Dissertation requirements and format
You are required to submit two copies of your dissertation by
the middle of September of the relevant year. This is the end of
the first academic year for full-time students and the end of the
second academic year for part-time students.
Your dissertation must be typed or word-processed and bound in
suitable (soft) binding. The length limit for the dissertation is
10000 words (excluding appendices). You will be penalised if you
exceed this limit by more than 20%. If you consider that you have
a special case for needing more words than this, you should write
to the convenor (currently Neil Smith) specifying your reasons
before the end of the summer term.
The format for the dissertation is as follows. It should be
either double spaced or 1.5 spaced in 11 or 12 point type, with
wide margins to both left and right. The pages should be numbered
throughout, beginning with the title page. It is normal for the
title page to be followed by a list of Contents, and then either
an Introduction or an Abstract. It is customary, but not
obligatory, to have a paragraph of acknowledgements, thanking
those who have helped you in your work.
After the main sections of the dissertation, there should be a
Conclusion and finally an alphabetic list of References,
containing every item referred to in the text.
The title page should include the information given in the
mock-up below.
A complete list of previous MA dissertation titles can be
found here.
Most of them can be borrowed for brief periods from the convenor.
The Acquisition of Martian
Morphology:
A study of learnability theory
Bruce Mekon
Department of Phonetics & Linguistics
University College London
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment
of
The requirements for the MA in Linguistics
September 2, 1997