How to Write a Better Thesis

50 4 Making a Strong Start The structure of a chapter should be organic, that is, should be appropriate to the content. My stude ...

Literature 51 From ‘Chapter Five: The Place of FC in the Academic EFL Instructors’ Practice’ in Al- Asmari, Abdul (2008). Integr ...

52 4 Making a Strong Start What constitutes ‘relevant’ varies between disciplines, but in general the bulk of the citations will ...

Styles of Working 53 And don’t forget that reading is an ongoing commitment; you should be looking for literature throughout you ...

54 4 Making a Strong Start to settle to the task when they sit at their desk, but that, once settled, they can write fluently. S ...

Working with Your Supervisor 55 These kinds of distraction may be the explanation for a problem that I’ve seen with a good numbe ...

56 4 Making a Strong Start for a mature researcher—the sort of person the PhD student wants to become—but can be an effective wa ...

Working with Your Supervisor 57 particular, he did not seem to grasp the importance of questioning, scepticism, and independence ...

58 4 Making a Strong Start occasionally a supervisor will lose interest in the student, or the topic, and no longer engages suff ...

Summary of Chapter 4: Making a Strong Start 59 Develop the chapter in an appropriate and logical way to achieve the aim stat- e ...

61 Chapter 5 The Introductory Chapter Imagine, for a moment, that your thesis is an important person you are meeting for the fir ...

62 5 The Introductory Chapter at the other, they set out to establish standards for ethical conduct. Neither type of research, o ...

Stating the Problem, Motivating the Study 63 the present way of doing things is inadequate in some way, or that existing theory ...

64 5 The Introductory Chapter current theory, but not here. In summary, a ‘Statement of the Problem’ or ‘Motiva- tion for the St ...

Aim and Scope of the Study 65 needed to say what he meant by ‘solving’ it: in this case ‘to identify ways in which the Japanese ...

66 5 The Introductory Chapter From ‘Chapter One: Introduction’ in Yeldham, Michael (2009). Approaches to Second Lan- guage Liste ...

Overview of the Study 67 may demonstrate a novel use of a procedure or technique (for example, a statistical test, a projective ...

68 5 The Introductory Chapter research questions are posed accordingly. Chap. 3 deals with the methodological issues and researc ...

Research Questions and Hypotheses 69 ing skills. They may even need to conduct a preliminary investigation to further tease out ...

70 5 The Introductory Chapter the first chapter of a thesis should be an extensive review of the literature ending up with a res ...