ePub - Writing up your Research - Quick Guide 2nd Edition

Dan Remenyi · Frank Bannister

Mar 2012 · Academic Conferences Limited

About this ebook

This new edition of the popular Quick Guide to Writing up your Research has added sections on data management, writing with rigor, common errors in written English and more.

There are always challenges in writing up your research. Sometimes the problem is to do with the process of the actual writing itself and other times it concerns how to ensure that all the aspects of the research which have to be mentioned in a research dissertation are included in the right place and to an appropriate level. If this is addressed appropriately, writing up can be accomplished relatively easily, but if it isn’t managed well writing up can become a burdensome event.


Having a high level overview of what is required when writing up your research is one of the ways of making this job, which many researchers find daunting and arduous, much easier. This book is in four parts: Writing; the Body of the Dissertation; the Leading Pages; and the Appendices.

This book contains the information you need to write up a research dissertation or thesis and how to go about producing this work in a controlled and satisfying way.

About the author

Dr Dan Remenyi is an external member of Faculty at Henley Business School, University of Reading and an Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester and the University of the Witwatersrand. He was for more than a decade a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He teaches Research Methodology and Sociology of Research as well as supervising academic researchers. He has an interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the 'A' rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of a number of Journals in the IS field of study. He holds a B Soc Sc, an MBA and a PhD. Dr Frank Bannister is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Head of the Information Systems Department in Trinity College, Dublin. His main areas of specialization are electronic government, information systems value and privacy, risk and trust in on-line environments. He is one of the founders and remains the editor of the Electronic Journal of e-Government and was a founder, and for a time co-editor, of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation. He is on the boards of a number of journals including Government Information Quarterly and Information Polity. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants in Ireland, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and a Chartered Engineer. He holds a MA, MusB, MSc, CDipAF and PhD.