Description
Book SynopsisDissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students is a step-by-step guide to get students through their final year research project. Trusted and developed over three previous editions, the new fourth edition shows you how to select a dissertation topic, write a proposal, conduct a literature review, select the research approach, gather the data, analyse and present the information and ultimately produce a well-written dissertation.
The book simplifies dissertation research and writing into a process involving a sequence of learnable activities and divides the process into three parts.
Part One covers the necessary groundwork, including: identifying the problem, writing a proposal and reviewing the literature.
Part Two covers the research design and includes: approaches and techniques for data collection and constructing and sampling a questionnaire.
Part Three covers: measurement of data, analysis of data with SPSS, structuring
Table of Contents
0. Prelims
Part I: Preparing the Ground and Reviewing the Literature
1. Introduction
2. Selecting a Topic and Writing the Dissertation Proposal
3. Reviewing the Literature
Part II: Research design and methodology
4. Approaches to Data Collection
5. Techniques for Data Collection
6. Questionnaire Construction
Part III: Analysis and presentation of the results
7. Measurements and Probability
8. Analysis of the Results
9. Structuring and Writing the Dissertation
10. Dissertation Supervision and Assessment
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
