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    How to Write a Dissertation: An Instructional Manual for Dissertation Writers.
    How to Write a Dissertation: An Instructional Manual for Dissertation Writers.
    How to Write a Dissertation: An Instructional Manual for Dissertation Writers.
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    How to Write a Dissertation: An Instructional Manual for Dissertation Writers.

    By Benjamin Baisai Silas Madondo

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    A retired extensionist after thirty four years of public extension service. He was formerly trained at Chibero college of agriculture.He served in three provinces as head in three provinces of Mashonaland and midlands respectively..Some of the highlights of his carreer include taking women into extension as extension workers at field levels.He also engaged black officers to work in European areas as advisers; a new dimension that was unique. Discrimination on the use of public utilities was abolished during his time. Black and white officer operation was integrated into one service.

    Extension as a discipline offered interesting challenges to the discipline. It was transformed into an academic discipline from one that had confined workers to the sole use of the hoe to the one that was upgraded to the use of a pen and paper backed by officers who used the motor bike to a four wheeled vehicle. After retiring from public service he joined the Zimbabwe Open University as Senior lecturer-a post he holds currently. Benjamin owns a commercial farm of 190 hectars where he raises beef cattle and grows crops under normal conditions. He holds a master's degree and is working for DPHIL programme with the Zimbabwe Open University. Benjamin is married with one wife and has one son and daughter who are mature. He has three grand children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 19, 2013
    ISBN9781491805343
    How to Write a Dissertation: An Instructional Manual for Dissertation Writers.
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    Benjamin Baisai Silas Madondo

    Benjamin was born in 1948 and is a retired agricultural extensionist who served in public services for over thirty years.He is a senior lecturer in extension with the Zimbabwe Open University, after serving in three provinces of Manicaland, Masholand Central and Midlands provinces as head of province. Highlights of his career include taking women extension workers as field staff who competed quite favourably with male extension staff. He also fought for black and white officer integration for them to work in white commercial areas offering the same services. His ambitions in extension were to see the black farmer compete with the white farmers. Benjamin had a family of four children, two sons of whom played cricket and rugby for the country at national level and a daughter. His ambition is to make a contribution to education in agricultural education and extension services.

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      How to Write a Dissertation - Benjamin Baisai Silas Madondo

      © 2013 by Benjamin Baisai Silas Madondo. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 08/07/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-0529-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-0534-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013914285

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Chapter 1 What Is A Dissertation?

      Chapter 2 Literature Review

      Chapter 3 Materials And Methods

      Chapter 4 Results

      Chapter 5 Discussion

      Chapter 6 Conclusion And Recommendations

      Chapter 7 Designing Good Tables

      Chapter 8 Guidelines In Using Measurement Units

      Chapter 9 Authors

      Chapter 10 References

      Chapter 11 Oral Presentations Of Results

      Chapter 12 Allocating Gender To Gender-Neutral Terms

      Chapter 13 Case Studies On Abstracts

      Bibliography

      Appendices

      Glossary

      About The Author

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      Chapter 1

      What is a dissertation?

      Objectives:

      This chapter defines what a dissertation is and tells the student:

      •   Why the author carried out the study

      •   The extent of the problem and why a particular method was used

      Introduction

      The academic characteristic of a thesis or dissertation is its length. The work of a thesis is the result of protracted and sustained research done over a considerable period, usually 2-4 years. It generally contains an extensive literature review as well as the results of several experiments, all of which are focused on testing a single hypothesis.

      A good introduction is relatively short. It covers the topic and it is precise in the fewest of words without boredom to its readers.

      •   In general it—tells why the reader should find the thesis of interest tells why the author carried out the research gives the background the reader needs to understand and judge the thesis

      •   Specifically it—defines the nature and extent of the problems studied relates the research to the previous work-perhaps by a brief review of the literature, but only that which is clearly relevant to the problem. explains the objectives and methods of investigation, including, if necessary, the reason why a particular method was chosen defines any

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