Bryman & Bell: Research Project Guide

Table of Contents

1. Preparing Yourself to Do Research
2. What Do I Want to Research Exactly?
3. The Research Process
4. Writing Up Your Research Report
   1. Preliminary planning
   2. The structure of a dissertation
   3. Title page, acknowledgements and contents page
   4. Abstracts
   5. Introduction
   6. The literature review
   7. Research Methods
   8. Results
   9. Discussion & Conclusions
   10. References, appendices and obligations
   11. Referencing
   12. Writing up research checklist

The structure of a dissertation

Possible Structure of a Dissertation (Page 560-4)

1. Title page
2. Acknowledgements
3. List of contents
4. An abstract
5. Introduction
6. Literature review
7. Research methods
8. Results
9. Discussion
10. Conclusion
11. Appendices
12. References

Also see:

Checklist of: Issues to Consider for Writing up a Piece of Research