Investigating the Strategies for Writing a Dissertation: The Case of Master Two Students in the Department of at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou

Abstract

The present study revolves around Master two students’ strategies for writing a dissertation. It aims to investigate and identify the strategies that Master two students in the English department follow for writing their dissertations, and if they use them in an effective way. It also aims to know whether those strategies help them to produce a written work of high quality. To reach this aim, Master two students enrolled in the different fields have been taken as a case study. It so relies on Ken Hyland’s (2003) approach to writing. For the sake of empirically investigating the issue, a mixed method approach is adopted. It relates between quantitative and qualitative procedures for data collection and data analysis. The study relies on a questionnaire administered to sixty graduate Master students as well as semi-structured interviews conducted with ten students from the different options. The data gathered from these instruments are analyzed through the Statistical Package For Social Sciences (SPSS) and Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA).The findings of this research reveal that the participants are conscious these strategies ,so they are expected to plan ,revise ,and edit their Dissertations before submitting them. The results show that these strategies help students to produce a well written and academic dissertation.