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论文题目：老师推荐
论文语种：英文
您的研究方向：国际关系
是否有数据处理要求：否
您的国家：英国
您的学校背景：university of bristol
要求字数：12000
论文用途：硕士毕业论文 Master Degree
是否需要盲审（博士或硕士生有这个需要）：
补充要求和说明：
附件是要求
1 Chinese foreign policy change since 1979
就是改革开放后 中国对外政策的变化研究 这个题目老师应该比较感兴趣 而且比较好写 现在不正是改革开放30周年么 这方面的资料应该是最好找的
The Dissertation
This project provides you with the opportunity to write at considerable length and in some detail on a topic essentially of your own choice. It can sometimes involve original research, but this is not essential. A dissertation must fall into an area considered relevant and appropriate to the particular MSc programme, and the relevant Course Director will decide in cases of uncertainty. If there is any concern over this, the supervisor will alert the relevant Course Director.
To undertake it you will need a dissertation adviser. Once you have completed the taught elements of the programme you can formally begin the dissertation process. You do not have to be in Bristol to secure supervision or to write the dissertation.
The process of securing supervision is as follows
1. The list of supervisors is circulated after 12 noon on Friday 15 May 2009
2. You contact by email/phone/in person whichever member of staff from the list you might like to supervise your dissertation.
3. If that member of staff agrees to supervise, that's it. There is no need for central approval of this.
4. If the member of staff does not agree to supervise, you need to contact another member of staff on the list. They may decline because they have reached their full quota of supervision. Alternatively, they may not feel suited to supervise that topic: if so you may consider changing or amending that topic or asking someone else.
5. Once a member of staff agrees to supervise, you agree a mutually satisfactory pattern of supervision.
Staff are entitled to be away for substantial periods for both research and vacation purposes. Supervision may be any mix of face to face, email, post or phone, as agreed mutually. The basic rules for the structured supervision follow.
Supervisors may choose to exercise their discretion and provide more support and feedback than indicated above.
University regulations state that you are not allowed to begin your dissertation formally until after you have submitted and passed all of your essays. Hence, in allowing you to begin the dissertation process informally as soon as you have submitted all your essays, the Department is permitting you to begin the process very early. Staff will not make a commitment, even an informal one, to supervise your dissertation until after 15 May. Staff are entitled to decline to discuss dissertations until after that date: they have other duties, including those related to teaching, that they need to prioritise.#p#分页标题#e#
After 15 May, you can contact a potential supervisor if you have essay resubmissions, but those with extensions for first submissions must submit the essays before contacting a potential supervisor. You can have only one supervisor, and the supervisor can only be from the approved list: there are no exceptions to this.
It is well worth emphasising that staff are perfectly capable of, and happy to, supervise dissertations significantly outside their areas of research expertise. Staff have much broader knowledge and experience than simply their research area, and most of dissertation supervision is about how, in generic terms, to write a dissertation rather than the specific substantive content. So if particular individuals are not available, this does not mean that any areas of dissertation work are closed off to you. Members of staff generallyhttp://www.ukassignment.org/daixieAssignment/daixieyingguoassignment/ have wide-ranging interests, many of which you will not be aware, so do suggest whatever you are interested in. Supervision by a member of staff who has not taught you or has not taught on your MSc is fine also.
If a particular member of staff is too heavily committed, you will need to approach someone else. Obviously, this is an argument for finding an adviser soon after 15 May. The longer you leave it, the less choice you will have of supervisor. You will then have to decide whether or not you want to modify or change the topic of your dissertation should you wish to do so, although you are not required to modify or change it for the reasons given above.
Structured Supervision
Students should provide their dissertation supervisor with a proposal document up to 500 words long at the beginning of the dissertation process (after 15 May 2009). Students are entitled to a maximum of 2 hours of individual staff time to discuss the dissertation proposal in person or by email, post or phone during the summer term weeks 25-29 (ends 19 June 2009). After week 29, occasional, brief queries are permitted.
Up to 10 July 2009, staff will read and comment on a synopsis or dissertation introduction not more than 3000 words long, excluding footnotes and bibliography. No proposals or synopses will be read if submitted after 10 July.
Extensions on the above deadlines (ie not the deadline for the submission of the completed dissertation) can be granted by your supervisor. For those students with essay deadline extensions, the above dissertation deadlines are extended automatically for a period equal to that of the extension. However, the deadline for submitting the completed dissertation will remain the same.
Extensions for the submission of completed dissertation can be granted ONLY by your Course Director or the Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes, and the usual rules on grounds for extensions apply.
