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.