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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.
List of 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
Summary
A concise, flexible and wonderfully written textbook which supports undergraduate geography students throughout the stressful dissertation process. Divided into three sections - Designing, Doing and Delivering – it is a complete overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful dissertation.
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This excellent new text guides students carefully, intelligently and sympathetically through the process of doing a human geography dissertation. It offers grounded advice - from the question of what a dissertation is, to the mechanics of data analysis - which will be indispensable for students researching the full diversity of topics covered by contemporary human geography. The insights, advice and reflections from both previous students and academic staff who currently teach human geography add valuable insights that will both reassure students and help them avoid making common mistakes.
Peter Kraftl
