Just starting your Masters? Worried about your dissertation? This book is an indispensible guide to writing a successful Masters dissertation. The book begins by addressing issues you'll face in the early stages of writing a dissertation such as deciding on what to research planning your project & searching for literature online. It then guides you through different aspects of carrying out your research & writing up helping you to:
- discuss the literature
- formulate research questions
- choose one or more methods
- analyse your findings
- build your argument
- write the introduction & the conclusion
- edit & reference. The book offers guidance that other books often miss from dealing with emotional blocks to ways of identifying your strengths & weaknesses & improving your writing. It addresses the social aspects of the writing process such as choosing & working with an advisor using social media & forming student work groups for added help & inspiration. Each chapter ends with an action plan which is a resource section that features exercises & reflection questions designed to help you apply what you've read to your own work.