LibGuides: Linguistics and English Language: Dissertation research

Research skills

Sage Research Methods Collection
Helps researchers and students with their research projects. Includes more than 800 ebooks with supporting dictionary articles, journal entries, videos and cases. Also provides access to more than 150 teaching datasets taken from real research projects, to support quantitative and qualitative analytical methods.
There is an excellent help page at: http://sagepub.libguides.com/research-methods/researchmethods

How to Write Dissertations & Project Reports by Jonathan Weyers; Kathleen McMillan
ISBN: 9780273713586

Publication Date: 2007
Writing Your Dissertation by Derek Swetnam; Ruth Swetnam
ISBN: 9781857036626

Publication Date: 2004
How to Write Your Undergraduate Dissertation by Bryan Greetham
ISBN: 9781137389763

Publication Date: 2014-08-13

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Finding past dissertations

The Library has some past undergraduate and taught postgraduate dissertations, but not in every subject. They are all listed in LibrarySearch. To find dissertations for a particular degree:

Do a keyword search for your degree programme, e.g. ba politics, msc public relations. Make sure you Search Everything.
Click on the Dissertations filter on the right hand side.
You may wish to sort your results so that the most recent are at the top of the list. Sort by Date-newest.
Some dissertations are available online. When prompted, enter your university username and password to get access.
Dissertations in print format have a Thesis Number. You can request these from store.

Video: Finding Past Dissertations (may require login with University username and password)