Description
Writing a thesis : What is expected of a student who is writing a thesis – The format of a thesis – The research proposal – The research question and literature review – Ethical questions – Record keeping and thesis drafts – Writing definitions – The page – Headings – Quotations, cross references and footnotes – Overall layout: appendices and table of contents – Figures, tables, illustrations and abbreviations – Brief notes on style – Proofreading – Computing – Preparing the references – Avoiding sexist language – The APA and MLA referencing systems – How to reference the Internet – Writing the abstract – Writing the introduction and conclusions – Defending a thesis: some tips – Research methods : Historical and documentary methods – Case studies – Notes on questionnaire writing – The interview – Triangulation – Validity and reliability – Models, and the so called ‘relativity of truth’ – Hypotheses – Probability, coincidence, and chance – The internet : Real essentials of computing – Critical evaluation of non-internet sources – Evaluating web-sources – Searching the web – A feel for statistics : Essential concepts underlying the calculations – Statistics beyond the absolute basics.
