Writing your thesis:
This new edition is designed to help postgraduate and research students with the process, preparation, writing and examination of their thesis. Many students are able to design their programme of research and to collect the data, but they can find it more difficult to transform their data into a the...
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This new edition is designed to help postgraduate and research students with the process, preparation, writing and examination of their thesis. Many students are able to design their programme of research and to collect the data, but they can find it more difficult to transform their data into a thesis. Using his extensive experience as a successful thesis supervisor, the author outlines: the purpose of the thesis and what it should achieve; strategies for organizing your work as you write your thesis; how to the incorporate a theoretical perspective; sound techniques of academic writing; how to benefit from your supervisors' experience; what to do about publishing preliminary findings; and tips on preparing for the oral examination.This updated edition contains additional material on the writing of shorter doctoral theses; writing about ethical issues; presenting qualitative data, and developing strategies for an oral examination. The book is essential reading for students who are completing theses on 'taught' Masters programmes, M.Phil. and Ph.D. students and for those working on the newer 'taught' doctoral programmes. |
| Umfang: | VIII, 174 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781412946896 |
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Acknowledgements
ix
PARTI THE PROCESS OF ACADEMIC WRITING
1
1
The research thesis
3
Getting the most out of yourself
-
why do you want to
write a research thesis?
3
The nature and varieties of a research thesis
4
Shorter doctoral theses
6
Similarities and differences between a masters and
a doctoral thesis
6
The thesis as research training
8
The characteristics of a good thesis
10
Academic writing as a genre
12
General university requirements for a thesis
14
Consulting research theses
15
2
The intellectual content of the thesis
17
The thesis as an original contribution to knowledge
17
The different kinds of data and evidence which can be
included in a thesis
18
Working within a paradigm and incorporating a
theoretical perspective
22
The relationship between ontology, epistemology
and methodology
23
Testing a hypothesis or developing a theory
25
Exercising caution in making truth claims
26
Presenting alternative viewpoints
27
Developing a coherent argument
28
Intellectual content of a shorter thesis
28
3
Organizing your work
31
Who is the audience for your thesis?
31
The length of the thesis and of individual chapters
32
Practical matters
-
typing and organizing the developing thesis
34
Self-imposed writing targets
35
VÍ
Writing Your
Thesis
Time management and maintaining progress
36
Accumulating your list of references
38
The order of writing the thesis
39
The role of the supervisor
42
The functions of your supervisor or supervisory team
42
Selecting a supervisor or being allocated one
43
Appreciating your supervisor s perspective
44
Working well with your supervisor
45
What to do if you are unhappy with your supervisor
46
Negotiating targets and deadlines
47
Arranging a pattern of tutorials
48
Advice on methodology and design
49
Advice on structuring the thesis
49
Reading sections of the thesis as it is written
51
Selecting the team of examiners for the
viva voce
52
Grammar, punctuation and conventions of academic writing
54
First person or third person?
54
Gender-neutral language
56
Layout for quotations
57
The Harvard system of referencing
58
Referencing websites
62
Use of notes and footnotes
62
Non-English terms and expressions
63
English and American spellings
64
Abbreviations
64
Italicizing and capitalization
65
The use of hyphens, dashes, numerals and the apostrophe
65
Consistency, consistency and, above all, consistency!
66
Layout of the thesis
68
Page layout
68
Use of headings, subheadings and titles
69
Frequency of quotations
70
Use of bullet points and formatting
71
Including tables and figures in the thesis
72
Listing references and including a bibliography
73
The use of appendices
75
Consistency, consistency and starting as you mean to go on
76
PART
2
WRITING YOUR THESIS
79
7
The preliminary pages and the introduction
81
Title page, abstract and contents
81
Contents
VII
Tables, figures,
abbreviations, key terms and acknowledgements
83
Why is this particular topic being researched?
84
What is the significance of the topic?
85
Explaining the context of the research
85
The background of the researcher
86
Where is the research being conducted and why?
87
The research aims
88
The research objectives
90
8
The literature review
92
The purpose of the literature review
92
Style of writing for the literature review
94
Subdividing the available literature
95
Dealing with an apparent lack of relevant literature
96
Making a selection from a wide variety of literature
98
Employing a range of literature
99
Literature from the Internet
100
How old may the literature be?
101
9
Methodology
103
The relationship between epistemology and methodology
103
Relating choice of methodology to the aims of the thesis
105
The overall research design
106
The selection of the sample
108
The process by which the data is collected 111
Data analysis
112
Strengths and limitations of the methodology
114
Writing about ethical issues
115
Should the methodology have been different?
118
Ethical justifications of research
118
10
The data analysis chapters
122
Defining a list of chapter headings
122
Selection from the data
123
Writing about the analysis of qualitative data
124
Presenting qualitative data
125
Writing about the analysis of quantitative data
128
Presenting quantitative data
129
Placing sample data in the appendices
131
11
The conclusion
133
Drawing together the threads of the argument
133
Examining whether the aims have been achieved
133
Emphasizing the contribution to knowledge
134
Developing practical recommendations
135
Limitations of the thesis
136
VÎii
Writing YourThesis
Possibilities for further research
137
A reflexive account of the research process
138
Writing the abstract
140
12
Completing the thesis
143
Producing the first complete draft
143
Checking for coherence and internal consistency
144
Proofreading
145
Checks to be made by the supervisory team
147
Checks to be made by supervisors, and those to be made
by students
148
Temporary binding
149
Procedure for submitting the thesis
149
13
Publishing findings during preparation of the thesis
151
Advantages and disadvantages
151
Selecting an element of the findings
153
Selecting a suitable academic journal
154
Following style notes
155
The refereeing process
155
Checking upon the progress of your article
156
14
The oral examination
158
The role of your supervisor
158
The role of the internal and external examiners
159
Strategies for rereading the thesis
159
Anticipating questions
160
The structure of the viva
162
Coping strategies for questions
163
Defending the thesis
164
Overall strategy for the viva
165
Possible results of the viva
168
References and Further Reading
170
Index
173
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