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Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering


Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering

Paperback by Peters, Kimberley

Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering

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ISBN:
9781446295205
Publication Date:
23 Feb 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sage Publications Ltd
Pages:
264 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 May 2024
Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering

Description

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.

Contents

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

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