Leicester Lass Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 Really enjoyed my dissertation. It's a pain in the arse for most of the time, but it's such a good feeling when it's printed off and handed in. Nice to have a real professional piece of work as something to show for your time at uni.
vandamman Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 How long does it usually take to get dissertations book binded?
Basingstoke Fox Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 What topics are all you guys doing? I've not had to do one thankfully as I didn't go to Uni but my other half has been doing hers and just handed it in, so I've seen the amount of work that goes into it.
StanSP Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 How long does it usually take to get dissertations book binded? There should be a printing office at your uni that does it. Takes less than 5 mins, if that. My uni charged me for it!
Guest Bilo Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 How long does it usually take to get dissertations book binded? Depends where you get it done. The uni is OK, but the waiting time can be absolutely horrendous as dissertation deadlines begin to loom. This is the firm I used, they did a smashing job in not a lot of time. I say firm, he's more or less a one man band. As I say though, brilliant job. http://www.lincolnbinding.com/
Tom17LCFC Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 Really don't know whether or not to do a dissertation. Got to decide soon. I reckon I'd sort of enjoy it if it was on a topic I enjoyed and could really get into, but if I don't I'm screwed; don't fancy spending the whole year doing something I despise.
Guest Bilo Posted 20 March 2013 Posted 20 March 2013 Vital that you choose the right subject. Think carefully, because I can think it would be a living hell if you chose a subject you weren't interested in.
Guest ttfn Posted 21 March 2013 Posted 21 March 2013 Mine was thrilling. Something like, 'How was Poland able to pursue a distinct form of communism in the two decades following World War Two while avoiding the fate of Hungary' or some such thing. Here's the reasons. 1. The popularity and personality of Marshall Gomulka 2. Polish economic 'differences' from the Soviet economy were successful and useful. 3. Poland did not threaten to break from the Warsaw Pact. That's 28 words. What was the point of the other 11972 then? I actually think I'd find that quite interesting!
vandamman Posted 21 March 2013 Posted 21 March 2013 There should be a printing office at your uni that does it. Takes less than 5 mins, if that. My uni charged me for it! There is but they don't do gold letters on the front cover.. Which apparently we have to use. Lecturer keeps on saying it sometimes takes weeks i.e waiting times, I don't believe him.
Corky Posted 21 March 2013 Posted 21 March 2013 I didn't realise there was a choice, I believed it was mandatory, with it being so many credits.
Guest Bilo Posted 21 March 2013 Posted 21 March 2013 I didn't realise there was a choice, I believed it was mandatory, with it being so many credits. Was for me. It was 30 out of 120 credits in my final year.
ealingfox Posted 21 March 2013 Posted 21 March 2013 I didn't have a choice either, although I know there are plenty of courses where you can get out of doing it, or don't have to do one. On the binding thing, I took mine to Ryman's on deadline day and it took about 5 minutes, but that was just for the plastic spine and covers. Don't know about getting it glued with a hard back or anything. I did mine on social and moral legislation in the early Principate. More interesting than it sounds I promise.
Len Finsbury Posted 22 March 2013 Posted 22 March 2013 I couldn't live without Endnote. Having to manually organise 100+ references would be far too time consuming. Also helps if you come to publish your dissertation, as different publications require referencing in different ways. If you've used Harvard and they want Oxford, it'd take you an age to go through and change every citation. Definitely worth the cost when i bought it.
StanSP Posted 22 March 2013 Posted 22 March 2013 I couldn't live without Endnote. Having to manually organise 100+ references would be far too time consuming. Also helps if you come to publish your dissertation, as different publications require referencing in different ways. If you've used Harvard and they want Oxford, it'd take you an age to go through and change every citation. Definitely worth the cost when i bought it. Surely you'd check beforehand .
leicsmac Posted 22 March 2013 Posted 22 March 2013 Going to be writing a thesis for my MSc. Got to select my own idea so I'm looking forward to writing about it. It's going to be a feasibility study for putting a lander on Europa to look for biosignatures. Trying to sketch out an entire mission.
Guest Bilo Posted 23 March 2013 Posted 23 March 2013 Sending off for postgraduate prospectuses as I speak. Masochism ahoy!
The Doctor Posted 23 March 2013 Posted 23 March 2013 Aah, 2 more years before the panic of dissertations, and even then it'll be to do with a research project. Can't say I'm looking forward to it tbh, absolute bundle of nerves about 2nd year exams still.
Len Finsbury Posted 30 March 2013 Posted 30 March 2013 Surely you'd check beforehand . Not necessarily. You write your dissertation in line with the requirements of the university. Being fortunate to have it published is a bonus.
BoneDog Posted 31 March 2013 Posted 31 March 2013 I don't need a disertation undergraduate phd because I've got the Khan Academy and am now more qualified than most NASA scientists. https://www.khanacademy.org/
SemperEadem Posted 25 April 2013 Posted 25 April 2013 Finally finished the ****er all 64 pages of it. Getting three copies of it bound tomorrow.
The Doctor Posted 5 February 2014 Posted 5 February 2014 Aah, 2 more years before the panic of dissertations, and even then it'll be to do with a research project. Can't say I'm looking forward to it tbh, absolute bundle of nerves about 2nd year exams still. Well **** - as it turned out there was a dissertation stuck in on second semester of third year. My tutor is useless and ignores all attempts to contact them, but still, got my title sorted - 6,000 words on "Origins of Life from the Abiotic Synthesis of RNA"
Len Finsbury Posted 5 February 2014 Posted 5 February 2014 Good luck, Doctor. My final year dissertation has recently been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. Fingers crossed.
Guest Col city fan Posted 6 February 2014 Posted 6 February 2014 Takes me back. My dissertation for my Masters was 20,000 words and the tough bit was keeping to the word limit! Once you get going, you find the words just go and go. Remember to use your appendices well. When I did mine there was lots of stuff you could appendix which wasn't a part of the word limit. Good luck everyone.
DB11 Posted 24 March 2015 Posted 24 March 2015 Just finished mine. 32 pages handed in of the initial submission before christmas and 41 pages of the final report http://www.refme.com was such a life saver when it came to referencing No thank you to that EndNote for £66 that has been mentioned I hope it's good, I've still not met with my supervisor He doesn't respond to emails and, in fact, he doesn't even work at the Uni he works in Nottingham!
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