Report on How to Write a Thesis

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MASTER IN EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

BEST PRACTICES

Leadership Styles of Male and Female School Head

NAME: MOHD KAMAL MUHSIN BIN MOHD YUNUS (2012929679)

FADHIL MANAF ( )

SUBMISSION DATE: 7 NOVEMBER 2013

LECTURER: ASSOC. PROF. DR. ABU BAKAR IBRAHIM


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TABLE OF CONTENT

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Chapter 1 ( Introduction ) 3

2. Chapter 2 (Literature Review) 5

3. Chapter 3 (Methodology) 7

4. Chapter 4 (Data Analysis) 9

5. Chapter 5 (Conclusion, Recommendation) 11

6. References 12


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1.0Chapter 1 ( Introduction )

The best practice done of our senior with specific title is Leadership Styles of Male and

Female School Head shows us on how important to have a good thesis in the end. First and

foremost, emphasizing on chapter one it is very crucial because of it is an introduction to overall

report on what we have to write in. So, in simple word, it is actually an abstract as a whole of

everything. So, there are several subtopics that we have to focus such background of study,

objective, problem statement, and research question, significance of study, limitation of study

and definition of term used. First, background of study is actually to a writer to write relate to the

study he or she wants to complete. So it is like a short brief to the reader to know what actually a

researcher wants to research. For example, in the thesis that we have referred to, he was

explained on what is the definition with details plus with supported research done by other

researcher. He was explained what is leadership, its criteria and concepts and he gave chances to

the reader to explore more on his research. Next is about objective; what is the reason or purpose

we want to study. For example, the objectives stated in dissertation that we referred to are

focusing in three main area which are identify leadership styles, to compare and contrast male

and female school head and lastly to investigate leadership style with gender. The reason why we

rewrite again to ensure or to show that he was narrowed down his objectives in order to help him

directly before he went off of conducts his research. Then, next subtopic is problem statement.


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People would not do any research if there are no problems behind it. So, because of problem,

research can be conducted. Example, he was covered on bias, isolation, gender discrimination in

higher position are the main problems why he do this research at the first place. So that, reader

would have a better picture in head and it will be easy to the reader or even to the writer to

connect with one chapter to another chapter. Research question is actually a guide to a writer to

write a thesis because of in each study, a writer must know what he/her wants. One of the

examples of the thesis that we had referred to is about whatare the leadership styles adopted by

the school head?So, from this kind of question, it will lead to what kind of methodology that

will be used in future. Actually, from the research question, reader will have a better

understanding about the research itself. If the research question is not carry out properly, wrong

method will be used and findings will be wronged. On the other hand, Limitation of study is our

limit that we set up in order to keep us on track of writing up a thesis. A broad thesis actually is

not a very good research because it is not specific into a small scope. Example, limitation of this

researchs focus in Sarawak with only selected school. So, with this kind of limitation, it gives a

big chance to the researchers to focus and concentrate his studies. Last but not list, the term used

in writing a thesis. It is very crucial part because reader might have a problem while reading a

thesis because the term used is not familiar. So that, it acts like a dictionary to the reader in order

to have a better understanding in reading a thesis. In last part, it is a summarization of chapter 1,

which is stress on again on overall as holistic in order to ensure the reader keep track on the

research that researcher done. Constructive comment on the thesis that we referred to is actually

the writer done quite impressive job on cover up all the research done by other researcher or also

he ambitious to do this research since there are a problem behind it. With this kind of research, it


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can prove that gender bias it is a big issue in the world since there have a data proves by other

researcher.

2.0Chapter 2 (Literature Review)

Next is chapter two, as a world named it as literature review; in literature review, a writer

needs to make a research about the topic that he/her wants to dig in. In this chapter, it will tell us

from head to toe about the topic. It starts with the introduction as fundamental to the reader.

