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Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - Last Formal Meeting
- Sense of urgency - not just do it - live it
- You can not take a month out for xmas
- Take 5/6 days off and graft for three weeks
- Some get a degree thru their delivery not their progress
- Opportunity for MA needs 2:1 or First
- To Do Lists - colour pen!
- get everything out of your head
- certain things cannot be put aside
- 'what i have achieved'
- do not start tomorrow...
- Proforma due date guarantees feedback before xmas
- Not marked but needs to be signed off
- "This is what I intend to do..."
- "This is why it is important..."
- Relevance/significance
- Who are the key people? Monographs
- What are the key texts? Photo Books?
- You sign to say you can get the resources
- Coherent (not polished)
- Next term is tutorials only - supervisor cannot chase us
- 1500 words sent prior to tutorial
- Also next term = Outside talkers and portfolio review
Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - 'Abstract'
- Look at it from the readers perspective
- Academic discourse
- The role of the supervisor
- Marked by Karen, second marked by someone in the related field
- Third examiner - external will do three, plus all firsts and fails and borders (49/59/69)
- 1 - Looks at the title (must not be an either or, not binary oppositions)
- Run title changes by Karen
- Lure the reader in
- 2 - Scrutinises the Bibliography
- Need to be good and needs to be accurate
- True and substantial
- Build it as you go
- Look also at bibliographies in books you are reading
- Everything that has informed your writing
- Not just what you quote from
- 5-14 pages!
- 3 - Abstract
- Mandatory
- You write it last
- It is an account of what you have done
- It gives the game away first
- What you say needs to be evidenced in the 'paper'
- 200 words - not verbose -tightly written
- revelation
- compared (comparative analysis)
- names - substantiated
- 4 - Discourse (level of language)
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- 'clarity of exposition'
- do not start 'i shall...'
- see how others do it - make it interesting
- whack it out in any speak (never submit)
- Then you craft it
- Harden up soft language
- Setup - establish
- Can add things to footnote if you don't want to break flow of text
- eg Sontag suggests
- Quotes need to have (who, year)
- use of the word 'i' in conclusion
- it could be proposed
- it could be argued
- such and such says... however it could be argued
- Remember this may not be the only valid arguement
- 28th Nov - Looking at proposals
- Make them substantial so feedback can be given
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