How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: EXAMINERS AND SUPERVISORS.- 1. Examiners – What Are They Looking For?.- 2. Working With Your Supervisor.- PART II: GENERATING AND DEVELOPING ORIGINAL IDEAS.- 3. What Activities Suit You Best?.- 4. Types of Research.- 5. What Interests You Most?.- 6. Generating Your Own Ideas 1: Using Trigger Questions.- 7. Generating Your Own Ideas 2: Perspectives and Levels.- 8. Developing Your Ideas 1: Causal Relations.- 9. Developing Your Ideas 2: Conceptual Relations.- 10. Original Questions and Hypotheses 1: Using Analogies.- 11. Original Questions and Hypotheses 2: Working With Your Structures.- PART III: DECIDING ON YOUR PROJECT.- 12. Searching the Literature 1: Knowing What to Look For.- 13. Searching the Literature 2: How to Search.- 14. Choosing the Topic 1: Feasibility.- 15. Choosing the Topic 2: Ethical Issues.- PART IV: ORGANISING YOUR WORK.- 16. Planning Your Research.- 17. Managing Your Time.- 18. Your Retrieval System.- 19. Reading.- 20. Note-taking.- PART V: DOING YOUR RESEARCH.- 21. Qualitative and Quantitative Research.- 22. Secondary Sources.- 23. Primary Sources 1: Quantitative Research.- 24. Primary Sources 2: Designing and Distributing Your Questionnaire.- 25. Primary Sources 3: Qualitative Research – Interviews and Focus Groups.- 26. Primary Sources 4: Qualitative Research – Case Studies and Observations.- PART VI: PLANNING YOUR DISSERTATION.- 27. The Main Components and Introduction.- 28. The Literature Review.- 29. Research Methods, Findings, Conclusions and Appendices.- PART VII: ORGANISING YOUR THINKING.- 30. Developing Consistent Arguments 1: The Components.- 31. Developing Consistent Arguments 2: The Connections.- 32. Using Evidence 1: Describing It.- 33. Using Evidence 2: Drawing Inferences.- 34. Using Evidence 3: Creating Causal Connections.- 35. Using Language 1: Clarity Jargon.- 36. Using Language 2: Clarity Manipulative Words.- 37. Using Language 3: Consistency.- PART VIII: WRITING YOUR DISSERTATION.- 38. The First Draft.- 39. Style 1: Finding Your Own Voice.- 40. Style 2: Simplicity and Economy.- PART IX: PLAGIARISM, REFERENCING AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES.- 41. Plagiarism.- 42. Referencing and Bibliographies.- PART X: EDITING.- 43. Revision 1: The Structure.- 44. Revision 2: The Content.- PART XI: PRESENTING YOUR WORK.- 45. Oral Presentations.- 46. Poster Presentations.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.