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Im in the middle of writing up my dissertation proposal.
Ive covered;
*Introducation and research questions, hypothesis, purpose of study etc
*Data collection procedure
*Data interpretation methods and data analysis (statistical tests to use etc)
Im stuck on;
*Timetabling, not sure what i have to timetable? I have put approximate dates that i will collect data, and write off to places requesting information.
*Literature review- i have looked at a few journal abstracts that relate to my study and written about how my study will expand on current knowledge, why my study will be of importance etc. But i seemed to have missed something, not sure what else i am supposed to put in the literature review.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Ive covered;
*Introducation and research questions, hypothesis, purpose of study etc
*Data collection procedure
*Data interpretation methods and data analysis (statistical tests to use etc)
Im stuck on;
*Timetabling, not sure what i have to timetable? I have put approximate dates that i will collect data, and write off to places requesting information.
*Literature review- i have looked at a few journal abstracts that relate to my study and written about how my study will expand on current knowledge, why my study will be of importance etc. But i seemed to have missed something, not sure what else i am supposed to put in the literature review.
Any help greatly appreciated!
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Further, I added a paragraph in my methodology as so:
A timetable...well, this was mine:
And then I had a table with 3 columns: task - scheduled time slot - duration in weeks
thanks, that is helpful, however is this from your actual dissertation or just the dissertation proposal? Im not doing the actual dissertation just the proposal, it has a word limit of 2000 for the whole proposal so would i still need to do this massive full literature review??
I had the following parts with the following word counts (just as an idea, I've no clue as to whether my proposal was any good!)
Aim - 50 words
Research Questions - 53 words
Objectives (going through exactly what I intended to do, step by step - 6 steps in total, e.g. 1.Identify five areas with different soil types (A-F), in an areas which are sensitive to soil erosion.) - 124 words
Supporting Statement - 1,201 words
Methodology - 641 words
Schedule - 130 words
And then obviously my reference list at the end which doesn't count in the word count.
That brings my total to 2199, just within the 10% boundary! :yippe: :thumb:
i did 1,555 words excludung references.
In the end i just got so stuck on the literature review that i babbled on about a load of bollocks. In the assignment brief it said that the literature review has to be set out in the correct format, but i had no luck actually finding out what the correct format is!
1 piece of work down, 2 more and 3 exams to go :hyper: (sarcasm intended)
At Exeter we get marked down by 10% by being more than 10% over or above the work limit. Seems dumb to waste 10% by not writing enough words - I'd have padded it. Maybe your Uni doesn't do this?
it just said the limit is 2000 words
hmm
scared now!