This book is designed to raise students' awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation/thesis written in English. It deals primarily with the linguistic aspects of extended pieces of writing, placing great emphasis on the writer's responsibility for the readability of the text.
Linda Cooley is the ordinator of the postgraduate English programmes run by the English Centre for the Graduate School at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in teaching writing at postgraduate level and has designed discipline-specific dissertation writing courses for students in real estate and construction, education, dentistry and business. Jo Lewkowicz is an associate professor in the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong, where she teaches on the MA in Applied Linguistics and on the Graduate School's dissertation writing course. Her research interests include language testing, programme evaluation and postgraduate literacy and she has published extensively in all three areas.