Writing Your Thesis

This new edition is designed to help graduate and research students with the process, preparation, writing, and examination of their theses. Many students are able to design their program of research and to collect the data, but they can find it more difficult to transform their data into a thesis.

This text guides students through the steps of writing a research thesis. The volume opens with a discussion of academic writing in general and the criteria distinguishing a masters from a doctoral thesis. Other topics include, for example, developing a theory, accumulating references, selecting a supervisor, reviewing the literature, and presenting qualitative and quantitative data. Coverage extends to the procedure for submitting a thesis and strategies for defending it. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR