TY - BOOK AU - Burnett Judith TI - Doing your social science dissertation SN - 9781412931120 AV - LB2369.B87 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - SAGE publications Ltd, KW - Academic Dissertation KW - Academic theses KW - Academic Dissertations as Topic KW - Academic writing KW - Composition & Creative Writing N1 - Includes Bibliographical references[p.248-254] and Index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -