Day: September 21, 2016

  • What is a Dissertation?

    It is a document that defends a hypothesis. Based on sound collection of evidence from both literature and collected data. Evidence gathered from appropriate sources, presented in coherent structure,  drawing valid, reliable and justified conclusions. Degree-related project must contain work the student has carried out, not just other people’s work.

  • Triangulation

    Need significant body of evidence to support hypothesis. If taken from literature, read extensively around subject and gather wide range of correlative sources. If evidence is from own work, number of data sets required from different circumstances to ensure experiments/observations are repeatable. This approach is called triangulation – sets of evidence from various sources supporting…