1st Edition

How To Write Up Your Geography Dissertation A Step-By -Step Guide

By Daniel Hammett Copyright 2026
212 Pages 12 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 12 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 12 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This step-by-step guide to the writing journey of a geography dissertation provides guidance and reassurance on the foundational aspects of the dissertation. This guide will also support students in focussing their time and energy on the substantive components and concerns of their individual work. It is no surprise that the dissertation is often a cause of stress and anxiety for students. Much... Read more

1 Thinking about your dissertation

2 Supervisors, support, and common questions

3 Writing your dissertation

4 Good writing

5 Step-by-step: Literature review

6 Step-by-step: Research design and methods

7 Step-by-step: Results and discussion

8 Step-by-step: Presenting data

9 Step-by-step: Conclusions

10 Step-by-step: Introduction

11 Step-by-step: Front matter

12 Step-by-step: Referencing and reference lists

13 Step-by-step: Appendices

14 Remember your audience: Keeping your marker onside

15 What next? Employability and your dissertation

16 The end of a journey?

Biography

Daniel Hammett is a senior lecturer in the School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK, and a senior research associate in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has over 20 years of national and international field research and field class teaching experience across numerous national contexts. His research focusses on questions of citizenship, nationalism, and geopolitics, and his research has been published in journals including Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, as well as recent books with Routledge (Global Development: The Basics) and Bristol University Press (Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance – with Laura S. Martin and Izuu Nwankwọ).