Very informative text.Ideal for this module
Mr BENJAMIN STANFIELD-DAVIES, Faculty of Health & Social Care, London South Bank University
This book is essential reading for masters students doing their dissertation. It is clearly laid out, and gives students a good idea of what a masters level dissertation involves. However, it is also good at making that level of work appear very accessible. For many of our students this is their first piece of independent research, and this book is an excellent resource to accompany them on that journey. The text takes the student from the very beginning of the project (thinking about where a masters dissertation might fit in their life, and what topic to choose) right through to the end where it helps to think through what the narrative argument will be, and how to shape the whole piece into a coherent whole. The diagrams are helpful, and very useful in teaching. The book has been particularly useful when accompanied by an engaged teaching practice. For many of our students, who are engaging in politicised research, this text holds words of caution, but alongside the encouragement and support of their tutors, it does not put them off engaging in important political enquiry.
Dr Fenella Porter, Department of Labour Studies, Ruskin College Oxford
A very comprehensive and yet accessible guide for students. It is a practical book that helps to break the enormous task into achievable chunks.
Miss Alison Woolf, School of Education and Community, Glyndwr University

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