Basically, in chapter one, it also has an introduction but the differ between these two is in chapter

twos introduction, more details concept will be explained thoroughly in order to ensure the

reader knows better what the thesis is all about. For an example, thesis that we have referred, the

introduction of chapter two explained very details about what exactly leadership is and in last

paragraph , he wrote up about what he will do in this chapter such covers the roles of school

heads, leadership and gender, differences between leadership styles of men and women and the

summary of this chapter. In clearer picture, leadership has a lot of definition, characteristic,

criteria and so on and so forth that a writer needs to cover. It is not easy to write up a literature

review because of if not relate to the study, reader will might have confused and that kind of

thesis will be considered as not very good thesis. The most important things, every quote that we

write in must have supported by other researcher findings because it can produce a good thesis

plus can be trusted in term of research. Instead of acknowledge them with citation; plagiarism

can be avoided since we are in very transparent world right now because everything can be got it


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as simple as that. Constructive comments that can be wrote about the chapter two regarding the

thesis that we refer to are he is actually knows what he was doing in this chapter because the way

we wrote is basically according to sequence. Means, he knows the priority what comes first and

what comes last. So as a reader, we have that momentum to be maintained all the while we read

this thesis. Plus with better explanation and supported citation, it helps much on this thesis

research. Closure up with short summarization in the end of the chapter it was helps the reader

because some reader might be not into reading but with summarization it helps a bit.


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actually keep the writer on track and help reader in future to have a better understanding while

reading this dissertation. Next is about instrumentation. When touch about the instrumentation, it

is actually tools that will be using in future. Example, semi structured interview and

questionnaire and he was adopted from other researcher instruments in order to conduct the

research. For clearer picture, he was using existing developed instruments as proposed by

Frankel and Wallen (2007) and it is advisable to select and already developed instruments as

they are experts in this field. From these tools, better result will be gained and research will have

a very high validity and reliability. Constructive comment regarding this chapter is actually he

took a safe steps because he chose and existing instruments instead of develop a new instrument

in conducting this research. There will be no time constraints but in term of skills might probably

he lacks on that.


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4.0Chapter 4 ( Data Analysis)

In chapter 4 is result and collecting data. In this chapter, data are collected by the method

that we are chosen. Most of us are familiar with questionnaires as a means of collecting data,

however, it is important that you think carefully about which data collection tool is most suitable

for our dissertation, and the most practical before we decide. There are many different types of

questions and questionnaires ranging from closed types where the participants can more

open types which invite individual comments and responses. According to this dissertation, the

survey design is used to collect data for describing population of respondent from a sample of

using multistage cluster sampling. In this study the information is collected through

questionnaires distributed to respondent. This design is chosen to meet the objectives of the

study, namely to study the leadership styles between different genders among them. Quantitative

research methods attempt to maximize objectivity, reliability and generalizability of finding and

are typically interested in prediction. Quantitative methods are frequently described as deductive

in nature, in the sense that inferences from tests of statistical hypotheses lead to general

inferences about characteristics of a population. For the purpose of this study, questionnaires

adapted from Simon Oates (2010) will distribute to each respondents to identify the leadership

style adopted by student leader. Other than that, interview was conducted to have a clearer view

of the leadership styles practiced by the school head. Semi-structured interview was chosen as

part of the instruments in this study. In these contexts, the researcher is also often more closely

involved with the respondent and as a result these types of data collection tools are sometimes

seen as producing data that is more subjective. All the information from this interview is

recorded in this chapter. The most important this in this chapter, it is easy to get tied up in knots


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with data collection, but remember it is what we do with the data that really counts, not how

much we collect.


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5.0 Chapter 5 ( Conclusion, Recommendation )

The last chapter is discussion and conclusion. One of the most interesting and important

part of our dissertation is the analysis/discussion of the results. This is where we will try and

draw some useful conclusion from the research that we have carried out. From this research,

what the researcher trying to do is in this section is to put his findings into context of previous

research (most useful this would be in research that his identified in literature review). For the

conclusion part, this chapter tents to be much shorter than the discussion. It is not mere

summary of the research, but need to be concluded as to main points that have emerged and

what they mean for our field. Plus, in this chapter, all the objective need must be accomplished in

order to ensure the findings that we have are based on the objectives in earlier chapter. So, we

strengthen all the objectives stated with attached with the data collected to support our research

in order to make our research reliable.


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6.0 Chapter 6 (Reference)

1.

Jumiran, A. B. (2011). Leadership Styles of Male and Female School Head.Shah Alam.

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