Dissertation - Introduction

• Difficult conversations - no time for nurturing
• No time for slacking
• No one will chase you
• Fill in the silence
• Proformas!
• Work back from hand in date - mechanism?
• Time Management - 90% manage/10% craft
• 1000 word proforma
• Talking about research projects
• 8000 - 10000 words
• By March supervisory tutorial
• Abstract 200 words (10% of mark) - written at the end
• Individual support
• Intense tutorials - book early and often - come with ideas
• Initiate independent study
• Research - start with enthusiasm - fall off - must push past the lulls
• Chapter of a book to be taken on to PhD
• Proforma 8th December 2011 and deadline 26th April 2012
• Working Title is ok, worry about title in March
• You sign to say you can acquire the resources
• Bibliography - what are the 5-10 key texts in this field? (total 30-50 texts)
• Emailed response over xmas so I can get going!
• Not nailed down - you can change and re-submit proforma
• Everything you read informs dissertation and must be in Biblio.
• Joined up thinking?
• Methods of research booklet
• Get started! Thinking! Diary! Notebook!
• Four colour pen...
• Library - drill down deep
• Inter library loans/journals/electronic journals/buy
• Run at an idea hard for three days!
• What is out there? What has been done?
• Can i put a spin on it?
• If boring - leave it!
• Need to feel a passion
• Is it doable? in 10000 words?
• Dummy run
• Live it!