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Are you unsure what your thesis should look like? Perhaps you are struggling to get started or tie everything together in your conclusion? Help is here! Taking you from the introduction all the way through to the conclusion, this practical guide will provide you with step-by-step guidance, examples, checklists and expert tips to help you write your thesis with confidence.
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List of contents
PART I: PREPARING TO WRITE YOUR THESIS
Chapter 1: Enhancing academic writing
Chapter 2: Developing an academic argument
Chapter 3: Critical review of literature and building a theoretical framework
PART II: WRITING YOUR THESIS
Chapter 4: Writing the introduction chapter
Chapter 5: Writing the literature review
Chapter 6: Writing the methodology chapter
Chapter 7: Writing the results chapter
Chapter 8: Writing the discussion chapter
Chapter 9: Writing the conclusion and recommendation
Chapter 10: Finalising the thesis
About the author
Anne Pertet is a Professor at The Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development (TICH), Great Lakes University, Kenya. She specializes in Preventive and Community Health Research. She has over four-decade experience in research that integrates health and social sciences methods and theories. She also has vast experience of teaching students both at undergraduate to postgraduate levels in research methods, scientific and academic writing and thesis preparation. The motivation to write this reader-friendly book is based on the author′s encounters with the challenges postgraduates face when writing their thesis — an experience gained through teaching, supervising and examining thesis.
Summary
From writing the introduction all the way to the conclusion, this book will take students step-by-step through writing a postgraduate thesis.
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This book answers many questions about academic writing and has excellent examples. It is great to have everything in one book for students to use and to save supervisors time not to answer the same questions over and over again. Olga Cara
