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“An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style, Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety of approaches that are critical, multidisciplinary, and productive.”
Designing your Own Projects
Designing your Own Projects
This chapter is intended to help you think about planning and conducting your own small-scale research project.1 Our discussion is organized around the key decisions every researcher has to make: what question to investigate, what kind of data to collect, how to analyse the data and how to structure a written account of the research. To illustrate it concretely, we will refer to projects carried out by three of our own students, Ksenija Bogetić, Tamar Holoshitz and Beth McCarthy.2
The idea of ‘doing research’ can seem daunting, but anxiety often stems from unrealistic ideas about what is expected. At PhD level, research has to make a substantial and original contribution to knowledge in a particular academic discipline. Below that level, however, ...
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