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s (and why I’ve previously suggested leaving writing a full draft of the introduction to near the end, as it’s the main section that can be cut down in length if needed). In the first instance, write what you think you need to write to present and discuss your findings as fully as possible.  The findings/discussion are not sections to skimp on- they need to be substantial.

2 Weeks from Submission-

Ideally, you should now have a full working draft of the dissertation.  You need to be doing two things at this stage.
i) Checking that the overall draft is within the word limit, and that it all flows together nicely.  If you’re a long way over in terms of word count, it’s in the introduction and conclusions where you can afford to be more succinct, and maybe lose a few words.  If you have a lot of data, but not all of it is that significant, some can go in an appendix BUT be sure that it’s not important to your overall discussion.  Chapters should flow from one to the next- the easiest way is to end each chapter with a brief sentence saying what the next one will do.

ii) Collating all the additional information you’ll need to include in appendices:
a) for Quantitative Content Analyses these are: a copy of the coding frame; a sample coding sheet, and if possible a sample item included in the analysis (obviously can’t be done with any broadcast material analysed)
b) for Qualitative Content Analysis this is: an example item used
c) for Quantitative Audience Analysis (i.e. surveys/questionnaires) these are: a copy of the survey/questionnaire; a copy of the information sheet, a copy of the consent form (if separate from the questionnaire)
d) for Qualitative Audience Analysis (i.e. focus groups) these are: a full transcript of ONE of the focus groups; a copy of the information sheet; a copy of the consent form
e) for Qualitative Interviews (whether for audiences or professionals) these are: a full transcript of ONE of the interviews; a copy of the contact letter/information sheet; a copy of the consent form

Appendices appear AFTER the bibliography in a dissertation, and should be labelled differently to the main body (so if you’ve numbered your chapters, you can use Appendix A, B, C etc.; if not, you can use numbers for the Appendices).  Each piece of information should be included in a separate appendix (e.g. coding frame in one, coding sheet in another etc.).

Appendices are important parts of a student dissertation, so DON’T leave them out.

This is the last time period in which a tutor can reasonably give any detailed feedback and advice, so if you still want feedback or detailed advice by this stage, get it to your tutor within this week.

1 Week from Submission-

The most important thing in the last week is to ensure you have enough time to get 2 copies of your dissertation bound, and submitted on time.  Particularly if you’re not in Leicester, you should not leave this to the deadline day (or even the day before).  If it’s late without extenuating circumstances, it gets penalised, so get it in on time!

Before that, in the last week, you should be doing the final checks:

- It MUST have an Abstract (250 words or less that summarise the whole dissertation- what it’s about, what was done, what was found- look at journal articles for ideas on how to do this)
- It MUST have a Contents Page
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