Full Honors Guide(Includes Interm)
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- School of Engineering and Built Environment
- Dept. of Computer, Communications & Interactive Systems
- Session 2018/2019
- UTable of Contents
- 1 Introduction to this Guidance Material
- 1.1 Contents and Purpose of this Handbook/Study Guide
- 1.2 Co-ordination and Management of the Honours Projects
- 1.3 The importance of the Honours Project
- 1.4 The importance of understanding the project module, planning it and the amount of effort involved
- 1.5 Support and Assistance in undertaking your Honours Project
- 1.6 A common student misconception regarding the role of an Honours Project Supervisor
- 1.7 Outlining the Material in this Guidance Handbook
- 1.8 Learning what is meant by a research-based project at Honours Level
- 1.9 Research Question / Problem Statement
- 1.10 Using “supplementary” methods
- 1.11 The distinction between Primary and Secondary Research
- 1.12 BCS Accreditation Requirements
- 2 Steps in undertaking your Project
- 2.1 Step 1 - Selecting your topic - done in RSPI
- 2.2 Step 2 - Undertaking the Initial Literature Review to identify a research question - done in RSPI
- 2.3 Step 3 – The Main Literature Review and Technology Assessment, learning what others have found out about your area
- 2.4 Step 4 – Fully design methods for Primary Research
- 2.5 Step 5 – The practical implementation (Execution) phase
- 2.6 Step 6 – Collating and analysing results
- 2.7 Step 7 – Thinking critically about your approach and the data
- 2.8 Step 8 – Drawing overall conclusions
- 2.9 Writing up
- 3 The Honours Project Timescales and Milestones
- 4 Dealing with Ethical Approval of your Project
- 5 Interim Report format
- 6 Final Project Report format
- 7 Handing in your Honours Report
- 8 Honours Conference and Project Poster Presentation
- 9 Assessment of the Project
- 10 Supervision of Projects
- 11 Turnitin and Plagiarism
- 12 Appendix A: Ethics guidelines for Honours Project students
- Appendix B: University Policy on Project and Dissertation Supervision
- Appendix C: Supervisory meeting record sheet