How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation provides a
straight-talking, easy-to-navigate, and reassuring guide to support
final-year social science undergraduates. Uniquely shaped by real
social science undergraduates from a range of institutions, the
book includes their advice to help you through with what can be a
daunting, but rewarding stage of your degree. From the look and
feel of the book, to the development of the chapter content and the
advice it provides, students have been involved at every stage of
the book's development to ensure it is focused on what's important
to you. Expert advice from real supervisors across the subject
disciplines in the 'Working with your supervisor' feature also
helps you to make the most of research supervision, and learn from
the experience of real researchers in your chosen field. By
providing anecdotes, words of wisdom, scenarios, or simply
reminders, hints, and tips on how best to prepare for meetings, and
communicate effectively, How to do your Social Research Project or
Dissertation is the most complete guide to facilitate the
student-supervisor working relationship. Dedicated chapters cover
all the typical stages of a research project or dissertation in the
social sciences, while their carefully constructed structure allows
you to quickly and efficiently navigate the content. Throughout the
book, you'll focus on three key questions: 'What do I need to
know?', 'What do I need to think about?' and 'What do I need to
do?'. In so doing, each chapter gives you a clear and direct
checklist of actions as you progress through your dissertation or
research project, keeping you organized, motivated, and confident.
The book's online resources include a wealth of free-to-access
materials, including: Author videos - Additional advice around key
challenges for each chapter, including developing a research idea,
managing your time, and writing up your dissertation. Supervision
guidance Advice and tips on how to approach your supervision
meetings, including tasks to help you plan for meetings and to
build a productive relationship with your supervisor. Doing
academic presentations Support with planning and delivering
presentations, including tips on what a dissertation presentation
might include, as well as author videos showing examples of a good
and bad presentations. _ Dissertation templates Templates for
dissertations, showing how dissertations might look different
depending on which theoretical and methodological approaches you
use. This includes notes on chapter content and tips on
dissertation structure. Research plan templates Templates for you
to use for planning your project, including helping you to get
started and complete the dissertation, and to manage your time
using key milestones and recommended timescales and targets.
Guidance on developing and designing your research question - A set
of questions divided into categories and designed to help you
formulate ideas, develop your thinking, set your research
questions, help you later on in the process to consolidate your
argument and consider the contribution of your work. Delve Even
Deeper Even more Delve Deeper recommendations and research
suggestions, including a list of freely available data sets, links
and resources to help you understand SPSS and NVivo processes and
tools, analysis tools and help for specific research methods, and
guidance on using vlogs, blogs, and other public resources, as well
as using social media for your research. Bad, better, and best
examples of literature reviews, questionnaires, interview
questions, and observation plans Examples of each of these key
elements of your project deliberately designed to demonstrate how
you can improve your work, and highlighted with annotations to help
you gain a deeper understanding of how best to approach these
stages of your project. Examples of research proposals Examples of
research proposals for different social sciences to give you that
extra support and an idea of what to expect. Here you will find
tips on how to build a proposal and consider how this is useful for
planning the dissertation. What do I need to think about? and What
do I need to do? checklists digital versions of the end-of-chapter
checklists for you to download and use.
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