How To Do Your Dissertation In Geography And Related Disciplines: Second Edition

1 2 3 4 511 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 311 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4011 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 H OW T O D O YO U R D I S S E RTAT I O N I N G E O G R A P H Y A N D R E L AT E D D I S C I P L I N E S This revised and updated edition of How to Do Your Dissertation in Geography and Related Disciplines continues to provide a detailed guide to the planning and procedures that students need to consider when preparing their dissertations in geography, environmental science and geology. Taking into account new sources, improved technology in production of the dissertation and changes in teaching style, this text goes through each of the stages, from deciding what topic to work on, through designing the research and collecting the data, to handing in the final bound volume. With an extended consideration of different types of data (qualitative, quantitative and spatial) and a wider consideration of different approaches to problem solving, the text suggests practical ways of tackling the tasks involved and locates common pitfalls associated with each. Tony Parsons is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Leicester and Peter G. Knight is Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Keele University. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 311 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4011 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 H OW T O D O YO U R D I S S E RTAT I O N I N GEOGRAPHY AND R E L AT E D D I S C I P L I N E S Second edition Tony Parsons and Peter G. Knight 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 311 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4011 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 First edition published 1995 by Chapman and Hall Second edition published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2005 Tony Parsons and Peter G. Knight All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-32423-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0–415–34154–X (hbk) ISBN 0–415–34155–8 (pbk) 1 2