Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects: Practical Guidance and Examples

Writing Built Environment Dissertations and Projects will help you to write a good dissertation or project by giving you a good understanding of what should be included, and showing you how to use data collection and analysis tools in the course of your research.

• Addresses prominent weaknesses in under-graduate dissertations including weak data collection; superficial analysis and poor reliability and validity
• Includes many more in-depth examples making it easy to understand and assimilate the concepts presented
• Issues around study skills and ethics are embedded throughout the book and the many examples encourage you to consider the concepts of reliability and validity
• Second edition includes a new chapter on laboratory based research projects
• Supporting website with sample statistical calculations and additional examples from a wider range of built environment subjects

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built environment dissertation; built environment project; built environment student; civil engineering projects; data analysis; data analysis tools; data collection; descriptive statistics; dissertation structure; exemplar research proposals; glossary of research terms; good dissertation; inferential statistics; laboratory based research projects; Laboratory experiments; Literature review; methodological design; Methodology; project structure; Qualitative data analysis; qualitative methodology; qualitative research; Quantitative data analysis; reliability; research ethics; Research goals; Research hypothesis; research proposal; Review of theory; sample statistical calculations; study skills; technical civil engineering projects; validity