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Dissertation help please?

Hey! Basically I cannot get in touch with my dissertation supervisor and I don't know how many sources to use in my literature review. Could anyone help me out please? Should I be doing 5-10, 10-20?
I am doing at 10,000 word research project in Sociology. Thank you for taking the time to read this :smile: sorry if I have done it wrong, I'm a newbie!
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With the caveat that it's generally more about quality than quantity of references...

I can't speak for Sociology, or probably for your uni, but as a yardstick, for a 12k undergrad geography dissertation, somewhere in the region of 15-30 references would have been acceptable.

Without the more truthful but less useful answer of 'it depends', that's the best I can do XD

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