Archived Material (Dissertations)
This book takes you through all the elements needed for a successful dissertation proposal and dissertation. The book explains the sections required for both proposal and dissertation, and offers helpful downloadable templates to assist with the presentation.
Step 2: What sections go into a dissertation?
Main body - introduction
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The introduction serves as an expansion of your title and is included in every dissertation. The introduction:
- uses a descriptive writing style
- gives a bit more detail about the problem or question you are tackling in the paper
- makes a very clear statement of your purpose – Why did you carry out the research? Why are you writing this dissertation?
- indicates the scope of your research.
- outlines the sections to be included
- gives a very brief statement of the background to the topic.
- can define any key terms which need clarfying in order to understand the content.
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Remember: The introduction comes at the beginning of the paper, after the abstract, acknowledgements and contents lists. When numbering the pages, start at 1 on the introduction. |