Excellent Dissertations!
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2011
154 pages
978-0-335-23863-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a must for every student with a dissertation to do. It is a lively, concise, and to-the-point guide, which will steer you through the entire process.
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Peter Levin
Excellent Dissertations!
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Producing a dissertation - Read this first!
- Introduction
- Part 1 Preliminaries
- 1 Formal requirements and arrangements
- 2 Pleasing the examiners
- 3 You and your supervisor
- Part 2 Getting started
- 4 The 'twin track': your project and your dissertation
- 5 Project and dissertation: exploring the literature
- 6 Project: making a shortlist of possible subjects
- 7 Project: choosing your preferred subject
- 8 Dissertation: choosing your title
- 9 Project: methodology
- 10 Project: materials
- 11 Project and dissertation: time management and planning
- Part 3 The 'middle period'
- 12 Keeping everything under control
- 13 Project: being your own manager
- 14 Dissertation: creating your literature review
- 15 Project and dissertation: making use of quotations
- 16 Dissertation: developing your outline
- Part 4 The 'end game'
- 17 The challenge to complete
- 18 Project: concluding your work
- 19 Dissertation: producing your fist draft and finalizing your outline
- 20 Dissertation: improving your draft
- 21 Dissertation: conforming to good academic practice
- 22 Avoiding plagiarism
- 23 Dissertation: final editing
- Notes and references
- Acknowledgments
- Back cover
