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Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists Mark Breach For me the obvious way with words is great I would suggest it to my students – Colin Waring, Portsmouth Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists may be the must-have book for preparing students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the disseration writing process. Dissertation writing could be a major task and if you’ve been pitfalls which can be prevented while using the proper preparation. This book enables students to navigate their way around these pitfalls and effectively complete their dissertations. This lively and student-friendly guide views the particular needs of engineers and scientists by providing lots of examples employing their particular fields and approaching these questions friendly and informal manner. This book covers every part of the dissertation writing process, including: * What exactly is a dissertation? * How to start your dissertation * Personal time management planning * Project proposals * Ethics * Collecting and understanding important data * Writing your dissertation In regards to the author Dr Mark Breach is Principal Lecturer in Engineering Surveying at Nottingham Trent College.As Programme Leader for the MSc Civil and Geotechnical Engineering levels he manages its postgraduate dissertations anf the husband also performs exactly the same function for undergraduate Civil Engineers.show more

Product details

• Format Paperback 160 pages
• Dimensions 168 x 236 x 10mm 299.37g
• Publication date 31 Jan 2009
• Author Pearson Education Limited
• Imprint Prentice-Hall
• Publication City/Country Harlow, Uk
• Language British
• Edition Student edition
• Edition statement Student
• ISBN10 1405872780
• ISBN13 9781405872782
• Sales rank 717,676

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Table of contents

1 What exactly is a dissertation? 1.1 Why perform projects? 1.2 What exactly is a project? 1.3 How’s it going affected when? 1.4 Planning the task 1.5 Your tutor, friend or foe?

Summary 2 Creating a start 2.1 Selecting and defining the task 2.2 Motivation and added value 2.3 What type of project? 2.4 What’s the question? 2.5 The goal 2.6 The objectives 2.7 Methodology 2.8 Hypothesis and key questions 2.9 Sources 2.10 Timetable 2.11 Example project proposal Summary 3 Effort or pleasure? 3.1 Getting stuck in 3.2 The science and engineering context 3.3 Health, safety and risk assessment 3.4 COSHH 3.5 Ethics 3.6 Showing your point. 3.7 Quantitative or qualitative methods 3.8 Quantitative methods 3.9 Qualitative methods 3.10 Obtaining the data 3.11 Questionnaires 3.12 Interviews Summary 4 Meaning from figures 4.1 The level of smoothness of uncertainty 4.2 Data types 4.3 Previewing important data 4.4 Record methods 4.5 Parametric methods 4.6 Non-parametric methods Summary 5 Documents, documents 5.1 Writing up 5.2 Introduction chapter 5.3 Literature review chapter(s) 5.4 Citing references 5.6 Results chapter 5.7 Analysis chapter 5.8 Conclusions and suggestions chapter 5.9 Abstract 5.10 Tops and tails Summary 6 Good ideas , 6.1 What can fail? 6.2 Dealing with disaster 6.3 Which makes it go immediately: prevention, much better than cure Summary 7 Assessment and beyond 7.1 Project proposal 7.2 Preliminary literature review 7.3 Progress presentation along with the viva voce 7.4 Preparing your presentation 7.5 Poster presentations 7.6 Marking the dissertation 7.7 Be ready for publication 7.8 Summary 8 Plagiarism — avoidance and recognition 8.1 What’s plagiarism? 8.2 Why people plagiarise 8.3 How you will probably be caught 8.4 How’s it going affected when you are getting caught? 8.5 Stopping accidental plagiarism 8.5 Stopping accidental plagiarism Summary 9 Questions and solutions Ishow more

About Mark Breach

Dr Mark Breach is Principal Lecturer in Engineering Surveying at Nottingham Trent College. As Programme Leader for the MSc Civil and Geotechnical Engineering levels he manages its postgraduate dissertations anf the husband also performs exactly the same function for undergraduate Civil Engineers.show more

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