Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 : Overview of the Master's Degree and Thesis -- Chapter 2 : Selecting a research topic -- Chapter 3 : Using the literature to research your problem -- Chapter 4 : Conducting ethical research -- Chapter 5 : How to write Chapter One, Introduction -- Chapter 6 : How to write Chapter Two, Literature review -- Chapter 7 : How to write Chapter Three, Methods -- Chapter 8 : How to write Chapter Four, results and findings -- Chapter 9 : How to write Chapter Five, Discussion -- Chapter 10 : Wrapping it all up.

The Third Edition of How to Write a Master′s Thesis is a comprehensive manual on how to plan and write a five-chapter master's thesis, and a great resource for graduate students looking for concrete, applied guidance on how to successfully complete their master′s degrees. While research methods and statistics courses may teach students the basic information on how to conduct research, putting it all together into a single project and document can be a challenge. Author Yvonne Bui demystifies this process by integrating the language learned in prerequisite methods and statistics courses into a step-by-step guide for developing a student′s own thesis or project