Your human geography dissertation : designing, doing and delivering / Kimberley Anne Peters.
An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages: -Designing: Deciding on your approach, your t...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Your human geography dissertation: An introduction -- Becoming a geographer -- What is a dissertation? -- Why do a human geography dissertation? -- Starting out: Top tips -- How to use this book -- SECTION I DESIGNING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION -- 2.Starting out: Identifying your approach -- The connections between thought and practice -- Finding your approach to geography -- Theoretical approaches for geographers -- The geography in your dissertation -- Philosophical ruminations: Moving forwards -- 3.Getting going: Finding a topic -- Introducing topic selection -- Topical challenges: A personal story -- Beginning: The thoughtful and creative stage -- Moving on: Finding a research problem -- 4.The next step: Developing your research question -- It's question time -- Reviewing literature -- Literature reviews -- Formulating your research question -- 5.Final preparations: Is your project workable? -- Geographical explorations -- Practical considerations -- Assessing health and safety -- Making sure it's legal -- Paying attention to ethics -- SECTION II DOING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION -- 6.Doing reflexive research: Situating your dissertation -- First-person politics -- The `god trick' (and other myths) -- Situating knowledges -- Placing yourself in your research -- 7.Making research happen: The methods glossary -- Mapping out methods -- Research with texts and archives -- Research with people and places -- Research with numbers and maps -- 8.More on methods: Approaching complex social worlds -- Introducing something different -- Participatory and action-orientated geographies -- Experimental and creative geographies -- Sensory and mobile methods -- Researching online -- 9.Selecting your methods: How to make the right choices -- Introducing method selection -- Choosing justified and appropriate methods -- Triangulating your methods -- Mixing your methods -- Locating your methods -- SECTION III DELIVERING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION -- 10.Dealing with data: Approaching analysis -- Bridging data and knowledge -- What is analysis? -- Approaches to analysis -- Analysing different data -- 11.Writing up: Where to start and how to finish -- `Earth-writing': Getting started -- What to write -- When to write -- How to write -- The `where' of writing -- 12.The last hurdle: Final considerations -- Getting started with finishing -- Inserting the bookends -- Proofing, polishing, printing -- Marking and results -- Being a geographer. | |
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