Dissertations - Uni

dobbsy · 2 Mar 2006 at 20:00

How late has everyone left it to produce their dissertation?

I have approx 4 weeks left to write 10,000 words..

The questions is...how late did you leave yours before you realised you had to start.... for all you previous students?

dobbsy · 3 Mar 2006 at 00:45

MarkyMark said:
Hmmmm, well mine had to be handed in in May of 2004 and by Easter of 2004 i'd done a whopping 1000 words Had around a 12000 word limit. Needless to say I worked my ass off over the Easter Holidays Ended up being around 39,000 inc. research. About 15,000 of my own words, and 232 pages.

Yeh thanks for those pictures mate, makes me feel loads better, haha. My dissertation is on 'nutrient intake and mood' as of yet i need to find 18 subjects to carry out a diet and physical acitivity diary, then complete a POMS (profile of mood state) questionairre for 3 weeks So its definately not going to happen, fake results it is then!

Long shot...but does anyone know of any journal articles on the above topic? (nutrient intake and mood) could also have articles on diabetes and glycaemic index, as i will have both a high and a low g.i group after analysing diet figures.

dobbsy · 3 Mar 2006 at 01:06

MarkyMark said:
lol sorry dude

As for journal articles......does your uni have an electronic library at all that you can get stuff from? I'm pretty sure taht ours used to list whitepapers etc. so at least we had some sort of idea of what we could actually get hold of.

Have you looked in food/nutrient books etc. Even psychology books. Not necessarily for the information contained in that book but I often found that if you follow an authors reference's you can find much more information. Try to follow the trail of info between books and you can pick up a lot of information along the way in my experience Nothing concrete for ya but good luck all the same.

Great advice mate, that is what i planned to do. I'm going to take a look at our online electronic library, but the problem is...there is no full text articles, and its usually a) either a complete ball ache tracking them down or b) expensive articles.

I have literally 19 PDF's on my Laptop at the min with journal articles around the topic, so i'm on the right track!

Cheers PeterNem also, Just reminded me to check athens!

dobbsy · 2 Apr 2006 at 04:48

update....9845 words completed. Will be running the rule over it tomorrow, adding a few more words to the word count and generally checking it over before getting it bound on monday.

dobbsy · 21 Apr 2006 at 09:18

MATTeL said:
10,000 words in 4 weeks is nothing, unless you have done no research or other work. If that is the case then you are screwed... you had at least one year to do this, no sympathy.

I have written longer reports for work.

Great post...

Fool, how do you know i've had no family bereavements/problems with supervisors in this time? Think before you post...

If you actually bothered to read the thread you'd have noticed i finished it with plenty of time to spare...