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Workshop Four
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Dissertation Workshop Four
Engaging and Informative!
The Introduction
- The introduction should start with a paragraph that grabs attention and outlines the topic
- Define key terms
- outline the sources/methodology - workshop 2
- discuss the historiography - where does your project sit? What does it add?
Key things to remember
Finishing the Dissertation
- When editing put distance between yourself and the project
- Analyse the work like a source
- Why is this here? is it effective?
- what is the purpose of the piece?
- 'Hear' what you have written - does it make sense?
- Spellcheck is not a substitute for proofreading
Illustrations and Images
- Embed them in the text
- Provide a list of illustrations
- caption box to label them
- Submit as a pdf and word doc.
- Engage with the images - they shouldn't just be pretty
Illustrations
Start your list!
Here is an example list
Use this to start putting together your list of illustrations
- Must include:
- Your name,
- name of institution,
- degree programme title and year,
- course title and course code,
- title of the dissertation,
- a statement that the dissertation is the student’s own work,
- date of submission and signature
- Take a moment and draft this
Title page
- Dissertation should begin on separate page
- Each new chapter on separate page
- The footnotes should start over in each chapter
Page Breaks
- Title page
- Contents page
- List of abbreviations
- Not always required
- List of illustrations, graphs
- Introduction
- Chapters
- Sub-divided, if necessary
- Appendices
- Bibliography
Checklist
- Primary source material (unpublished)
- Primary source material (published)
- Film and other visual evidence should be in a separate category between unpublished and published.
- Secondary sources (works which appear after the period): books and articles consulted (these may appear together or separated).
Bibliography
- You must have submitted a Students Ethics Checklist form to me, including the Ethics UH Protocol Number cHUM/CL/UH/05061
- You must have asked each of your interviewees to complete a consent form to indicate that they agree to their interviews being used as part of your research
- The Checklist must be included in your dissertation as an appendix.
- Consent forms will need to be placed in a secure file arranged with the module leader
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