Jason Many many thanks for the information it's gratefully received and I checked and your perfectly correct it's a dissertation not a thesis although the book they recommend is called confusingly something like 'writing your masters thesis' .
I cut and pasted the relevant section shown below from Sussex Universities IR web page,to prove your correct, I guess some of the published material is American hence my confusion. Your advice and best wishes are honestly gratefully received as it's daunting prospect but also a challenge especially as I've only just obtained my History degree this month from the Open University. I have plenty of forensic qualifications from the Royal College of Military Science Shrivenham amongst others but I wanted to do something a little different hence my part time OU degree in History, once I'd finished that I thought I'd obtain a masters in International security this would give me a career path change when i wanted a change. Believe you me there is only so much child abuse, murder and terrorism you can deal with before your wishing for a change. So once again thanks for that and I will let you know how I get on.. Regards Ray Assessment International Security is assessed by a 5,000-word term paper. New Security Challenges is assessed by an unseen paper. Assessment of the spring-term options is by 5,000-word term papers. You will also write a 10,000-word dissertation. On 6 Sep 2013, at 17:38, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 Sep 2013, at 17:17, Ray Packham wrote: > > yes .. its masters level. > > then I will deploy the pedants' card and say it's a dissertation (thesis is > PhD). > > It's the opposite in the US, helpfully;) > > So possibly if they mention thesis, they are standardising to that. And > spelling sulphur as sulfur… > > The number of students I have taught at M level…here's the speech about your > dissertation. Try to write a one sentence version first even if you are > unsure of your conclusion. Then explain a bit more by turning that into a > paragraph. That paragraph should hopefully break down into something that can > become an outline. Then you start adding sections, and because it's an > outline it should become clear what you need as you expand it. Try to expand > it fairly evenly. When the outline becomes unwieldy, you are ready to start > actually filling in the bits to make it prose and because you already have a > plan, it's relatively simple. Turning an outline into RTF or similar is easy > with Multimarkdown Composer though I don't like actually typing in it. It > opens opml (outliner format) files and then lets you export as rtf, and the > outline headers become headings, and the notes become normal text. > > Get the plan right before you start writing and you will usually go up a > grade. > > And always write down references as you go along, you will not remember where > you read everything*. Thus Sente's quote function is handy. > > I rarely remember where *I wrote something, never mind someone else… > > Practice using Outliner on something you already understand, to see how it > works. You don't want to troubleshoot it while trying to think. Organising > your thoughts becomes so much easier when you work out where to put each bit. > > Finally: never ever try to write the final prose version and think at the > same time. Write in notes. Very very few people can think and type at the > same time. I touch type 60 wpm (i.e. without thinking) and even I can > definitely not think and type at the same time when I'm writing something > serious. > > Good luck;) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
