Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I study French, and am hoping to base my dissertation on how French opinion towards Jews changed during WWII, or something similar. It has to be around 8,000 words. Not looking forward to it already!
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Sounds quite interesting(Original post by x_emmzy_x)
I study French, and am hoping to base my dissertation on how French opinion towards Jews changed during WWII, or something similar. It has to be around 8,000 words. Not looking forward to it already!
Are you writing yours in French or English? Or do you not get a choice? 
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I did my A Level research project on language change and up until the last few months of my second year, had planned on basing my dissertation on it(Original post by amizzle91)
Yeah mostly, I do like language, especially language change though. I find it so interesting how words become obsolete and others change their meanings.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Hey, I'm a geographer and I think I'm going to look into how educational attainment at university is gendered and whether the "place" of university reinforces good, bad and gendered practices in terms of achieving grades. Whack some nice little stats, some interviews and social theory and hey presto, hopefully a dissertation...
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Hi Everyone,
Im starting researching for my disertation and know what I will be writing about just finding it hard to put together a title??
I am going to look at the use of language particualarly in the work of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and compare and contrast it to the work of artists from an exhibition I saw at Tate Liverpool curated by Carol Ann Duffy called the Sculpture of Langague.
Also, any other artist suggestions who have been in fluenced by language particularly sculptors??
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I'm a History-Politics student and I'm doing my dissertation on the subject of American loyalists (loyal to the crown) in New York City during the American Revolution. Basically emphasising how contrary to American historiography on the subject the Revolution was a civil war. Which essentially means spending half of the next year reading old colonial newspapers and flicking through thousands of pages of reports and military records in the National Archives.
It's 15,000 words though, which seems so much more than what everyone else is doing. It's also worth 50% of my final year, which in turn is worth over 50% of my entire grade. So basically about 25% of my degree classification will be based upon this
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012It's all pretty exciting! I like to read about what other people are doing(Original post by ajp100688)
I'm a History-Politics student and I'm doing my dissertation on the subject of American loyalists (loyal to the crown) in New York City during the American Revolution. Basically emphasising how contrary to American historiography on the subject the Revolution was a civil war. Which essentially means spending half of the next year reading old colonial newspapers and flicking through thousands of pages of reports and military records in the National Archives.
It's 15,000 words though, which seems so much more than what everyone else is doing. It's also worth 50% of my final year, which in turn is worth over 50% of my entire grade. So basically about 25% of my degree classification will be based upon this
Mine is 1/3 of my final year which is 2/3 of my overall degree (I cannot for the life of me figure out what percentage that is overall)
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012History student here, my dissertation's going to be on the affects of Agent Orange and also how far America have ever assumed responsibility for the health of both their own citizens and the Vietnamese. Erring on the political side of things, but my tutor loves it, and as a topic it falls very much in line with one of the modules already taught under the history school so they can't complain really.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Thanks! It is in English, thankfully :P I'm worried about it already, urgh! I've done a bit of reading but find it quite hard to get motivated...(Original post by aeterno)
Sounds quite interesting Are you writing yours in French or English? Or do you not get a choice?
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012That's good(Original post by x_emmzy_x)
Thanks! It is in English, thankfully :P I'm worried about it already, urgh! I've done a bit of reading but find it quite hard to get motivated... I'd never be able to do all that in French...it's just added pressure as well 
Hmm, I get that too sometimes. I bribe myself with chocolate to get me working 
...although the chocolate seems to get more attention than reading but still
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012When I was doing my undergrad dissertation, I'd write to one of my tutors every few days telling her how many words I'd done (bear in mind I was rather crazy at this point and needed quite a lot of support). The need to tell her a suitable greater number than the last time was quite a good motivator.
I know one of my friends had a Facebook count-up in her status, updating every few days the amount of words she'd written. I think I might do that this time around
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I might do this with my supervisor(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
When I was doing my undergrad dissertation, I'd write to one of my tutors every few days telling her how many words I'd done (bear in mind I was rather crazy at this point and needed quite a lot of support). The need to tell her a suitable greater number than the last time was quite a good motivator.
I know one of my friends had a Facebook count-up in her status, updating every few days the amount of words she'd written. I think I might do that this time around
Although I'll probably do this after adding just one more word...he'll get 10,000+ emails So if I mysteriously disappear at some point, he's probably killed me 
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I hope there are some pretty coloured/sparkly gel pens in there(Original post by aeterno)
I've gone and bought some stationary to make my diss research seem far more fun
I'm now skint
At least you've bought something productive. I went to Primark today, for example
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I got a pack of different coloured pens from Tesco(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
I hope there are some pretty coloured/sparkly gel pens in there
At least you've bought something productive. I went to Primark today, for example
And post-it notes and highlighters...and several notepads just because there was a special offer
I still bought some clothes too...y'know, so I can be wearing something nice and warm when I'm writing my diss. Yes.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Highlighters(Original post by aeterno)
I got a pack of different coloured pens from Tesco And post-it notes and highlighters...and several notepads just because there was a special offer
I still bought some clothes too...y'know, so I can be wearing something nice and warm when I'm writing my diss. Yes.
Well clearly I had to go to Primark coz I need special new clothes in order to be warm and snug enough to concentrate in lectures. Yeah 
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012(Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd)
Highlighters
Well clearly I had to go to Primark coz I need special new clothes in order to be warm and snug enough to concentrate in lectures. Yeah
I don't know why I bought them considering I already have loads...it's just every time I see them, I think 'MUST HAVE NOW!'
Yes. We're very studious and what better way to prove it than buying clothes.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Ah, the back to university stationary shopping spree. I have yet to go on mine, but purchasing stationary always makes me very happy, although I swear I don't end up using half of what I buy o_O.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Saaaame!(Original post by SilGathien)
Ah, the back to university stationary shopping spree. I have yet to go on mine, but purchasing stationary always makes me very happy, although I swear I don't end up using half of what I buy o_O. Although I really ought to spend more time researching than buying all sorts of stuff which will stay at the bottom of my bag/under the bed/stuck in a tree...
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Research cannot be undertaken without multicoloured pens. Fact(Original post by aeterno)
Saaaame! Although I really ought to spend more time researching than buying all sorts of stuff which will stay at the bottom of my bag/under the bed/stuck in a tree...
