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Master's Dissertation

L.A. Woman

Hi everyone -

Is anyone in here starting their Master's dissertation this fall?

Rachel

Reply 1

etherised

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I'll be starting a master's in a couple of weeks. I think the bulk of the dissertation is generally written in the summer in my course, rather than in the autumn. I'm still trying to work out exactly what I'm going to write on. It'll be something on afterlife/appropriation/adaptation of Shakespeare, but that's a pretty broad field!

And you?

Reply 2

peaseblossom

I'm starting an Masters in two weeks too! My dissertation will be due this time next year, but I'll probably start thinking about it soon. We have four essays in the mean time so the old long finger will be heavily laden...

What Masters are you doing?

I'm doing an MPhil in Popular Literature in Trinity College Dublin.

Reply 3

katebush

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Hiya, I'm starting a Masters in 2 weeks in Medieval English (650-1550) at Oxford. I have taught specialist options and palaeography in each of the first 2 terms, and a dissertation in the third term...woo, other postgrads!

Where is everyone studying? I know ziggurrated is going to Kings, and Peaceblossom is going to TCD- TCD is SO beautiful, and Kings sounds fabulous :-)

Reply 4

etherised

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Ah, cool, I have paleography, too. Quite exciting to do something completely new - apparently we look at editing manuscripts, that kind of thing.

katebush, what college are you going to?

Two of my friends just started PhDs at Trinity - they're loving it over there. Did you do your undergrad in Ireland?

Reply 5

silence

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katebush

Hiya, I'm starting a Masters in 2 weeks in Medieval English (650-1550) at Oxford. I have taught specialist options and palaeography in each of the first 2 terms, and a dissertation in the third term...woo, other postgrads!

Where is everyone studying? I know ziggurrated is going to Kings, and Peaceblossom is going to TCD- TCD is SO beautiful, and Kings sounds fabulous :-)

does medieval really extend that far? i suppose i can see why, but that would include people such as wyatt and some of the early 16th c playwrites like udal etc.

Reply 6

peaseblossom

Two of my friends just started PhDs at Trinity - they're loving it over there. Did you do your undergrad in Ireland?

Yep, just finished undergrad in English lit and Philosophy in TCD (liked it too much to leave :smile:

)

woo, other postgrads!

Yay! I'm not the oldest fish in the tank (in terms of years spent in uni, of course!)...

On another point, what do people think about doing a taught masters as opposed to research? I was torn initially, but kinda glad I'm doing this year before setting into an MLitt or PhD.

Reply 7

etherised

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peaseblossom

On another point, what do people think about doing a taught masters as opposed to research? I was torn initially, but kinda glad I'm doing this year before setting into an MLitt or PhD.

I'm glad of it. My undergrad dissertation had a max. word limit of 7,500 words, and the whole way of the rest of it was an essay a week - read, assimilate, churn out argument. Which is great in terms of giving you a sweeping background in methods and periods - but maybe not such a good preparation for lengthy (and lonely) individual research. So I like that I can do this first, to see how I do working that way. Though it's taught, it's much more researchy than undergrad, for me.

Reply 8

silence

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ah you're all so lucky doing your masters! i've only just started a standard ba, but i want to do one one day, then live in a library somewhere, but as in set up a tent in the 82x.xx isle (rather than sleep underneath the libraians' desk).

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