Ex. 2. Which of these statements are true? Correct the false ones

1. The dissertation requires time and much intellectual effort.

2. Any work found to contain plagiarism will automatically be assigned a mark of zero.

3. It almost always takes some time before the topic of the dissertation finally takes shape.

4. Dissertations must include a full bibliography listing all the sources you have consulted.

5. The copy of the submitted dissertation must have title page, main body, bibliographical apparatus and table of content.

6. It is up to the student to choose his or her dissertation topic and supervisor.

7. Supervised by an experienced faculty member, an MA student is not expected to undertake a lot of individual initiative in conducting research.

8. Plagiarism will normally result in the failure of the dissertation regardless of any merit it may have.

9. Students have extra three days to submit their dissertations for formal assessment after the published deadline.

10. Don’t use footnotes in the text of a MA dissertation.

LANGUAGE TRAINING

Ex. 1. Fill in the correct word from the list below. Use the phrases to make sentences

Medium-length, unintended ‘ghost-writing’ bound meticulous primary viable original

……………………………….article ……………………………...sources ………………………...contribution …………………………..references

………………………….plagiarism ……………………………agencies ………………………………..copy ……………………………..project

Ex. 3. Which of the adjectives below would you use to characterize your supervisor as a scholar and which to describe him/ her as a person? Give reasons for your choice. What adjectives would you add?

renown respected thoughtful energetic

well-known distinguished passionate charismatic

outstanding prominent enthusiastic open/ closed

famous talented engrossed in his research persuasive