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Writing Successful Reports and Dissertations
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Writing Successful Reports and Dissertations

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October 2014 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Are you unsure what your report should look like or how you’ll ever finish it in time?  Are you freaking out about starting on an extended piece of writing?

Help is here!  In this handy little book, you’ll find expert guidance to enable you to produce a successful report or dissertation.  With a focus on developing an effective writing style and argument, this book shows you, step-by-step, how to plan and deliver a perfect piece of writing to gain top marks. 

Open up to find advice on:

  • What makes dissertations and reports distinctive
  • Organising your time and materials
  • Finding the right planning method for you
  • How to structure your writing successfully
  • Writing good sentences, paragraphs, sections and chapters.

Read this book and you’re on your way to writing a great report or dissertation!

Student Success is a series of essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to boosting your employability and managing your wellbeing, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university. 

 
Introduction
 
Part I: Pondering
 
Why a Dissertation?
 
What Is Distinctive about a Dissertation?
 
What Are Research Questions?
 
What Makes a Good Dissertation?
 
When and Why Would I Write a Report?
 
What Is Distinctive about a Report?
 
Should I Be Asking Research Questions in a Report?
 
Part II: Preparing
 
Devising a Strategy
 
Gathering Material
 
Finding Your Voice
 
Part III: Planning
 
Are You a Natural Planner?
 
A Planning Strategy
 
Your First Step
 
Four Planning Methods
 
Part IV: Pausing
 
Negative Pauses
 
Necessary Pauses
 
Positive Pauses
 
Part V: Producing
 
Words
 
Phrases
 
Sentences
 
Paragraphs
 
Sections and Chapters
 
Part VI: Polishing
 
Increasing Impact
 
Checking your Document
 
Now Take Your Fingers off the Keyboard

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This is a useful book which will help the novice researcher to write their dissertation

Dr Helen Stoneley
Faculty of Education, Health, Sciences, Derby University
April 2, 2015

A good re-cap for post graduate students on the structuring of a dissertation. The chapter on pauses and persuasive writing is particularly helpful.

Ms Clare Winder
Dept of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire
March 24, 2015

Essential textbook that outlines and clarifies very clearly how and why students need to complete each section of their dissertations.

Dr Katherine Cartmell
Education and Early Childhood Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
March 16, 2015

The book contains helpful tips and tricks for writing academic texts, which can be applied not only to dissertations but to all kind of essays and assignments. These are quite useful for anyone who struggles with writing in academia. However, because of the topical focus on dissertations in the first part, I use the book as supplemental material in my own lectures rather than recommending it to my students who are all master level.

Ms Dorothea Bernarda Born
Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna
September 30, 2015

Clear guidance gives the reader a good overview of how to write a successful dissertation.

Mrs MINE TANA
HESC Office, Barnet College
March 3, 2015

This is one area where students really struggle to come to grips with. This book helps them overcome their anxieties when it comes time for them to write their assignments and their dissertation in the final year of study.

Dr Denis Feather
Dept. of Strategy, Marketing and Economics, Huddersfield University
February 2, 2015

This book will help tremendously with some of the writing issues that students bring up when completing undergraduate dissertations. It's a good text to complement others.

Professor Jonathan Parker
Society and Social Welfare, Bournemouth University
January 30, 2015

This is a clear well written text which will support the learner or less experienced researcher well. There is a logical progression in the book and I do find that the use of simple line diagrams really clarify the work well.
Thank you for this it will be most useful I believe

Ms Joanne O'Donnell
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Univ. of Manchester
January 28, 2015

Written in a student friendly style it provides useful tips for approaching writing.

Dr Fiona McSweeney
Social Science , Dublin Institute of Technology
January 26, 2015

Although a well written and accessible text, this is not particularly relevant for most students. Most students do not complete a primary research dissertation, but choose to do a literature review.

Dr Peter Leadbetter
Health & Social Care, Edge Hill University
January 6, 2015

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