Writing the successful thesis and dissertation : entering the conversation /

A complete, step-by-step, practical overview of the process of writing successful theses and dissertations Every year thousands of graduate students face the daunting-sometimes terrifying- challenge of writing a thesis or dissertation. But most of them have received little or no instruction on doing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Irene L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2006.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : writing a thesis or dissertation : an overview of the process
  • 1. Getting started
  • 2. So what? : discovering possibilities
  • 3. proposal as an argument : a genre approach to the proposal
  • 4. Mapping texts : the reading/writing connection
  • 5. Writing and revising
  • 6. Writing the literature review
  • 7. Using visual materials
  • 8. advisor and thesis/dissertation committee
  • 9. Working with grammar and style
  • 10. Practical considerations.