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    <title> Doing your social science dissertation</title>
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    <namePart> Burnett Judith</namePart>
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    <publisher>SAGE publications Ltd</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent> 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages): illustrations; 24cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Here, Judith Burnett takes students through the process of doing a dissertation from turning the raw ideas into a research question, designing the research project, choosing appropriate methods, developing a research proposal, and much more</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>CONTENTS
1 Ready to Research?-- 
2 Great Expectations: What You Need to Do forYour Dissertation--
 3 Defining the Research Question--
4 What Kind of Researcher AreYou?-- 
5 Writing the Research Proposal-- 
6 Finding Resources and Doing the Literature Review-- 
7 Research Design: Projects and Their Needs-- 
8 Collecting Data: Quantitative Methods-- 
9 Collecting Data: Qualitative Methods-- 
10 Carrying Out the Research--
11 What Do I Do with All the Data?-- 
12 Drawing Conclusions and Writing Up.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Judith Burnett</note>
  <note>Includes Bibliographical references[p.248-254] and Index</note>
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    <topic> Academic Dissertation</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Academic theses</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Academic Dissertations as Topic</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Academic writing</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic> Composition &amp; Creative Writing</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">LB2369.B87 2009</classification>
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