How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: EXAMINERS AND SUPERVISORS
1. The Dissertation: What Is It, and What is Your Role?
2. The Dissertation: Your Audience â" Supervisors and Examiners
PART II: GENERATING AND DEVELOPING ORIGINAL IDEAS
3. What Activities Suit You Best?
4. Types of Research
5. What Interests You Most?
6. Generating Ideas: How to Come Up with New Ideas and Fresh Perspectives
7. Developing Your Ideas: How to Structure Your Thinking
8. Refining Your Ideas: How to Test Your Thinking
PART III: DECIDING ON YOUR PROJECT
9. Academic Sources: Books, Articles and Literature. Knowing What to Look For
10. Academic Sources: Books, Articles and Literature. How to Search
11. Choosing the Topic: Making Sure Itâs Manageable
12. Choosing the Topic: What are Research Ethics, and Why Are They Important?
PART IV: ORGANISING YOUR WORK
13. Planning Your Research
14. Managing Your Time
15. Your Retrieval System
16. Reading
17. Note-taking
18. Plagiarism
PART V: DOING YOUR RESEARCH
19. Research Types
20. Secondary Sources
21. Quantitative Research
22. Qualitative Research
PART VI: PLANNING YOUR DISSERTATION
23. The Main Components and Introduction
24. The Literature Review
25. Research Methods, Findings, Conclusions and Appendices
PART VII: ORGANISING YOUR THINKING
26. Components of a Consistent Argument
27. Connections Within a Consistent Argument
28. Using Evidence: How to Describe It
29. Using Evidence: How to Make Sense of It
30. Using Evidence â" How to Avoid Mistakes
31. Communicating Clearly
PART VIII: WRITING YOUR DISSERTATION
32. The First Draft
33. Finding Your Own Voice
34. Writing With Style and Simplicity
35. Referencing and Bibliographies
PART IX: EDITING
36. Editing Your Structure
37. Editing Your Content
PART X: PRESENTING YOUR WORK
38. Oral Presentations
39. Poster Presentations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index