Dissertation writing for engineers and scientists /
By: Breach, M. (Mark)
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Publisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009Edition: Student ed.Description: xii, 143 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781405872782; 1405872780.Subject(s): Research | Engineering -- Research | Qualitative research | Dissertations, Academic -- Authorship | Academic writingDDC classification: 808.06662
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Standard Loan | Main Lending Collection | 808.06662 BRE (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 0091455 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists is the must-have book for preparing students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the dissertation writing process.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 What is a dissertation?
- 1.1 Why do we do projects?
- 1.2 What is a project?
- 1.3 What happens when?
- 1.4 Planning the project
- 1.5 Your tutor, friend or foe?
- Summary
- 2 Making a start
- 2.1 Choosing and defining the project
- 2.2 Motivation and added value
- 2.3 What type of project?
- 2.4 What is the question?
- 2.5 The aim
- 2.6 The objectives
- 2.7 Methodology
- 2.8 Hypothesis and key questions
- 2.9 Resources
- 2.10 Timetable
- 2.11 Example project proposal
- Summary
- 3 Hard work or pleasure?
- 3.1 Getting stuck in
- 3.2 The science and engineering context
- 3.3 Health, safety and risk assessment
- 3.4 COSHH
- 3.5 Ethics
- 3.6 Proving your point
- 3.7 Quantitative or qualitative methods
- 3.8 Quantitative methods
- 3.9 Qualitative methods
- 3.10 Getting the data
- 3.11 Questionnaires
- 3.12 Interviews
- Summary
- 4 Meaning from numbers
- 4.1 The nature of uncertainty
- 4.2 Data types
- 4.3 Previewing your data
- 4.4 Statistical methods
- 4.5 Parametric methods
- 4.6 Non-parametric methods
- Summary
- 5 Paperwork, paperwork
- 5.1 Writing up
- 5.2 Introduction chapter
- 5.3 Literature review chapter(s)
- 5.4 Citing references
- 5.6 Results chapter
- 5.7 Analysis chapter
- 5.8 Conclusions and recommendations chapter
- 5.9 Abstract
- 5.10 Tops and tails
- Summary
- 6 Tips and hints
- 6.1 What can go wrong?
- 6.2 Recovering from disaster
- 6.3 How to make it go right from the start: prevention, better than cure
- Summary
- 7 Assessment and beyond
- 7.1 Project proposal
- 7.2 Preliminary literature review
- 7.3 Progress presentation and the viva voce
- 7.4 Preparing your presentation
- 7.5 Poster presentations
- 7.6 Marking the dissertation
- 7.7 Preparing for publication
- 7.8 Copyright
- Summary
- 8 Plagiarism - avoidance and detection
- 8.1 What is plagiarism?
- 8.2 Why people plagiarise
- 8.3 How you are likely to be caught
- 8.4 What happens when you get caught?
- 8.5 How to avoid accidental plagiarism
- 8.5 How to avoid accidental plagiarism
- Summary
- 9 Questions and answers I
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