Thank you for the updated proposal it is improved, we may need to tweak the actual research problem identification and problem statement and the aim and objectives in the introduction chapter when we see everything in place, but at the moment they look to be ok for moving forward at this stage.
OK we are at the starting point, let’s commence with the introduction chapter. However, at this point, the aim and objectives and the research methods still need some more work for the level required in a dissertation, but we can work that one through as we move on. Let’s take this chapter by chapter, first the introduction, then the literature review, followed by research methods, data collection, analysis and conclusion.
Please remember that you will have to identify a research problem statement, from there define a focused aim and carry out the research. It is at that stage that you can introduce a case study organisation, you will need to provide the background and establish the problem statement in alignment to your study, then apply the findings of the research to the case organisation to provide a real-world context to your work and discuss its effectiveness. The initial focus must be on the academic study for a dissertation.
The introduction chapter sets the stage for what will be presented in the pages that follow it and should include:
1) The background to the study leading to a statement of the dissertation problem
The first section of the dissertation introduction section is the background to inform the reader of the origins and rationale for the study. Try to be specific in relation to the focus of your study. This leads to a statement of the problem your dissertation addresses. You are showing the reader why your dissertation is important. In this section of the introductory chapter of the dissertation tell the reader what major problems your dissertation will address and how your dissertation will fill any research gaps. Through writing, show the reader why your dissertation matters and how it might help the field.
2) A brief overview of the dissertation study, leading to the research questions
Next, provide a brief overview of the dissertation study for the reader. More specifically, in the introduction section of your dissertation you should briefly summarize your major dissertation research questions which have focused the aims and objectives
3) The specific aims and objectives of the dissertation -. These need to be clearly and unambiguously shown as the work will need to establish whether or not they have been achieved later in the analysis / conclusion. Hence they should be clear and measurable.
Please can you write the aim and objective in the following way:
The aim of this dissertation is………….(no more than 12 words)
The objectives of this dissertation are……….(no more than 4 bullet points of 10 words or less).
The objectives are the elements that will help you achieve the aim; these should be measurable. There will need to be a discussion on whether or not these have been achieved in the conclusion to the dissertation.
The objectives should show higher order skills such (for example) as “Critically appraise”, Critically determine / evaluate” or “Synthesize”.
Your stated aim should have three characteristics:
• It should follow as a logical consequence of the problem statement. You identify a problem, and your aim is to address it; you have to be clear about what the problem is.
• It should be singular. You must identify only one aim. This is not easy to do. Students often show magnificent ingenuity in stringing all the aims they want to include into the same sentence.
• The conclusions in your last chapter must respond to this aim. Obvious? Each of the examiners of my own thesis pointed out that I had promised one thing, and delivered another. Over the months you work on your thesis, it is easy to forget the relationship of the introduction to the final conclusion. When you have written the last sentence of your conclusions, go back and re-read your aim. If the conclusions don’t respond to the aim, you had better rewrite it; and don’t forget, you will also need to rewrite the problem statement that leads up to it.
4) A brief overview of the research philosophy, approach and methodology.
Tell the reader the general philosophy, the approach – inductive / deductive etc, and the methodology quantitative / qualitative etc.
5) A discussion about the significance of your study
In this section of our dissertation introduction chapter you should discuss the significance of your dissertation. This section will help the reader not only understand the dissertation’s
significance, but tell the reader how your dissertation might address the problem at hand.
6) A description of the various dissertation chapters.
In the final section of your dissertation introduction, briefly tell the reader what is in the dissertation chapters that follow. Tell them what is in dissertation chapter two through to the concluding dissertation chapter. In other words, you provide the reader with a clear road map.
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