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Writing Your MRes Dissertation - Strategies and Techniques for Effective Writing

This session explores strategies and techniques for effective writing in your MRes dissertation. Topics covered include understanding your audience, structuring your dissertation, editing techniques, and utilizing feedback opportunities.

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Writing Your MRes Dissertation - Strategies and Techniques for Effective Writing

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  1. Welcome Please take a seat near the frontof the lecture theatre. Thank you!

  2. Writing Your MRes Dissertation The Writing Development Centre Contact: wdc@ncl.ac.uk @ncl_wdc Writing Development Centre Explore the possibilities

  3. Today’s session • Your audience: • Where to pitch • Their expectations • Structure • Editing techniques and decision-making strategies

  4. Two ‘modes’ of writing Writing as tool for thinking Writing as tool for communicating

  5. Writing for a reader: where to pitch • Compare the two journal extracts: how do they differ? • With your markers in mind, which approach might be more suitable for your dissertation? • What features are used to make the writing more accessible?

  6. Writing for your reader: editing your work • The ‘Challenge Read’ Technique • Signposting and structure • Criticality • Utilise feedback opportunities

  7. Structure

  8. The readers’ questions approach: the introduction

  9. Methods • Straightforward – which method did you use? • Cite as much as possible • Where might you need to expand? • Unusual method? • Deviation from standard procedure? • Majority of data based on one method?

  10. Results or discussion: description or analysis? Read through the statements. Mark each one with D or A depending on whether you think it is description or analysis. (Mark with ? the ones which could be either).

  11. Results • What did you find? • Avoid questions/vague statements when labelling figures etc.

  12. Discussion and future work • What does your data tell us? • Are you confident about this? • If not, how could your data be validated? • What contribution does your data make? • Where do we go from here (what would the next project be?)?

  13. Abstract • Why? The first section puts the project in the context of current knowledge and gives the purpose of the work. • How? This section explains how the research was conducted. • What? The main findings of the project are presented in brief. • So what? The abstract concludes with a brief explanation of the implications or applications of the study. • See also: https://www.nature.com/documents/nature-summary-paragraph.pdf

  14. Useful link: Academic Phrasebank http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/

  15. Structure: decisions, decisions • Combining results and discussion • ‘Moveable Feasts’

  16. The Writing Process

  17. The Writing Development CentreLevel 2, Philip Robinson Library Undergraduate - Masters - PhD Our team of expert tutors offers: - One to one tutorials - Online resources including our Blog - Activities including Write Here, Write Now Visit us online: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/subject-support/wdc/ HASS – SAgE - FMS

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