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3rd Year Diss Writing Ppt
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Class and Popular Culture Writing a Dissertation
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Class and Popular Culture
Writing a Dissertation
The most successful dissertations have ‘focus’ and ‘structure’
7000 words
7 x 1000 words
4 x 1750 words
[2 x 3500 words]
[3 x 2333 words]
1750
1750
1750
1750
3500
3500
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
But… you need and introduction and a conclusion
So, you lose some text from the body of the dissertation but gain ‘explanation’.
2500
2500
1500
1500
1500
1500
Intro - 500 Intro - 1000
Conc. - 500 Conc. - 1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
Conc. - 1000
1000
Intro. - 1000
Plan:
Make a plan: what are you going to say in each block of 1000 / 1500 / 2500 words; in 5, 4 or 2 sections?
Once you have made a plan
- stick to it
Plan:
The secret of a successful term paper is the ‘plan’; put the plan into a
structure.
Plan:
Tell your reader what you are going to tell them
Tell them
Tell them what you told them
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro - 1000
Conc. - 1000
Tell your reader what you are going to tell them
Tell them what you told them
Tell them
Plan:
...to lead your reader through your paper
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
What I am going to tell you is...
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
‘This is an important issue because…’
What I am going to tell you is...
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
‘This is an important issue because…’
Link - ‘I’ve said that, now I am going to say this, because…’
What I am going to tell you is...
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
‘This is an important issue because…’
Link - ‘I’ve said this, now I am going to say this, because…’
Link - ‘so far my argument has examined…? because…’. It will now go on to...
What I am going to tell you is...
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
‘This is an important issue because…’
Link - ‘I’ve said this, now I am going to say this, because…’
Link - ‘so far my argument has examined…? because…’. It will now go on to...
Link - ‘evidence, so far has suggested...’ and it is therefore now possible to argue ...
What I am going to tell you is...
1250
1250
1250
1250
Intro: 1000
Conc: 1000
‘This is an important issue because…’
Link - ‘I’ve said this, now I am going to say this, because…’
Link - ‘so far my argument has examined…? because…’. It will now go on to...
Link - ‘evidence, so far has suggested...’ and it is therefore now possible to argue ...
What I have told you is...
What I am going to tell you is...
Word-count:
References (author/date) count
bibliographies and captions do not
Word-count:
you can be 10% over or under before you are penalised
Word-count:
all written work is improved by editing. The secret is to write what
you want to write - bearing the word-count in mind - and then edit down.
Illustrations
Remember that your reader may not know what the ‘thing’ you are talking about looks like - give them a picture; it also saves words [...you don’t have
to describe it].
Time
Leave enough time so that you can review your term paper a couple of days after you have ‘finished’ it and
before you have to submit it.
The Deadline
Hand in on time
It will take you longer to hand in than you think…
