What might your final submission look like?
1. Introduction and Context
• outline the general field of study
• introduce particular context of study
• Reason for selection
• learning objectives
• Outline of thesis structure
2 Literature Review
• Critical discussion of relevant literature
• structured around relevant topics and issues
• making critical comparison between different literature sets and authors
• drawing conclusions relative to your study
What might your final submission look like?
3. Methodology
• Description of methodology used
• Discussion of reasons for selection
• Data gathering and analysis techniques
• Problems and limitations in data gathering and analysis
4. Findings
• Descriptive summary of findings from data
• categorized under appropriate headings
• using key data in support of categories, integrated with text
• Not including full lists of data, tables etc
• remember to answer the ‘so what’ question (so what does this mean for me/the organization or whatever) what might your final submission look like?
5. Discussion
• Critical discussion of findings in relation to literature and theory
• summarizes key areas of convergence and divergence under appropriate headings
• Critically engages with areas of divergence
6 Conclusions
• draws particular conclusions, relative to detailed context
• draws general conclusions, applicable to field
• identifies areas for further study by others
• provides brief summary of personal learning
• can be combined with Chapter 5
References
• Full list of reference sources using standard format
Appendices
• Key extracts from other documents, necessary to support argument
• Typical examples of data sheets if, for example, data runs
