Writing Your Thesis, 2nd Edition

Author: Paul Oliver | 2008 | epub | 780 KB

This new edition is designed to help graduate and research students with the process, preparation, writing, and examination of their theses. Many students are able to design their program 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 Paul Oliver 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
• 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; developing strategies for an oral examination, as well as suggested further reading for each chapter.

The book is essential reading for students who are completing theses on 'taught' Masters programs, M.Phil. and Ph.D. students and for those working on the newer 'taught' doctoral programs.

Dr Paul Oliver is a principal lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. He has wide experience of teaching courses on research methods at postgraduate level, and thesis supervision for Masters, Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees. He has published in the fields of education, philosophy and comparative religion.