Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012(Original post by RabbitCFH)
I got your dissertation with me. You're never getting it back and you'll fail.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012You can do it!(Original post by ebam_uk)
Okay 10 days til my deadline for my dissertation ( Project)!
Need to motivation of this thread!
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Anyone else find they got ill after handing in their dissertations? I had it a few days after my undergrad deadline and handing in my MA one on Friday having been under immense pressure to get it done on time, I was really ill yesterday.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I think with important deadlines adrenaline tends to keep you powering through them and then once you pass it, the adrenaline stops and you have the massive come down affect! I had this after exams last year sooooo badly!(Original post by CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK)
Anyone else find they got ill after handing in their dissertations? I had it a few days after my undergrad deadline and handing in my MA one on Friday having been under immense pressure to get it done on time, I was really ill yesterday.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I did, probably due to the 55 hours of no sleep in a row though for me.(Original post by CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK)
Anyone else find they got ill after handing in their dissertations? I had it a few days after my undergrad deadline and handing in my MA one on Friday having been under immense pressure to get it done on time, I was really ill yesterday.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012This.(Original post by angel_night)
I think with important deadlines adrenaline tends to keep you powering through them and then once you pass it, the adrenaline stops and you have the massive come down affect! I had this after exams last year sooooo badly! -
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Somewhere around 8,500 words into this year's dissertation, not started on any of the introduction/instrumentation section yet, so still got a lot to write
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I recently submitted my dissertation and decided to look through some sections to check for mistakes. Unfortunately I discovered some of them and am beginning to worry. On the main body, one of them is a typo where I wrote "3D will look better in 3D in 48fps" where it's supposed to be "3D will look better in 48fps" and I did not space two words separately, for example I wrote "citedin" instead of "cited in".
In the appendices, I spelt one word incorrectly.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I'd not worry about it, nothing you can do now. If it makes you feel better, mine was so close to the wire hand in wise (6 minutes), I didn't even proof read the final version.
I've not looked back over it, because like you've seen you'll just notice stuff and worry about it. -
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012Okay, but do these mistakes lose you a lot of marks or just a certain amount?(Original post by theronkinator)
I'd not worry about it, nothing you can do now. If it makes you feel better, mine was so close to the wire hand in wise (6 minutes), I didn't even proof read the final version.
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012I think they'd have to be massively anal, to penalise you for ever so slightly incorrect phrasage.(Original post by lalalalalalamember)
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012If it makes you feel better, I honestly had to go back to re-read the first sentence again to try and spot the difference.(Original post by lalalalalalamember)
I recently submitted my dissertation and decided to look through some sections to check for mistakes. Unfortunately I discovered some of them and am beginning to worry. On the main body, one of them is a typo where I wrote "3D will look better in 3D in 48fps" where it's supposed to be "3D will look better in 48fps" and I did not space two words separately, for example I wrote "citedin" instead of "cited in".
In the appendices, I spelt one word incorrectly.
Do these greatly impact my dissertation mark?
If they skim read it, I doubt they'll even notice that - besides, they have thousands of words to read. And if they do notice it, you shouldn't get massively penalised, especially if it is a one-off, unless they are really anal (which they probably won't be for that). That sentence alone shouldn't drop you an entire degree classification. Try not to worry about it.
I re-read mine the other day (stupid idea I know) and realised I spelt "breadth" as "breath", but it's towards the end of the dissertation so I'm hoping they'll be tired/bored/would have already decided my mark by then to even care. I also didn't italicise "et al." in my project (both the main report and the biblio), which apparently you should have, so I'm just hoping the one marker who goes out of her way to look out for these things, doesn't spot mine. But hey, nothing you can do now. -
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Re: Official Dissertation Thread - 2011-2012My report is going, just so much to do.
Anyone have any decent strategies to avoid errors and basic grammatical mistakes and structural problems..
Things I am sure they'll be looking out for to mark the report down respectively.
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If they skim read it, I doubt they'll even notice that - besides, they have thousands of words to read. And if they do notice it, you shouldn't get massively penalised, especially if it is a one-off, unless they are really anal (which they probably won't be for that). That sentence alone shouldn't drop you an entire degree classification. Try not to worry about it. 
