How does completing a dissertation transform undergraduate students’ understandings of disciplinary knowledge?

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How does completing a dissertation transform undergraduate students’ understandings of disciplinary knowledge?

Dissertations are positioned as the capstone of an undergraduate degree, bringing together what students have previously learned from their programmes through a piece of independent research. However, there is limited research into the ways in which engaging in a dissertation has an impact on studen...

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Main Authors:	Ashwin, Paul, Abbas, Andrea, McLean, Monica
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2016
Subjects:	Dissertations academic knowledge students sociology
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32500/

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