Week 89: CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTERS Part 2: FRAMEWORKS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF LITERATURE AND METHODOLOGY

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Week 8/9 CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTERSPart 2
FRAMEWORKS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF LITERATURE AND
METHODOLOGY CHAPTERSLEARNING OUTCOMES

• To begin to demonstrate how to integrate the
  research problem, literature review and research
  methodology
• To prepare future direction of work -
  consideration and guidance
• To outline how your introduction, literature
  review and methodology chapters will be structured

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Week 8/9CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTERSPart 3 FINISH
WRITINGLEARNING OUTCOMES

• To understand how to go about writing the
  complete dissertation
• To recognise how to get the best from your
  supervisor in the final writing up stage

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THREE STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

• Stage 1 - Pre-writing
• Where audience is identified
• Consequent research problem or objectives of the
  dissertation is sorted out
• The outline or table of contents is roughly drawn
  up
• This part of the writing process takes a lone
  time and must be done carefully is dissertation
  is to be finished on time

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THREE STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

• Stage 2 - Composing
• Where first draft ideas for any section of the
  outline are written in a quick, freewheeling or
  free-writing way
• Without editorial concerns like checking dates of
  references or whether a sentence has a full stop
• GET THE FIRST DRAFT SECTION DOWN!

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THREE STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

• Stage 3 - Rewriting
• After first draft is written, it is rewritten
  because new ideas will have surfaced (how will I
  know what I think until I have seen what I have
  written?)
• There are at least three of four more redrafts of
  a section, that improve on earlier drafts

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THREE STAGES OF THE WRITING PROCESS

• Stage 3 - Rewriting (contd)
• For example
• Second draft - check for coherence, ie. Parts of
  the draft flow appropriately from one part to the
  next part (cut and paste facility very useful
  here)
• Third draft - focus on editorial concerns like
  the length of sentences, and active or passive
  voice
• Fourth draft - finally check for referencing,
  table and figure numbers and mechanical tasks
  (check contents page matches contents!)

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THE WRITING PROCESS

• Because of these stages - the writing process
  must begin very early in the project
• Pre-writing and even some composition begins
  before data is collected
• YOU CANNOT BEGIN WRITING EARLY ENOUGH

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THE WRITING PROCESS - HOW TO BEGIN

• Writing a draft abstract (150-200 words) of the
  report before going into the field could help
  construct the outline or table of contexts
  developed at the first stage
• When an outline or table of contents is prepared,
  then separate section can be written separately -
  start with whatever section is easier to write
• For example - some of the methodology and
  literature sections could be written now

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SECTION 1

• Rationale, aims and objectives (1000 words max.)
  25 marks
• Rationale/background/justification for research
• should outline the broad field of study and lead
  to a focus on the research problem, importance,
  value
• Research problem/research issue(s)
• one or two sentences that cannot be answered
  yes or no place a boundary around the
  research
• Research aims and objectives
• follow discussion so far and precisely state the
  purpose and direction of the research

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SECTION 2

• Acknowledgement and understand of relevant
  literature (1000 words max.) 25
• Acknowledgement of parent and core literatures
• identification of relevant literatures stemming
  from aims andobjectives
• Acknowledgement of relevant literatures
• literature to address the research aims and
  objectives and progress towards some conclusions,
  conceptual frameworks/models, and identification
  of the core areas that require further empirical
  research in order to achieve aims and objectives

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SECTION 3

• Description of empirical research methodology
  (1000 words max.) 25 marks
• Justification of methodology
• chosen methodology stated and justified as most
  appropriate for addressing research aims and
  objectives and outstanding issues raised in
  section 2
• Description of intended empirical research
• outline in as much detail as feasible the
  planned/actual empirical research, including
  structure, informants, focus of inquiry,
  schedules, etc

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INTEGRATION AND PROGRESSION

• Integration and flow of sections 25 marks
• Integration and co-ordination within and between
  sections
• sections 1-3 should follow on from one another,
  linking key issues from each section and leading
  onto next part
• Progression of topic/debate
• each section should build on previous
  debates/outcomes with little repetition within
  and between section e.g. literature should focus
  on specific aims and objectives (be more specific
  and give detail than introductory section,
  methodology should feature appropriate methods to
  gather data and address aims and objectives

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INTEGRATION AND PROGRESSION (contd)

• For example
• literature should focus on specific aims and
  objectives and be more specific and provide more
  detail/debate than introductory section
• methodology section should feature appropriate
  methods to gather data and address aims and
  objectives and be specific about where different
  types of information will come from and what the
  nature of that information will be