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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius: 242x170 mm, kaal: 630 g
  • Sari: Sage Study Skills Series
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1847870694
  • ISBN-13: 9781847870698
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius: 242x170 mm, kaal: 630 g
  • Sari: Sage Study Skills Series
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009
  • Kirjastus: Sage Publications Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1847870694
  • ISBN-13: 9781847870698
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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(2)
What Is a Dissertation?
3(10)
Why do I have to do a dissertation? The point of independent study
3(1)
Evidence-based practice
4(1)
The main components of a dissertation
5(1)
What will impress? Seeing it from the examiner's point of view
6(3)
The marking criteria
9(1)
What should I do next?
9(2)
Where to find out more
11(1)
Further reading
11(2)
What Types of Dissertation Are There?
13(13)
Your choice
13(1)
Practical investigations versus theoretical analyses and literature reviews
14(2)
Practical/empirical investigations
16(3)
Theoretical studies
19(1)
Literature reviews
20(2)
Another way of looking at types of dissertation
22(1)
What should I do next?
23(1)
Further reading
24(2)
What Will it Be About?
26(11)
What really interests you?
26(3)
Regulations and supervision
29(1)
Previous examples
30(1)
Getting background information
31(2)
Starting a research diary
33(1)
What should I do next?
33(2)
Further reading
35(2)
How Do I Get Started?
37(12)
What's the problem?
37(3)
Second review of literature
40(1)
What are the main concepts?
40(1)
What about indicators?
41(1)
What are the main variables and values?
41(2)
Ways of stating your research problem
43(3)
Definition of research objectives
46(1)
What should I do next?
47(1)
Further reading
48(1)
What's All This About Philosophy?
49(15)
Can I believe what I see? Do I see what I believe?
49(1)
Positivism
50(2)
Relativism (or interpretivism)
52(2)
Alternative philosophical viewpoints
54(1)
How do these attitudes affect your dissertation?
55(1)
Two opposite approaches to enquiry: induction and deduction
56(4)
What should I do next?
60(2)
Further reading
62(2)
How Do I Write a Proposal?
64(14)
What is a proposal?
64(1)
The subject title
65(6)
The aims or objectives
71(1)
The background
72(1)
Defining the research problem and question
73(1)
The main concepts and variables
74(1)
Methods
74(1)
Expected outcomes
75(1)
Programme of work
75(1)
What should I do next?
75(1)
Further reading
76(2)
What About Working and Planning My Time?
78(12)
Motivation and discipline
78(1)
Moods
79(1)
Being creative
80(2)
All the things you need to do
82(2)
Setting up a work timetable
84(2)
Starting to write
86(1)
What should I do next?
87(1)
Further reading
88(2)
Where Do I Get Hold of All the Necessary Background Information?
90(15)
Information overload?
90(2)
What sorts of background information do I need?
92(2)
Library searches
94(4)
The Internet
98(1)
Evaluating web sources
99(1)
Search techniques for online catalogues, databases and the Net
100(4)
What should I do next?
104
Further reading
103(2)
How Can I Manage All the Notes?
105(9)
Introduction
105(1)
Reading techniques
106(1)
Identifying useful material
107(1)
Organizing your system
107(3)
Taking notes
110(1)
What should I do next?
111(1)
Further reading
112(2)
How Do I Make an Effective Argument?
114(15)
Introduction
114(1)
The use of language
115(1)
Statements
116(2)
Argument
118(1)
Different types of argument
119(2)
Do I need to use logic in my argument?
121(1)
Fallacies in argument
122(2)
Building up your argument: the essential thread
124(2)
Gathering your results
126(1)
What should I do next?
127(1)
Further reading
127(2)
What Sorts of Data Will I Find?
129(19)
The nature of data
129(2)
Primary and secondary data
131(3)
Quantitative and qualitative data, and levels of measurement
134(3)
Where do I find the necessary data?
137(3)
Sampling
140(5)
What should I do next?
145(1)
Further reading
146(2)
How Do I Critically Appraise Research Evidence?
148(6)
What is critical appraisal?
148(1)
Why do we do it? Why is it important?
149(1)
The steps of critical appraisal
150(1)
Summarizing the evidence
151(1)
What should I do next?
152(1)
Further reading
152(2)
What About Research Ethics and Research Governance?
154(15)
Introduction
154(1)
Acknowledging other people's work
155(2)
Seeking Research Ethics Committee review
157(1)
Negotiating access to the field
158(1)
Research governance
159(1)
Respect for other people
160(5)
Academic integrity
165(1)
What should I do next?
166(1)
Further reading
167(2)
How Do I Collect Primary Data?
169(19)
Introduction
169(1)
Research methods
170(1)
Questionnaires
170(3)
Interviews
173(2)
Focus groups
175(1)
Standardized scales and tests
176(2)
Observation
178(1)
Experiments
179(5)
What should I do next?
184(1)
Further reading
185(3)
How Do I Analyse Quantitative Data?
188(10)
Raw data
188(1)
Refer to the research question
189(1)
Analysis according to types of data
189(1)
Quantitative analysis
190(2)
Parametric and non-parametric statistics
192(1)
Statistical tests: parametric
193(1)
Statistical tests: non-parametric
194(1)
Discussion of results
195(1)
What should I do next?
195(1)
Further reading
196(2)
How Do I Analyse Qualitative Data?
198(16)
Qualitative research
198(1)
Qualitative data collection and analysis
199(2)
Preliminary analysis during data collection
201(1)
Typologies and taxonomies
201(2)
Pattern coding, memoing and interim summary
203(1)
Main analysis during and after data collection
204(6)
What should I do next?
210(2)
Further reading
212(2)
What About Referencing?
214(8)
Why should I bother with references?
214(1)
Keeping track
215(1)
Right ways of doing it
216(3)
How many references do I need?
219(1)
What should I do next?
220(1)
Further reading
220(2)
How Can I Manage a Long Piece of Writing?
222(11)
When to start writing up
222(1)
Frame and fill
223(2)
Marshalling your notes and drafting your text
225(2)
Revisions
227(1)
Tops and tails
228(1)
How do I come to conclusions?
229(1)
Do not forget your grammar, spelling and punctuation!
230(1)
What should I do next?
231(1)
Further reading
231(2)
How Can I Make My Work Look Interesting and Easy to Read?
233(16)
Presentation ideas
233(1)
Cover design and binding
234(1)
Title
235(1)
Acknowledgements
235(1)
Abstract
236(1)
Contents list
236(1)
Introduction
237(1)
References and bibliography
237(1)
Appendices
238(1)
Internal layout and design
238(6)
Advanced tips and tricks with the computer
244(2)
Avoid the production blues
246(1)
What should I do next?
247(1)
Further reading
248(1)
Who Else Might Be Interested in My Writing?
249(9)
Do not waste all your hard work: make it work for you
249(2)
Feedback to participants
251(1)
Publishing an article
251(2)
Conference papers and poster presentations
253(1)
Radio and television
253(1)
Grants, awards and prizes
254(1)
Publishing on the Internet
254(1)
Setting up your own business
255(1)
Ethics reminder
255(1)
What should I do next?
256(1)
Further reading
256(2)
References 258(4)
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.