Part 1 Orienting Yourself:Overview of Dissertation Writing 1
Chapter 1 Orienting Yourself with Dissertation Writing 3
Part 2 Preparing for Dissertation Writing at the Pre-writing Stage 19
Chapter 2 Reading and Evaluating Literature 21
Chapter 3 Writing a Research Proposal 37
Chapter 4 Working out an Outline 69
Part 3 Writing the Dissertation 81
Chapter 5 Title 83
Chapter 6 Abstract 88
Chapter 7 Introduction 100
Chapter 8 Literature review 110
Chapter 9 Body 130
Chapter 10 Conclusion 164
Chapter 11 Appendices 180
Part 4 Revising the Dissertation at the Post-writing Stage 185
Chapter 12 Strategies for Revising the Dissertation at the Post-writing Stage 187
Part 5 Documenting Sources of Information 201
Chapter 13 Conventions for Documenting Sources of Information 203