Proposal and Synopsis
Detailed below is a suggestion that may be of assistance to you when writing your 500 word proposal and subsequent synopsis for review by your supervisor. You may also agree a particular approach with your superviser. #p#分页标题#e#
Note that an MSc dissertation does not have to be original/involve original research, not even to get a Distinction, but originality (eg use of primary sources such as UN documents) is very welcome and certainly boosts marks.
500 word proposal could be organised as follows:
Title: eg 'Explaining Change in Foreign Policy: Thai-Myanmese Relations Since 2000'.
Question: eg 'Why have Thai-Myanmese relations moved from mainly conflict to mainly cooperation since 2000?'
The question you ask should have multiple, plausible, significant answers eg have relations improved for reasons of national interest, the interests of particular parts of the relevant governments or broader changes in world politics such as economic globalization?
Background
ie overview of the facts, and what is interesting about the question.
Literature review
ie overview of what are the various positions on the question in the academic literature, NGO and government reports, etc.
Sources and Bibliography
You should indicate what sources you will use, as this is important in indicating whether or not what you want to do can be done. The more specificity the better, for example, rather than simply ‘newspapers', do a Google search and indicate how many items there are and how useful they seem to be, or specify which newspapers will be used and how they will be accessed. Or which documents you will use, whether they are online and so on. Or who specifically you would interview. Or which academic studies you would use.
Method
This is the bit that most people are most unsure about. What it basically means is 'How are you going to answer your question?' Are you going to compare a state's words with its actions? Are you going to compare different theories to see which provides the best explanation of the facts you are gathering? Are you going to try to integrate more than one theory.
Eg. One could divide the factors behind the evolution of Thai-Myanmese relations into political, economic and social factors, and, using a standard foreign policy analysis text such as Roy Macridis (ed) 'Foreign Policy in World Politics', look at the two states as unitary rational actors or look at them in terms of bureaucratic politics (the actions of parts of those states such as the government, corporations and the armed forces). You would also need to work out how you were going to measure abstract things (such as political factors or economic factors or social factors) in concrete ways (such as border disputes or levels of trade or focus on human rights). You need to describe what the issue is and then you need to explain it.
Chapter structure
The chapters of a dissertation are just like the sections of an essay, but longer. You could have
Ch 1: Introduction. Basically the abstract, expanded into the synopsis
Ch. 2: Political factors
Ch. 3. Economic factors
Ch. 4. Social factors
Conclusion. The conclusion would discuss the relationships between the various factors (eg how separate are they, which is more important) eg. One could conclude that the economic interests of the Thai and Mynamese states were the driving force behind the improvement in their relations, and that the funds generated enable those governments to address the bureaucratic interests of their armed forces in continuing conflict by buying them off with new weapons and cooperation programmes).#p#分页标题#e#
3,000 word synopsis
This could simply (but does not have to) be an expanded version of the abstract, and you could use this as your dissertation's introduction.
University Research Ethics - Policy and Procedure
The University has developed a Policy and Procedure, approved by Council, to govern the ethics of research across the University, and to comply with the legitimate requirements of outside research funders and collaborators. The Procedure applies to everyone carrying out research under the auspices of the University. The key points are outlined below.
The University is concerned with protecting the rights, dignity, health, safety and privacy of research subjects, the welfare of animals and the integrity of the environment. It is also concerned with protecting the health, safety, rights and academic freedom of researchers and the reputation of the University as a centre for high-quality research.
Virtually all research will have ethical implications but there are some instances when these will be particularly important, for example:
• where the research involves human subjects (particularly children and vulnerable adults)
• where the research uses human data or human material
• where there are serious health and safety implications
• where animal experiments are involved
• where there is a risk of damage to the environment
• where the impact of the research may be emotionally damaging
• where the research is politically or socially sensitive
• where the source of funding for the research has the potential to compromise the University's position as a publicly funded charitable body
For full details of the policy and related documents please If you are in any doubt about whether or not your work for the dissertation might have ethical implications, you should check with your dissertation supervisor who may in turn consult the Department's Ethics Committee. It may be the case that the relevant aspect of your dissertation work has to be approved by the Ethics Committee. This is likely to be the case, for example, with interviews and surveys, especially those that involve any degree of confidentiality.
