Dissertation motivation!

dancingqueen_tr

ames123 wrote: »

Well it's all in now yay! It's really bad but at least it's in! You got your's done?

not yet:( allnighter tonight i think, and gonna get it bound at 8 am on monday to give it in. fingers crossed! well done about finishing it!

elisebutt65

Whaeyyy not too shabby - Got all caught up now - 2 assignments finished - a 1500 and a 5000 worder and all my observation paperwork for 3 lessons as well - rationales, evaluation of feedback and self evaluation all done - Yippeeee!!!

And it's only 1.30 at night LOL

I am so not going to get behind like this again - I've only got 2 more observations and 2 assignments to go and I'm done - FREE!!!!!




Until September anyway:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

joho

Hi all! Only just found this thread (am a comper generally - rarely venture to parts other than The Arms!) and am really pleased to see there are fools like me who have left everything to the last minute!

I have two weeks (in theory) to get my dissertation done but also have two lab write-ups, a witness statement and two presentations in that time! So its more like 5 days!

My supervisor is marking my dissertation (how useful is that!) so I can't send her anything for a full readover. So if anyone thinks they can bear to read about phthalate leaching from plastic bottles into water, then I would be very grateful!

However, I have come to the experimental part and am not really sure how to write it and how to word it? Should it be like giant lab write-up ie aims and introduction, method and materials, results, discussion, conclusions and recommendations? If anyone can advise me on this it would also be helpful!

Good luck to all those that are nearly there!

jay11_2

I'm not in your field so can't give specific advice, but can you access past dissertations at your uni library, or via your module leader (ours holds all the 'A's from last year, to loan to this years students.

Failing that, can you ask other students, past or present, another lecturer, or look in your module guide or handbook.

Prob not much help, but didn't want to read and run.

joho

Thanks Jay11. I have emailed my supervisor, but obviously she won't get it till tomorrow, so maybe a quick trip to the library is the answer!

retepetsir

Finished my engineering dissertation last week and handed it in a day early. Very happy and relieved now!

sali_mali

Hey joho, I do a science degree and my dissertation had to be in the giant lab write-up style even though it was a dry project. I don't know if all unis are the same though

kdf987

My research project was 7000-10000 words and it was a bit like a giant lab report. mine was structured
title page
contents
abbreviations
acknowledgements
abstract (200 words max)
introduction (long - covering all aspects of the topic in suitable sections, ie disease, diagnosis, drug treatments etc, and a couple of pages at the end on why you thought your experiment would be useful to do and why you did it the way you did)
materials and methods (in a wordy form and put your full list of materials, like the chemicals and where they were sourced, in an appendix at the end)
results (describe all findings in words in a section first and then put all the graphs after)
discussion (dont forget to compare your results to the findings of others in this section, and say recommendations for future studies at the end)
appendices
references

hope that helps. i was so glad to get mine handed in!

sali_mali

What she said ^

jay11_2

Hi, anyone got any tips on writing the discussion, I was doing OK but have hit a wall, and need some inspiration. I've outlined a structure, but am stuck now, my research has thrown up a couple of (expected) wildcards, and I need to write about why they're outside the remit of my study so will not be gone into in depth...

But they're the most prominent result...only not the one I'm researching...cos there's lots written about those aspects of the research...Help!!!

I hate walls, found out this morning that my supervisors away till thursday too, just when i need help...