a dissertation that includes

Introduction
• The context / issue / problem
• Research territory – overview
• Specific research area – focus on methods of other research in the area
• The gap in existing research – and justification for your research
• Aim

Literature review
1 What is known already ie the research literature in fields related to your question
2 How it is known (ie look for methods)
• organised by topic / research areas
• See Referencing; Research

Methods
• What you did
• Why you did it the way you did

Findings AND discussion organised by theme (at least 3 themes)
You move directly from presenting your findings to discussing how they compare with other research
findings. Your section headings reflect the topics in each.

Conclusions – take-away points from your research
Implications for practice, policy, personal learning and suggestions for future research

Appendix
• working tools (eg questionnaire)
• raw data (eg summary tables)

And finally ….
A summary of all this in 200-300 (max) words, roughly in this order, for your abstract

number of references 20-30