Thesis and master's thesis quick guide

Useful support material for supervisors

Abstract

Jorma Kananen's Thesis and master's thesis guide for 2019 is above all a summary of the author's previous information books, which have been tried to be structured in a format that helps the author of the thesis. Here, the guide succeeds reasonably well, but to a large extent, the guide is more useful for the supervisor of the thesis than for the author. For the instructor, the guide offers checklists and tacit information from an experienced instructor, which help develop their own instruction and support in the production of learning materials. For students, the guide offers tips on the structure and contents and supports a preliminary familiarization with the methods and their reliability criteria. The guide lacks a section on writing a summary, research ethics perspectives and guidelines for reporting results, which is why the guide needs other literature to support it. This critique supports the use of the guide by making suggestions for appropriate additional reading.

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