About this companion site
This companion website for Dissertations and Project Reports provides a bank of resources for your personal use. You can use these to:
- identify your skills and priorities for research assignments
- browse and read existing resources and materials
- create a detailed plan of action to help manage your project and your wellbeing
- analyse the assignment brief
- consider any ethical issues relevant to your project
- check and interpret your findings
- structure your writing
Word file downloads will be available shortly.
Chapter 1 – Where do I start?
1. Decide your log formats
Chapter 2 – What skills will I need?
2. Skills for research-based assignments
3. Take action to develop your skills
4. Log your person development
5. Record of skills and personal development
Chapter 3 – What makes a good dissertation or research project?
6. Browse existing work
Chapter 4 – Project-manage your dissertation
7. Devising a plan of action
8. Identify and manage potential risks
9. Managing resources
10. Finances
11. Managing risks specific to my project
Chapter 6 – Self-care: managing well-being and stress
12. Using support: family, friends and colleagues
13. Well-being action plan
Chapter 8 – Working with your supervisor
14. Supervision
Chapter 9 – Understanding the assignment brief
15. Analysing the assignment brief
Chapter 10 – Ethical considerations
16. Ethical considerations
Chapter 11 – Using AI tools for research assignments
17. Using AI for your assignment
Chapter 12 – Choosing your topic and title
18. How good is my topic?
Chapter 13 – Literature search and review
19. Know your field
20. Selecting material to include
21. The literature review
Chapter 14 – Principles of good research
22. Journal articles: methodology and methods
Chapter 16 – Writing the research proposal
23. Evaluating my research proposal
Chapter 17 – The evidence base
24. Deciding on your raw material
25. The evidence base
Chapter 18 – Working with participants
26. Working with participants
Chapter 19 – Experiments
27. Experiments
Chapter 20 – Observations
28. Evaluate your observational method
Chapter 21 – Surveys and questionnaires
29. Evaluating your questionnaire
Chapter 22 – Interviews
30. Interviews
Chapter 23 – Case studies
31. Case study
Chapter 24 – Interpreting your findings
32. Interpreting your findings
Chapter 25 – Your writing strategy
33. Working from examples
Chapter 26 – Getting the structure right
34. Writing structure: which sections are required
35. Writing structure: which chapters?
Chapter 27 – Fine-tuning your writing
36. Coherence, consistency and clarity
Chapter 28 – Making a presentation
37. Slide presentations
38. Poster presentations
Chapter 29 – Preparing for an oral exam
39. Preparing for an oral exam
