Computers, including internet access
Acces to Blackboard, websites and electronic journals.
Library resources, journals, databases, cd-rom, internet and inter-library loan
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A Glathorn (1998) Writing the Winning Dissertation (Corwen)
Directed reading will be supplied to each student in consultation with their dissertation supervisor

This is a distance learning module that is designed to offer the student ongoing supervision throughout the often solitary activity of completing a
dissertation. Working with the dissertation module handbook the student will initially work with the module tutor to design / select a topic of enquiry and a relevant literature and other research sources, fashion a manageable research problem and design a chapter by chapter plan. At this stage the student will be allocated to an appropriate supervisor who will have responsibility for guiding you to completion of the dissertation. It will be the joint responsibility of the supervisor and student to design a schedule for the undertaking of the dissertation in relation to appropriate targets of progress. The process will involve the student submitting drafts of work to the supervisor for advice, reworking the materials in the light of comments and fashioning a final version.

Students will select a topic in consultation with tutors, define the parameters of their chosen project, select appropriate research methods, and undertake independent research to produce a dissertation which makes a contribution to knowledge-production in the area of sociology.

Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4