EDU705 Highlighted Handouts Set 2 by Blossom

Lesson No. 1 · Purpose and Main Components of a Thesis · Topic 1: Purpose of the Thesis

To enable students to develop:

• deeper knowledge
• understanding
• capabilities

Overall goal is for student to display knowledge and capacity to:

• contribute to research and development work
• deal with complex theoretical issues
• to plan and use adequate methods and evaluate

Thesis at the end of the programme offers the opportunity to:

• delve deeply into
• and synthesize acquired knowledge (MID Term paper pattren)

no mcqs

6 Questions of 5 marks

Must attempt 4 questions out of 6

Highlighted Handouts by _Blossom_

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Topic 2: Writing Style and Audience

• Audience and Purpose Context of writing Range of audience Authority readers or ‘critics’
• Primary Audience Scholarly community Real and imagined Internalize audience o Supportive o Hostile o Adversarial
• Secondary Audience External examiners Representative of scholarly community
• Immediate Audience Supervisor Highly influential ‘Ideal Reader’ (IMP Q. Primary Effect. How does it affect the audience) mcq

Topic 3: Order and Component of Thesis

1. Title page
2. Statement of originality/ copyright page

Q3. a) Dedication

1. Acknowledgements
2. Abstract
3. Table of Contents
4. List of :

• Tables
• Figures/ illustrations

7. List of Abbreviations
8. Chapters

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion

9. References
10. Appendices

Topic 4: Title

Title should SUMMARIZE the main idea:

• be concise
• highlight key variables
• full explanatory

Title should not have abbreviations.

Function:

• inform
• statement of content (data based) (L.Q)