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I will of course be asking my dissertation supervisor this when i next have a meeting with him, but he's not available for a few days and i really want to be getting some work done
Basically, a dissertation is about 10,000 words right? Well i have no idea how i am going to get that many words!!
I have designed my own study and at the moment i am writing up the methodology, but at the very most it is only going to take up about 800 words.
I dont want to babble on and write a load of non-concice crap, but at the same time i am a but stuck as to what to write.
Anyone done a dissertation before and know?
And i have another query, i ordered 11 journal articles which i will be using, i know that i need to refer to their findings in order to back up or contrast my own findings but do i actually need to do some kind of literature review type thing in my assignment? Or does that kinda get mixed in with the introduction and discussion? Basically what am i required to use them for?
Aargh
Would be extremely grateful if someone could shed a bit of light on it!
Basically, a dissertation is about 10,000 words right? Well i have no idea how i am going to get that many words!!
I have designed my own study and at the moment i am writing up the methodology, but at the very most it is only going to take up about 800 words.
I dont want to babble on and write a load of non-concice crap, but at the same time i am a but stuck as to what to write.
Anyone done a dissertation before and know?
And i have another query, i ordered 11 journal articles which i will be using, i know that i need to refer to their findings in order to back up or contrast my own findings but do i actually need to do some kind of literature review type thing in my assignment? Or does that kinda get mixed in with the introduction and discussion? Basically what am i required to use them for?
Aargh
Would be extremely grateful if someone could shed a bit of light on it!
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P.s. good luck with it! :thumb:
i got some journals from the virtual campus, some from the journal room in the library, but some are not available and therefore need to be ordered, my university doesnt subscribe to every single journal to exist.
Ordering them is simple, i just had to fill in a form and then pay 50p per article
ps. thanks, i'll need it :nervous:
Ah I see. We have signs up in the computer clusters telling us we can only download/print something like two articles...I don't really understand how they can enforce that though. I once got about 20 for this one presentation, haven't been thrown out yet though
personally I would take a look at the journal articles you're using, your study is likely to be based around something similar. see how they do it, how much detail they go into etc. probs a good idea to brouse a load of journals just to see how different reports are set out, for example if you're doing a meta-analysis then go brouse a load of them...you'll get an idea pretty quickly of whats expected and how to bulk it out if needs be
also 50p for a journal article thats amazing! our uni charges like £10 for inter-library loan, and the department pays so you have to be really sure its the one you want! grr