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What is included with this book?
| Academic Research: An Overview | |
| Conducting Academic Research | |
| The Differences between a Thesis and a Dissertation | |
| Developing Independence as a Researcher and Finding your Voice | |
| Meeting the Challenges of Academic Research | |
| Intellectual Challenges | |
| Emotional Challenges | |
| Motivational Challenges | |
| Organisational Challenges | |
| Becoming a Member of an Academic Community | |
| Attending Research Seminars and Conferences | |
| Networking in Person and on the Internet | |
| Creating a Support Group | |
| Choosing and Working with Your Supervisor | |
| Preparing to Write | |
| Familiarity with Your School's Rules & Regulations | |
| Ethical Considerations | |
| Deciding on a Research Topic | |
| Identifying a Gap in the Literature | |
| Generating Research Questions and Research Hypotheses | |
| Deciding on the Research Approach | |
| Quantitative Approaches | |
| Qualitative Approaches | |
| Mixed-methods Approaches | |
| Disciplinary and Subject Variations | |
| Clear and Effective Writing | |
| Reading and Planning before You Write | |
| Sources of Information | |
| Selecting Appropriate Information | |
| Note-taking | |
| The Style of Academic Writing | |
| Clarity | |
| Level of Formality | |
| Eliminating Biased Language | |
| Supporting Your Claims | |
| Acknowledging Alternative Perspectives | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Summarising and Concluding Individual Chapters | |
| The Mechanics of Academic Writing | |
| Capitalization & Punctuation | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Headings | |
| Quotations | |
| Tables | |
| Figures | |
| Referencing | |
| Appendices | |
| The Research Project | |
| Abstract | |
| The Introduction | |
| The Background of the Issue | |
| Statement of the Problem | |
| Purposes of the Study | |
| Significance of the Study | |
| Theoretical Perspective | |
| The Audience for the Study | |
| Delimitations | |
| The Literature Review | |
| What to Review | |
| How to Review Published Papers and Books | |
| Synthesizing and Summarizing Major Sections | |
| Presenting the Gap in the Literature | |
| Stating the Major Purposes of the Study | |
| Stating Research Questions and Research Hypotheses | |
| Methodology | |
| Research Participants | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Procedures | |
| Analytical Approach | |
| Results | |
| Organizing the Results | |
| Summarizing the Results | |
| Using Tables and Graphs to Present Results | |
| Discussion | |
| Relating Your Results to Previous Research | |
| The Theoretical Consequences of Your Results | |
| How Your Results Have Resolved the Problem You Identified | |
| New Contributions of Your Study | |
| Conclusions | |
| Summarizing Your Findings | |
| Limitations of the Study | |
| Suggestions for Future Research | |
| Final Conclusions | |
| The Viva (oral examination | |
| What is a Viva and What is its Purpose? | |
| How Does the Viva Work? | |
| Choosing your Examiner(s) | |
| Preparing for the Viva | |
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| Strategies for Success | |
| Appendices | |
| Checklists | |
| Answer Key to Tasks | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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