Doing Your Undergraduate Project

Denis Reardon

Aug 2006 · SAGE

About this eBook

Doing Your Undergraduate Project is a practical step-by-step guide to managing and developing a successful undergraduate project. The book covers all aspects of project management, explaining in a clear and structured way how to undertake a project and helping readers to identify and acquire the necessary skills to plan and carry out the research and writing.

This practical and concise book provides:

• Advice for preparing a project and choosing a topic
• Guidelines for writing a project proposal
• A checklist for planning
• A guide to producing a literature review
• Advice on choosing and implementing appropriate methodology
• An awareness of ethical issues
• Information for writing-up the report.

Written in a lively and engaging manner, this detailed and accessible manual is an invaluable resource for students across the social sciences working on their undergraduate project.


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About the author

Denis Reardon currently works as a freelance researcher and writer, and was formerly a principal lecturer in the School of Information Studies, and more recently a visiting lecturer in Knowledge Management and Project Management, at UCE.