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Dissertation Guidelines for Undergraduate Study Writing a Dissertation: What is it? The Dissertation module is for final year Honours students. It is a core requirement for Part- time and 2+2 Social Studies degree students. A dissertation offers the opportunity to undertake independent research on a topic of your choice within the field of adult and lifelong learning. It enables you to explore a topic in more depth than an assignment essay. As it is your piece of work you have to: have an idea for an area of research identify your research questions decide how to undertake the research analyse and write up the data critically A dissertation is 10,000 words in length, including references but not appendices. Writing a dissertation is a good preparation for post-graduate work. A dissertation should be: A piece of small-scale research which can be completed, start to finish, in the amount of time you would spend in and out of class for a regular 30-credit module Enjoyable to carry out Organised into chapters and with a contents page, references and bibliography Often, but not always, based on your own personal experience of learning as an adult or at work or in a voluntary activity Often, but not always, linking theory with practice There should be some empirical research in your dissertation. This may be modest in scale but first hand research will lift the overall quality of your dissertation and enable you to conclude, perhaps in a very qualified way, that your findings support, contradict, or modify the literature on the problem you have investigated. If there is no empirical research planned for your dissertation, talk to your supervisor about it! Module Objectives On completion of your dissertation you should be able to: demonstrate the abil