Summary
Contents
Subject index
Making Supervision Work For You discusses the entire supervision process from the student’s perspective, as well as considering the supervisor’s viewpoint and constraints. The author covers all phases of the student’s ‘journey’, from induction through to final completion and examination of the thesis and the viva voce. The book illustrates many of the key issues in supervision by drawing upon extensive material from recent interviews with a range of supervisors and students.
Submitting Your Dissertation and Preparing for Assessment
Submitting Your Dissertation and Preparing for Assessment
Chapter Aims
This chapter considers:
- the interaction between the written and oral aspects of assessment;
- what needs to be done before final submission;
- the traditional structure for a dissertation;
- regulations from different universities;
- what the key criteria are and what they mean to people;
- different interpretations of what makes a ‘good’ thesis;
- what examiners actually look for.
Introduction
In this chapter we focus on the written thesis. Chapter 10 looks at the oral examination.
In previous chapters we have looked at the business of ‘getting the thesis written’ and how to work with your supervisor in achieving this major (probably the major) goal. We also looked at the best time and the best way of choosing examiners for the written thesis and the ...
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