Writing a thesis : substance and style
By: WAGENEN, R. Keith Van.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 1992Description: 154 p.Subject(s): Metodologia Cientifica | Pesquisa | Projeto de PesquisaItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Livro Geral | Biblioteca Graciliano Ramos | Livro Geral | 11W1311w (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 10009316 |
1 - About you as a writer and this book - Purpose of the book - The sorry state of research writing - A rationale: the thinking behind research - Your major professor and self-improvement - Content of this book - Using this book with a form and style manual 2 - How to write a thesis or dissertation proposal - Finding a research topic - What is a problem? - Generating a research problem and verifying its content - Conducting a library search - Deciding on statistical analyses - Writing your first draft - Producting a proposal, from beginning to written - Product - An example introduction to a proposal - A proposed method 3 - How to write a research introduction - A difference in research problems investigated and reported - Four parts of an introduction - An example introduction - Reducing a problem to a written statement - An explanatory expression of a problem - Writing an Explanatory problem statement - Suppositions - Presuppositions - An operational expression of a problem 4 - How to write a method section - Style, grammar, and content of method - Subjects and design - Procedure - Materials, apparatus, tests - Validity and reliability of measurements 5 - How to write a results section - Primary or descriptive evidencie - Secondary or inferential evidence - Formats for reporting various statistical analyses 6 - How to write a discussion - Content for a discussion - Wrong content for a discussion - An example discussion 7 - Writing with style - Organizing research reports - Creating text - Saying what you intend - Being definite and forceful - Creating an honest image"
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