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Projects: Final Report /
Dissertation Requirements
1. Introduction
Your Initial Project Proposal gave you a chance to
put forward an idea for your project. Your Interim Research Proposal explained
how you are managing your project.
Your
Final Report – often called your Dissertation – should tell your readers what
you wanted to do, how you went about doing it, the results you achieved and
what you believe it all means.
It is
your opportunity to communicate your work successfully, and provide you with
not only a report for assessment, but also a document for your long term use as
you develop your career.
2. Developing your Project
When
developing your project, you should actively implement the project management
principles you learnt at level 2: this will help ensure your project has a good
chance of succeeding. Make sure you regularly review the information you
identified at the Interim Research Proposal stage for resources, risk, ethics,
contacts and overall planning, so that you stay on track with your project.
Ensure you update these forms where necessary.
The
actual process you should adopt is very much dependent on the nature of the
project, and it is here that input from your supervisor is vital. The following
notes provide some general information.
What you should have already done – if
not, do these activities now:
·
Be aware of module requirements,
submission dates etc. Plan for these.
·
Be certain that you
understand your project’s “problem”, i.e. the work to be done, and the reasons
why this work is required. Take guidance if this is not the case.
·
Your project may either
examine a particular topic in great depth, or combine different areas of
thinking into a new whole.
·
Formulate the aims of
the project. Make sure they are realistic, considering timescales and
resources.
·
Spend time researching
other approaches to the same and similar problems: this will become the
literature survey.
·
Undertake a few basic
investigations and/or designs to help get a feel for the project.
·
Analyse the results of
the initial investigations / designs. Be guided by what you find to decide your
way forward.
Word limit should not be less than 4000-5000 .