Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering [Hardcover]

An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. Yet, completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering organizes  the project into three helpful stages:

• Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic, and your research question, while also ensuring your project is feasible
• Doing: Situating your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation project
• Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings

With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this essential guide offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography dissertation.A concise, flexible and wonderfully written textbook which supports undergraduate geography students throughout the stressful dissertation process. Divided into three sections - Designing, Doing and Delivering – it is a complete overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful dissertation.This excellent new text guides students carefully, intelligently and sympathetically through the process of doing a human geography dissertation. It offers grounded advice - from the question of what a dissertation is, to the mechanics of data analysis - which will be indispensable for students researching the full diversity of topics covered by contemporary human geography. The insights, advice and reflections from both previous students and academic staff who currently teach human geography add valuable insights that will both reassure students and help them avoid makinlóÎ