Your Undergraduate Dissertation
The Essential Guide for Success
- Nicholas Walliman - Oxford Brookes University, UK
Student Success
This book takes you through each stage of your dissertation, answering questions including:
- How do I choose an appropriate topic for my dissertation?
- How do I write a research proposal?
- What's a literature review, how do I conduct it and how do I write it up?
- How can I ensure I'm an ethical researcher?
- What methods of data collection are appropriate for my research question?
- Once I have collected my data, what do I do?
- What's the best structure for my dissertation?
Full of examples from real student projects, interdisciplinary case studies and illustrated with cartoons to make you smile along the way, this book will tell you all you need to know to write a brilliant dissertation.
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This book would support my students to get to grips with their dissertation.
This is a brilliant book aimed at the students. I am going to recommend the book to the library and have already shown the book to the students.
The book is an easy straight- through read or a good one to have on stand by for a quick dip into when a specific topic is required. It supports all the key ideas with useful chapter summaries and key texts to explore issues in greater depth. I'm not sure if the illustrations add much value to the work, but I think the chapter summaries are great and will certainly incorporate them into my delivery for equine undergraduate and Masters students.
A well written text for most master degree students. A must-to-have copy. Excellent examples to support the academic writing process.
This book is an outstanding text for those who are nervous about their dissertation. The students are guided through the clear text in order to make the most of the dissertation process.
An invaluable resource for undergraduate students who are new to undertaking a research project. It is accessible - and uses humour to help get the points across. Highly recommended for my final year undergraduate students!
A very useful guide for students undertaking their dissertations
Very helpful resoured to our undergraduate Social Policy students - clear and informative
Informally written to engage with the new researcher and make it less daunting; well laid out with detailed contents section to support students in finding the information they need. Very helpful, helps with terminology – useful whether embarking on qualitative or quantitative research. Good reading lists and particularly like the focused signposting in some of these although I would have liked to see references to www resources.
A user friendly step by step approach on how to manage a dissertation
