This eBook is about charting a course for students at undergraduate level to be

successful in writing their dissertation or project. Alongside this, it is primarily a

support for academic staff who have a supervision role at undergraduate level,

especially those who are new to this in their career. It also has wider readership

potential for Masters Level supervisors as many of the same supervision and

academic writing issues extend to both sectors. Some of the key issues that have

emerged in the literature on supervision at undergraduate level are relevant to the

case of Masters research supervision also. Important factors for the supervisor of

both levels exist such as avoiding conflict of interest between themselves and their

student, as well as experiencing the possibilities of both variable workloads and

quality of supervision. This is especially important as the number of students being

supervised is on the rise, and the ability of individual staff to carry out their other

duties is becoming more constrained which can result in less time being available for

supervision of each student and the quality of their supervision perhaps suffering.

Therefore it is a very useful online resource for all supervisors to have on their

desktop/laptop as it provides useful insights into ways in which students can be

assisted with writing, as well as being a very useful and flexible starting place for

all students to have as they write.

There are chapters in the eBook from around the world, and from different

disciplines and contexts, so it is instantly obvious that writing and supervising a

good undergraduate dissertation is a global challenge, and this eBook can help

meet it! We believe this eBook is necessary as there are many texts available

today to help Masters and Doctoral students write their thesis, and further work

oriented at supervisors at these levels, to provide guidance, support and

pedagogies for the postgraduate research supervision process, but the

undergraduate student and supervisor seem to have been neglected along the way.

We are supervisors ourselves and so are all the contributing authors; so this eBook

is written by supervisors and for supervisors! The examples and exercises

provided in many chapters will be helpful in addressing problems that can arise in

both the writing and supervising of an undergraduate dissertation or project.