An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages:
- Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic and your research question, and ensuring your project is feasible
- Doing: Situating your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation project
- Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings
With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography dissertation.
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1. Your human geography dissertation: An introduction
SECTION 1: DESIGNING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION
2: Starting Out: identifying your approach
3: Getting Going: finding a topic
4: The next step: developing your research question
5: Final preparations: is your project workable?
SECTION 2: DOING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION
6: Doing reflexive research: situating your dissertation
7: Making research happen: the methods glossary
8: More on methods: approaching complex social worlds
9: Selecting your methods: how to make the right choices
SECTION 3: DELIVERING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION
10: Dealing with data: approaching analysis
11: Writing up: where to start and how to finish
12: The last hurdle: final considerations