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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND EUROPEAN STUDIES

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TAUGHT BACHELOR’S THESIS REPORT FORM

 

Student Name: ________________________________________________________

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Working Title of Thesis: ___________________________________________

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(Additional sheets for other meetings to be appended as necessary)

Reasons for Reporting of Unsatisfactory Progress:

 

 

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Subsequent Action Taken:

 

 

End of Thesis Report:

Date of thesis submission for examination:

 

Was a draft of the thesis submitted for comments prior to submission: Yes/No

 

If No estimate % of thesis seen in draft form prior to submission:

 

 

Comments:

I confirm that the above is a true record of the supervision of this thesis.

 

Signed (Student):

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APPENDIX C:

LITERATURE REVIEW

 

In order to find out what research other people have done on your chosen topic, you will need to undertake a literature search. Your review of the literature will then act as a background against which you can carry out and report your own research. As Jankowicz points out (1991, p. 116).

Knowledge doesn't exist in a vacuum, and your work only has value in relation to other people's. Your work and your findings will be significant only to the extent that they're the same as, or different from, other people's work and findings.

 

What is needed is a ‘critical review which demonstrates some awareness of the current state of knowledge on the subject, its limitations, and how the proposed research aims to add to what is known’ (Gill and Johnson, 1991, p.21).

 

What follows are some practical suggestions on how to undertake an effective literature review:

 

1. Start off by referring to some books and articles on the topic of your research. Your supervisor should be able to advise you. From these, by following up the references, you will be able to trace more specific publications, which will in turn guide you to others, and so on. You probably need to use the inter-library loan system because it is unlikely that the average academic library will have all the relevant books and articles.

 

2. If you are unable to trace any previous research on your topic, try broadening your search. For example, if you are researching the use of staff appraisal systems in voluntary organisations and you cannot find any previous research on it, look at staff appraisal generally. You will soon find that the literature is vast! It then becomes a case of narrowing down to some aspect of staff appraisal that is relevant to your research question.

 

3. When you are writing up your literature review, you will probably need to divide it into sections in order to make the review manageable and reader friendly. What sections you will have will very much depend on what you find in the literature.

 

4. As a general rule, when writing up the review, deal with the more general material first and then gradually narrow down towards your particular research question.

 

5. Another rule of thumb is to deal with the literature in chronological order so that the reader can see how the research activity of others has developed over the years.

 

Sometimes you will find that these rules of thumb (paragraphs 4 and 5) conflict with each other. If so, you will need to make a judgement about what makes most sense in the context of your particular research.

 

6. Remember that you are expected to carry out a critical review of the literature. It is not enough simply to list and describe what has been done by researchers. You need to summarise and compare the pieces of research to see how they differ (in their approaches, research methods, and findings) and to see whether any common themes emerge. Aim for what Gill and Johnson (1991) call an ‘insightful evaluation’ of the literature (p.21).

 

You should then use the results of the review as a backdrop to your own research. The review can help you to plan parts of your own research, and you should use the key ideas from the review in your own discussion of your results; e.g. how your findings fit in with the previous research.

 

7. Opinions about how long a literature review should be vary greatly. Literature reviews of 15% - 25% of the total word count of the thesis are not uncommon.

 

8. You need to be fastidious in the way you keep details of the publications consulted. Some people advocate the use of index cards (one for each publication) with a summary of the research and enough detail to enable you to cite the work correctly in ‘References’ at the end of your thesis (e.g. title, and title of journal where relevant), author, date, of publication, publisher, page numbers, and a brief note on the content of the article or book in question). Alternatively, you can use a suitable computer database for keeping your records of the publications consulted.

 

9. You should aim to complete a reasonably comprehensive literature review before carrying out the substantive part of your own research; this is because what you find out in the literature review can help you to refine your research question and your research method.

 

In one sense you will not be able to achieve a complete review before your own data collection because research will continue to be published during the period of your own research; but you should aim to complete most of the review as early as possible (otherwise you might find, half way through your data collection, that someone else has already done it).

 

10. The sources which you should search include books, articles, theses and thesiss, government reports research papers, conference papers, abstracts and reviews, library catalogues and on-line databases. Librarians and your supervisor should be able to offer useful guidance. Many professional bodies have libraries which might be relevant to your particular topic.

 

Further reading on literature reviews

Bell (1987) chapters 3 and 4, including pp 20 - 1; an extract from a literature review as

an illustration. Gill and Johnson (1991) pp. 21 - 22. Jankowicz (1991) chapter 8.

 

References:

Bell, J., (1987). Doing Your Research Project. Open University Press.

Gill, J. and Johnson, P., (1991). Research Methods for Manager. Paul Chapman.

Jankowicz, A., (1991). Business Research Projects for Students. Chapman and Hall.

APPENDIX D:

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS




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