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Month: August 2022

Writing your Methodology WELL

  One of the most important aspects of the methodology section is to relate what you’re writing to your own research. Students frequently reproduce pages of textbook definitions of research concepts e.g., research approaches, sampling, reliability, validity etc., with virtually no reference to their own research. Let me show you an example of how many students (unfortunately) describe …

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Delimitations and Limitations

Whether you’re writing your dissertation or proposal, you’ll need to specify the Delimitations and Limitations of your research. Here is a description of the differences between them. DELIMITATIONS are what you decide upfront will be the boundaries, restrictions or fences of your research. For example, you may decide to restrict your population or sample, or to restrict …

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The Literature Review

How well have you written your literature review? In my experience, most students write their literature reviews by focussing on who (i.e. the authors of each reference) says what. Each paragraph starts with authors’ names. Writing this way is not ideal as the focus is on the authors, rather than on what they’re saying. According to Bloom’s (2001) Taxonomy of conceptual …

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