Dissertation Structure
Every dissertation must set a particular question or enquiry within an identified field of academic literature. Even if the question involved is apparently quite practical, the student must make references to literature in a relevant academic field. Provisional discussions of the literature, and selection of reading appropriate to the thesis, falls within the responsibility of the supervisor. The dissertation should make its analytical premises clear at the outset, and the argument, case study, and/or other empirical material should follow from these premises. The conclusion should summarise the answer to the question posed by the dissertation topic; relate the elements of the various chapters; and, where appropriate, make some general observations relevant to related topics or case studies not covered by the dissertation. A dissertation may be wholly theoretical, wholly empirical or anything in between. Obviously the word limit will constrain this, but a good dissertation moves from a well defined premise, to an identified and contained academic literature, to a tight conclusion, but one with obvious relevance to a wider series of subjects or fields of investigation. Your dissertation topic can be *anything* within the broad remit of your MSc, even if it does not correspond to any of the particular units within your MSc. It just has to be something that can be done in the time and with the resources available.#p#分页标题#e#
• The dissertation may not contain, in whole or in part, material which counted towards credit for this or any other degree. It must be a wholly new piece of work.
• Dissertations must be at least 10,000 words long and no longer than 15,000 words long. The Department treats words limits as precise limits. Penalties will be applied to over-length dissertations. Five marks will be deducted for every 100 words or part thereof over the word limit. For example, a dissertation of 15,001 words will be penalised five marks. Marks cost for being overlength can be restored via resubmission at the correct length only up to a maximum mark of 60.
• Dissertations are not penalised for being under-length but it will obviously be harder to achieve the pass mark with an under-length dissertation.
• The word limits exclude the title page, declarations, abstract, acknowledgments, list of contents and abbreviations, footnotes/endnotes and bibliography, maps, tables, diagrams and appendices. Appendices are only for reproducing documents, not for additional text written by you. Footnotes and endnotes should contain minimal amounts of text. This means the citation and, at most, one line of additional explanation per page only. Essays containing more that this will be counted as overlength and will be returned to the student to be resubmitted to the appropriate length. A guide to referencing and citation is included later in this handbook.
• The word limits include all text, numbers, Harvard referencing in the body of the text and direct quotes.
• All dissertations must be typed or word-processed. The University provides a number of 24-hour computer laboratories where word-processing and printing are available; see Part 9 - Support Facilities.
• If a dissertation receives a mark of 50 or above, the credit points from it count towards the award of a Diploma or Certificate.
If you need an item on Inter-Library Loan, please ask Mary Weir – http://www.ukassignment.org/ The Department only has a small allocation each year for both staff and students. If you are unable to obtain an IIL voucher and you wish access to another university library please see the Library Helpdesk in the first instance. The Department can provide a letter supporting your request if required.
Dissertation: Submission And Deadlines
All final year MSc students must submit ONE bound copy of their dissertation and ONE electronic copy to the Departmental Graduate Studies Administrator no later than 12 Noon on 11th September 2009. Electronic versions must be submitted to BlackBoard. Harriet will circulate detailed information on how to submit your work before this date. The bound copy dissertations can be posted in to Harriet or handed in in person. The postmark must show 11th September 2009. Any high street photocopy shop can bind your dissertation for you.#p#分页标题#e#
All essays submitted to this site will be recorded with a time of submission and will be subject to word length verification and review by TurnItInUK – the University’s assessment management software. This means that all essays are checked automatically against an enormous database of essays and also against all sources on the Internet. In other words, if you can find it on the Internet so can we – automatically. So plagiarising even isolated chunks of text from such sources is pointless – it will be detected.
Please see Part Eight for details of late penalties.
Dissertations must be submitted in the proper format, namely:
• securely bound, single-sided, double-spaced and printed on good quality A4 white paper; there is no specific guidelines for the type of binding, most students opt for comb binding with a clear plastic cover.
• title page specifying dissertation title, author's name, academic year, statement that 'This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MSc in [insert degree title]';
• statement that 'This dissertation contains no plagiarism, has not been submitted in whole or in part for the award of another degree, and is solely the work of [insert full name]' followed by the candidate's signature, candidate's name and the date.
• abstract of no more than two pages' length summarising the content of the dissertation and a word count (details of inclusions and exclusions above);
• list of contents (including chapter titles and sub-headings);
• lists of abbreviations, tables, diagrams, maps, pictures, and http://www.ukassignment.org/ appendixes; and text which is no fewer than 10,000 words long and no more than 15,000 words long (details of inclusions and exclusions overleaf)
• the dissertation may include a dedication page if you wish.
You may see other versions of these requirements elsewhere. Those will be more generic ones. Please follow these departmental ones.
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