Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success (SAGE Study Skills Series) - Hardcover

Walliman, Nicholas Stephen Robert

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9780761941392: Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success (SAGE Study Skills Series)

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ISBN 10: 0761941398 ISBN 13: 9780761941392

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004

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′This book is one of the most helpful I have seen in terms of helping undergraduate students understand the methods and principles involved in carrying out research for the final dissertation which many degree courses require. In essence it is a complete guide, covering every aspect of the process, outlining each step from selecting a theme to final writing and submission′ -ESCalate

Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide for Success is a practical step-by-step guide to managing and developing a successful undergraduate project.

Nicholas Walliman offers a comprehensive and easy to follow guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of doing a dissertation. This book provides a clear and structured explanation of how to undertake a project, helping readers to identify and acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry out the research and writing.

This practical and concise book provides:

- Advice for preparing a project and choosing a topic

- Guidelines for writing a project proposal and producing a literature review

- Advice on choosing and implementing appropriate methodology

- An awareness of ethical issues

- Methods of data collection and analysis

- Information for writing-up the report

- Interdisciplinary case-studies and `real-life′ examples to illustrate key themes

This book is a compact, easy-to-read guide to all the essential facets of dissertation writing at undergraduate level. Written in a lively and engaging manner, its use of humorous illustrations, simple exercises and useful guides to further reading, make it an attractive handbook for students across the social sciences.

Written by an experienced lecturer and writer, this book is a`must-have′ for a any student anxious to maximize their success in dissertation writing.

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About the Author

After twenty years in architectural practice in Scotland, England and Switzerland designing a wide range of buildings, industrial, commercial, residential, and renovating and restoring historic buildings, I returned to academic activities when I embarked on a Ph.D. at Oxford Brookes University.

My university teaching and examining experience has been at all levels, with the preponderance at postgraduate level. I have supervised to successful completion twenty Ph.D. students and two MPhils, 1 KTP, and examined 13 Ph.D. candidates. I have published several popular textbooks and guides on construction aspects and on how to do research for students and practitioners and how to write Ph.D. theses, Masters and Undergraduate dissertations.

As Senior Researcher, Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development – Architectural Engineering Group, my research was based mainly on the technology of building construction - innovative, existing and historic, on vernacular architecture, and issues regarding accessibility in buildings and surroundings. My published papers and reports are read internationally and have been presented at international conferences.