Specialities Of Writing a Law Dissertation Methodology
A major part of your international law dissertation is the methodology. This chapter is a description of the research methods that you chose to use for your project. You will describe whether you used quantitative or qualitative methods or if you combined them. You will also need to describe why you used your chosen research method. In the methodology it isn’t enough to say that “you thought” or “you were interested in.” You have to give a detailed academic explanation of your choices.
Research method: There are several different research methods that are commonly used. These include:
- Interviews
- Observations
- Questionnaires
- Documentary analysis
Structure: You will need to be clear about the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen research methods and how you plan on addressing them. You should also make a note of any issues that you found so that a person duplicating the study will know how to work around the problems.
You will then need to talk about your research questions and how you intend on addressing each of them.
You should discuss how reliable you think the results were due to the research methods chosen. You will go into more detail about this when writing your discussion chapter.
The purpose of your research may even be to test whether or not your research methods work under certain conditions.
The conclusion for your methodology should summarize your research methods, the theoretical concepts behind them and what you predict the key challenges will be when you are conducting your research. You should bear in mind that you will need to revisit many of these areas in the discussion chapter.
Final thoughts: You should think very carefully about the methods that you choose to use for your commercial law dissertation because they are crucial to the overall success of your research. Before you start your project, you should speak to your thesis supervisor. They will be able to provide you with expert advice on what the most effective research methods will be for your study. You should also spend time analyzing other similar dissertations and see what research methods they chose to use and how successful the study was because of it.
Don’t be afraid to change your research methods, if you start off for example using questionnaires and you feel that the answers are too vague you can change to interviews so that you can get some more detailed answers.