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E-raamat: Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care

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  • Formaat: 288 pages
  • Sari: Sage Study Skills Series
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Sage Publications Ltd
  • Keel: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781446202449
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  • Formaat: 288 pages
  • Sari: Sage Study Skills Series
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  • Keel: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781446202449
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Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care provides a practical step-by-step guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the process of doing an undergraduate dissertation, equipping the reader with all the skills necessary to plan, conduct and write up a research project successfully. This is a revised edition of Nicholas Wallimans best-selling Your Undergraduate Dissertation, which has been specially tailored to the needs of those studying health, social care and related subjects. All the central topics are covered, with comprehensive information and guidance on crucial issues such as ethics, research governance and appraising the quality of the evidence. Relevant real life examples are also included, drawn from a wide range of settings.

This guide offers a genuinely accessible and supportive source of advice that will be welcomed by undergraduates in working towards their final year dissertation in health and social care.



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Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
1 What Is a Dissertation? 3
Why do I have to do a dissertation? The point of independent study
3
Evidence-based practice
4
The main components of a dissertation
5
What will impress? Seeing it from the examiner's point of view
6
The marking criteria
9
What should I do next?
9
Where to find out more
11
Further reading
11
2 What Types of Dissertation Are There? 13
Your choice
13
Practical investigations versus theoretical analyses and literature reviews
14
Practical/empirical investigations
16
Theoretical studies
19
Literature reviews
20
Another way of looking at types of dissertation
22
What should I do next?
23
Further reading
24
3 What Will it Be About? 26
What really interests you?
26
Regulations and supervision
29
Previous examples
30
Getting background information
31
Starting a research diary
33
What should I do next?
33
Further reading
35
4 How Do I Get Started? 37
What's the problem?
37
Second review of literature
40
What are the main concepts?
40
What about indicators?
41
What are the main variables and values?
41
Ways of stating your research problem
43
Definition of research objectives
46
What should I do next?
47
Further reading
48
5 What's All This About Philosophy? 49
Can I believe what I see? Do I see what I believe?
49
Positivism
50
Relativism (or interpretivism)
52
Alternative philosophical viewpoints
54
How do these attitudes affect your dissertation?
55
Two opposite approaches to enquiry: induction and deduction
56
What should I do next?
60
Further reading
62
6 How Do I Write a Proposal? 64
What is a proposal?
64
The subject title
65
The aims or objectives
71
The background
72
Defining the research problem and question
73
The main concepts and variables
74
Methods
74
Expected outcomes
75
Programme of work
75
What should I do next?
75
Further reading
76
7 What About Working and Planning My Time? 78
Motivation and discipline
78
Moods
79
Being creative
80
All the things you need to do
82
Setting up a work timetable
84
Starting to write
86
What should I do next?
87
Further reading
88
8 Where Do I Get Hold of All the Necessary Background Information? 90
Information overload?
90
What sorts of background information do I need?
92
Library searches
94
The Internet
98
Evaluating web sources
99
Search techniques for online catalogues, databases and the Net
100
What should I do next?
104
Further reading
103
9 How Can I Manage All the Notes? 105
Introduction
105
Reading techniques
106
Identifying useful material
107
Organizing your system
107
Taking notes
110
What should I do next?
111
Further reading
112
10 How Do I Make an Effective Argument? 114
Introduction
114
The use of language
115
Statements
116
Argument
118
Different types of argument
119
Do I need to use logic in my argument?
121
Fallacies in argument
122
Building up your argument: the essential thread
124
Gathering your results
126
What should I do next?
127
Further reading
127
11 What Sorts of Data Will I Find? 129
The nature of data
129
Primary and secondary data
131
Quantitative and qualitative data, and levels of measurement
134
Where do I find the necessary data?
137
Sampling
140
What should I do next?
145
Further reading
146
12 How Do I Critically Appraise Research Evidence? 148
What is critical appraisal?
148
Why do we do it? Why is it important?
149
The steps of critical appraisal
150
Summarizing the evidence
151
What should I do next?
152
Further reading
152
13 What About Research Ethics and Research Governance? 154
Introduction
154
Acknowledging other people's work
155
Seeking Research Ethics Committee review
157
Negotiating access to the field
158
Research governance
159
Respect for other people
160
Academic integrity
165
What should I do next?
166
Further reading
167
14 How Do I Collect Primary Data? 169
Introduction
169
Research methods
170
Questionnaires
170
Interviews
173
Focus groups
175
Standardized scales and tests
176
Observation
178
Experiments
179
What should I do next?
184
Further reading
185
15 How Do I Analyse Quantitative Data? 188
Raw data
188
Refer to the research question
189
Analysis according to types of data
189
Quantitative analysis
190
Parametric and non-parametric statistics
192
Statistical tests: parametric
193
Statistical tests: non-parametric
194
Discussion of results
195
What should I do next?
195
Further reading
196
16 How Do I Analyse Qualitative Data? 198
Qualitative research
198
Qualitative data collection and analysis
199
Preliminary analysis during data collection
201
Typologies and taxonomies
201
Pattern coding, memoing and interim summary
203
Main analysis during and after data collection
204
What should I do next?
210
Further reading
212
17 What About Referencing? 214
Why should I bother with references?
214
Keeping track
215
Right ways of doing it
216
How many references do I need?
219
What should I do next?
220
Further reading
220
18 How Can I Manage a Long Piece of Writing? 222
When to start writing up
222
Frame and fill
223
Marshalling your notes and drafting your text
225
Revisions
227
Tops and tails
228
How do I come to conclusions?
229
Do not forget your grammar, spelling and punctuation!
230
What should I do next?
231
Further reading
231
19 How Can I Make My Work Look Interesting and Easy to Read? 233
Presentation ideas
233
Cover design and binding
234
Title
235
Acknowledgements
235
Abstract
236
Contents list
236
Introduction
237
References and bibliography
237
Appendices
238
Internal layout and design
238
Advanced tips and tricks with the computer
244
Avoid the production blues
246
What should I do next?
247
Further reading
248
20 Who Else Might Be Interested in My Writing? 249
Do not waste all your hard work: make it work for you
249
Feedback to participants
251
Publishing an article
251
Conference papers and poster presentations
253
Radio and television
253
Grants, awards and prizes
254
Publishing on the Internet
254
Setting up your own business
255
Ethics reminder
255
What should I do next?
256
Further reading
256
References 258
Index 262
Dr Nicholas Walliman is a qualified architect and Associate Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University and is a former research associate in the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has been engaged on a series of nationally and internationally funded research projects on aspects of building technology and has published many research papers. He has also supervised and examined numerous PhD, MPhil and Masters students. He has published a number of books on doing research and writing papers, dissertations and theses. 
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