Doing a Master's Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics

Lindy Woodrow is Honorary Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• AcknowledgmentsList of tables List of figures Chapter 1 Introduction Part I Project design Chapter 2 Choosing a topic Chapter 3 Reviewing the literature Chapter 4 Methodological approach Chapter 5 The dissertation proposal Chapter 6 Supervisors and supervision Part II The research procedure Chapter 7 Data collection Chapter 8 Data analysis Part III Writing the dissertationChapter 9 General writing guidelines Chapter 10 Writing the literature review chapter Chapter 11 writing the methodology chapter Chapter 12 Writing the results and discussion chapters Chapter 13 Beginning and ending the dissertation Part IV Dissertation submissionChapter 14 The finishing touches Chapter 15 The examination and beyond Chapter 16 Resources Glossary Index

"This is a comprehensive and accessible book which gives practical guidance to students new to the research process and which clearly draws on the author’s experience of supervising masters' dissertations. It assumes little knowledge, provides engaging examples and anecdotes to make ideas concrete and meaningful, and takes students through the entire process from critical groundwork to the publishing of articles based on their dissertations. It promises to be an extremely useful resource."Neil Murray, University of Warwick, UK"Lindy Woodrow’s extensive experience of research supervision and teaching academic writing ensures that Doing a Master’s Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics is the ideal, step-by-step guide for students who are planning, researching and writing their dissertation. Relevant extracts from recent TESOL and applied linguistics masters' dissertations in the UK, Australia and USA enrich the wealth of advice provided."Sue Starfield, University of New South Wales, Australia"[...] A comprehensive and practical guidebook [...] this book would have made my dissertation writing more manageable, its goals more visible, and its difficulties more able to be prepared for."Yali Liu, Journal of English for Academic Purposes