Crafting Your Thesis

Making Use of Qualitative Approaches

Johan Alvehus

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032811567
• eBook ISBN: 9781040095782
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

At the beginning of writing a thesis, many questions arise, for example:

• How do I know that I have formulated a relevant research problem?
• Have I chosen the right empirical method?
• Are interviews or observations appropriate?
• How should I structure my text to get my point across in the best way?
• What exactly is a theory?
• How can the quality of my work be assessed?

Crafting Your Thesis is a broad and accessible handbook in qualitative methods that gives you clear and concise answers to these questions – and many more. The book can be used both in introductory university courses, where you as a student encounter questions of method for perhaps the first time, and right up to Master's thesis level, where it gives a quick overview of different available qualitative methods and highlights questions that must be dealt with when crafting the thesis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface to the English edition
• 1 Introduction
• Part 1: Method
• Part 2 Writing
• Part 3 Fieldwork
• Part 4 At the desk
• References
• Index