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TY - CHAP
T1 - Completing an undergraduate dissertation
T2 - the student perspective
AU - Dillon, Mandy
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Between 2009 and 2010, ten final year students volunteered to take part in a small pilot study to monitor their dissertation experiences. This is a ‘warts and all’ account of that process. It includes the highs and the lows that students in their final year often face. The aim of the project was to highlight the students’ own expectations of the dissertation and follows their journey through the process. This project emphasizes the fact that there is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution to dissertation supervision and that the dissertation is still greeted with fear by many undergraduates, even those who are very academically minded. It also shows that although universities are attempting to address this anxiety by introducing research modules earlier in the degree program, the students often do not see the relevance of these at the time. The study concludes by giving some alternatives to the traditional dissertation thesis as suggested by the students themselves.
AB - Between 2009 and 2010, ten final year students volunteered to take part in a small pilot study to monitor their dissertation experiences. This is a ‘warts and all’ account of that process. It includes the highs and the lows that students in their final year often face. The aim of the project was to highlight the students’ own expectations of the dissertation and follows their journey through the process. This project emphasizes the fact that there is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution to dissertation supervision and that the dissertation is still greeted with fear by many undergraduates, even those who are very academically minded. It also shows that although universities are attempting to address this anxiety by introducing research modules earlier in the degree program, the students often do not see the relevance of these at the time. The study concludes by giving some alternatives to the traditional dissertation thesis as suggested by the students themselves.
KW - Dissertation
KW - research
KW - supervision
KW - time management
KW - alternative formats
KW - planning
KW - research methods
KW - internships
KW - project
KW - undergraduate
KW - degree
KW - Higher Education
U2 - 10.2174/9781608051762113010009
DO - 10.2174/9781608051762113010009
M3 - Chapter
SP - 50
EP - 77
BT - Supervising and writing a good undergraduate dissertation
A2 - Donnelly, Roisin
A2 - Dallat, John
A2 - Fitzmaurice, Marian
PB - Bentham Science
CY - Sharjah
ER -