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• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part One: Essential preparation for your dissertation
• 1: What is a masters?
• 2: Managing your transition to masters
• 3: Finding and formulating your topic
• 4: Imagining your dissertation
• 5: Choosing which type of dissertation to do
• 6: Searching and reviewing the literature
• Part Two: Research design and methodology
• 7: Methodological assumptions and beliefs
• 8: Methodological choices and consequences
• 9: Research ethics and standards
• 10: Research design
• Part Three: Doing the Writing
• 11: Writing your research proposal
• 12: Writing your dissertation
• Appendix 1: Skills, capabilities, attitudes and qualities of the masters
• Appendix 2: Levels of measurement and use
• Appendix 3: References for Tables 10.2 and 10.7
• References
• Index