Author:

(A) Find out exactly what your institution’s requirements are for a dissertation
(B) Make sure you are familiar with the hardware and software you plan to use
(C) Apply for clearance of your project through an ethics committee
(D) All of the above

(A) Be alert to the possibility of exposure to danger
(B) Avoid interviewing alone in the respondent’s residence
(C) Make sure someone knows where you are and how you can contact them in an
emergency
(D) All of the above

(A) To give you something to do in the early stages of your research when nothing is
happening
(B) Because funding councils generally demand to see written evidence that you were
working every day during the period of the research
(C) Because funding councils generally demand to see written evidence that you were
working every day during the period of the research
(D) It can be added to your dissertation to ensure that you reach the required word limit

(A) Your sample frame and sampling strategy
(B) The ethical issues that might arise
(C) Negotiating access to the setting
(D) All of the above

(A) Your academic status and experience
(B) The difficulties you encountered with your previous reading on the topic
(C) Your choice of research methods and reasons for choosing them
(D) All of the above

(A) If they guide your literature search
(B) If they are linked together to help you construct a coherent argument
(C) If they force you to narrow the scope of your research
(D) All of the above