How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation

4th Edition

By Bryan Greetham, Jennifer Boyle and Scott Ramsay

Teaching Resources

Student Zone

Part 7

Checklists:

• Criticism

• Evidence

• Language

Exercises

• Consistent arguments:

• Affirming and denying
• Facts, Values and Concepts

• Suppressed premises

• Using evidence:

• Creating causal connections:

• Cause and correlation

• Multiple causes and underlying causes

• The post hoc fallacy

• Describing it:

• Statistics

• Austerity measures

• Railways

• The First World War

• Averages

• Insufficient and weighted evidence

• Loose descriptions

• Oversimplification

• Qualifiers

• Drawing inferences

• Analogies

• Patterns and analogies

• Relevant and irrelevant inferences

• Unreliable inferences

• Using language

• Clarity

• Abstractions

• Begging the question

• Contraries and opposites

• Jargon

• Loaded language

• Consistency

• Fallacy of equivocation