title: The sonata form of musical composition as a framework for thesis writing.
abstract: In response to Watson's challenge to view the usual in new ways, this article introduces an innovation in writing Master's research and suggests that other structures may offer new and different frameworks for reporting nursing research. This is exemplified by reference to an example of nursing research which adopted the sonata-form of musical composition as the framework for presentation of the thesis.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Science, UNITEC - Insititute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Maurice C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Drake
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003210:Concept Formation; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D004645:Empathy; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009146:Music; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012107:Research Design; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013561:Symbolism; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing