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• Title:Writing successful reports and dissertations / Lucinda Becker.
  
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• Author/Creator:Becker, Lucinda M., 1963- author.
  
• Published/Created:London : SAGE, 2015.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2369 .B43 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dissertations, Academic.
  Report writing.
  
• Medical Subjects: Academic Dissertations as Topic
  
• Genre/Form: Academic theses.
  
• Description:xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Sage study skills.
  
• Summary:Are you unsure what your report should look like or how you'll ever finish it in time? Are you freaking out about starting on an extended piece of writing? Help is here! In this handy little book, you will find expert guidance to enable you to produce a successful report or dissertation. With a focus on developing an effective writing style and argument, this book will show you, step-by-step, how to plan and deliver a perfect piece of writing to gain top marks. Open this book and you will find advice on: what makes dissertations and reports distinctive, organising your time and materials, finding the right planning method for you, how to structure your writing successfully, writing good sentences, paragraphs, sections and chapters. Read this book and you are on your way to writing a great report or dissertation.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:9781446298268 hardback
  1446298264 hardback
  9781446298275 paperback
  1446298272 paperback
  9781473907317 PDF ebook
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Part I: Pondering
  Why a Dissertation?
  What Is Distinctive about a Dissertation?
  What Are Research Questions?
  What Makes a Good Dissertation?
  When and Why Would I Write a Report?
  What Is Distinctive about a Report?
  Should I Be Asking Research Questions in a Report?
  Part II: Preparing
  Devising a Strategy
  Gathering Material
  Finding Your Voice
  Part III: Planning
  Are You a Natural Planner?
  A Planning Strategy
  Your First Step
  Four Planning Methods
  Part IV: Pausing
  Negative Pauses
  Necessary Pauses
  Positive Pauses
  Part V: Producing
  Words
  Phrases
  Sentences
  Paragraphs
  Sections and Chapters
  Part VI: Polishing
  Increasing Impact
  Checking your Document
  Now Take Your Fingers off the Keyboard.