Research: Theory to Practice
One day intensive seminar for research students
A Saturday workshop (10-3 pm) covering rationales and research questions, methodologies and methods, style in academic writing, literature reviews and analysis techniques.
This program is designed for Honours, Masters (research & Coursework minor theses) and Ph.D candidates.
The seminar covers the following themes:
- Theme 1: the theory of research
- Theme 2: the (critical) literature review
- Theme 3: substantive rationales: focused research questions: effective data collection techniques
- Theme 4: types of supplementary tasks (critical reviews/annotated bibliographies);
- Theme 5: structuring a thesis
- Theme 6: citation and referencing: techniques and rationale
- Theme 7: plagiarism & paraphrasing
- Theme 8: style in academic writing
- Theme 9: case study of the case study
- Theme 10: the pragmatics of research & the ‘do-ability’ factor
Free. All welcome. To register interest, contact: Matthew.Piscioneri@monash.edu