1st Edition
Doing a Master's Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Acknowledgments
List of tables
List of figures
Chapter 1 Introduction Part I Project design
Chapter 2 Choosing a topic
Chapter 3 Reviewing the literature
Chapter 4 Methodological approach Chapter 5 The dissertation proposal
Chapter 6 Supervisors and supervision
Part II The research procedure
Chapter 7 Data collection
Chapter 8 Data analysis
Part III Writing the dissertation
Chapter 9 General writing guidelines
Chapter 10 Writing the literature review chapter
Chapter 11 writing the methodology chapter
Chapter 12 Writing the results and discussion chapters
Chapter 13 Beginning and ending the dissertation Part IV Dissertation submission
Chapter 14 The finishing touches
Chapter 15 The examination and beyond
Chapter 16 Resources
Glossary
Index
Biography
Lindy Woodrow is Honorary Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia.
"This is a comprehensive and accessible book which gives practical guidance to students new to the research process and which clearly draws on the author’s experience of supervising masters' dissertations. It assumes little knowledge, provides engaging examples and anecdotes to make ideas concrete and meaningful, and takes students through the entire process from critical groundwork to the publishing of articles based on their dissertations. It promises to be an extremely useful resource."Neil Murray, University of Warwick, UK
"Lindy Woodrow’s extensive experience of research supervision and teaching academic writing ensures that Doing a Master’s Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics is the ideal, step-by-step guide for students who are planning, researching and writing their dissertation. Relevant extracts from recent TESOL and applied linguistics masters' dissertations in the UK, Australia and USA enrich the wealth of advice provided."
Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales, Australia
"[...] A comprehensive and practical guidebook [...] this book would have made my dissertation writing more manageable, its goals more visible, and its difficulties more able to be prepared for."
Yali Liu, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
