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SECOND READER GUIDELINES 2025

Outcome: Maximum 500 words, feedback on the draft thesis.

Deadline: 28-03-2025. Please send your feedback and CC the writing tutor.

How To

Please formulate in positive terms, what, in your opinion, needs to be done to improve the text and for the text to meet the criteria for a pass.

In your 500-word (max) response please try to address these questions:

Is the central question clear?
Is there a clear development of an argument?
If not, what measures, in your view, can be taken to make the text clearer?

Note: It is very important that second readers do not duplicate the work of the writing tutors. Therefore, please do not offer tutorials specifically about the thesis, but rather try to make your written feedback as concise as possible.

Note: When we make the final grading in trim six, the thesis and the final project are graded together (see criteria in handbook).

Why second readers?

To offer a second pair of eyes on the thesis (in addition to the writing tutor) at an advanced draft stage.
To give due warning if the thesis is unlikely to meet the standards for the master program (see assessment criteria below)
To give time for the writer to make changes ahead of the final deadline.
To provide diligence. To make sure all students receive appropriate attention.

Assessment Criteria

To help you make an assessment of the (draft) thesis specifically, here are the outcome criteria for essays that the students are encouraged to follow:

Intelligibly express your ideas, thoughts and reflections in written English
Articulate in writing a clear direction of your graduate project by being able to identify complex and coherent questions, concepts and appropriate forms
Clearly structure and analyse an argument
Use relevant source material and references
Research texts and practices and reflect upon them analytically
Synthesize different forms of knowledge in a coherent, imaginative and distinctive manner
Position ones own views within a broader context
Recognize and perform the appropriate mode of address within a given context
Engage in active dialogue about your written work with others

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+== SECOND READER GUIDELINES 2025 ==
+'''Outcome''': Maximum 500 words, feedback on the draft thesis.
-Notes to tutors
+'''Deadline''': 28-03-2025. Please send your feedback and CC the writing tutor.
+=== How To ===
-Second reader guidelines 2017
+Please formulate in '''positive terms''', what, in your opinion,  needs to be done to improve the text and for the text to meet the criteria for a pass.
+In your 500-word (max) response please try to address these questions:
-Outcome:
+* Is the central question clear?
+* Is there a clear development of an argument?
+* If not, what measures, in your view, can be taken to make the text clearer?
-A4 (maximum 500 words) feedback on the draft thesis.
+''Note: It is very important that second readers do not duplicate the work of the writing tutors.'' Therefore, please do not offer tutorials specifically about the thesis, but rather try to make your written feedback as concise as possible.
-Why second readers:
+''Note: When we make the final grading in trim six, the thesis and the final project are graded together (see criteria in handbook).''
+=== Why second readers? ===
+* To offer a second pair of eyes on the thesis (in addition to the writing tutor) at an advanced draft stage.
+* To give due warning if the thesis is unlikely to meet the standards for the master program (see assessment criteria below)
+* To give time for the writer to make changes ahead of the final deadline.
+* To provide diligence. To make sure all students receive appropriate attention.
-To offer a second pair of eyes on the thesis (in addition to the writing tutor) at an advanced draft stage.
+=== Assessment Criteria ===
-To give due warning if the thesis is unlikely to meet the standards for the master program (see assessment criteria attached)
-To give time for the writer to make changes ahead of the final deadline.
-To provide diligence. To make sure all students receive attention.
-It is very important that second readers do not duplicate the work of the writing tutors.
-Therefore, please do not offer tutorials specifically about the thesis, but rather try to make your written feedback as concise as possible.  If you have further concerns please communicate them to the writing tutor.
-In your 500 word (max) response please try to address general questions such as:
-Is the central question clear?
-Is there a clear development of an argument?
-If not, what measures can be taken to make the text clearer?
-Note: When we make the final grading in trim six, the thesis and the final project are graded together (see criteria below).
 To help you make an assessment of the (draft) thesis specifically, here are the outcome criteria for essays that the students are encouraged to follow:
+* Intelligibly express your ideas, thoughts and reflections in written English
-  evidence of a clearly structured analysis and argument
+* Articulate in writing a clear direction of your graduate project by being able to identify complex and coherent questions, concepts and appropriate forms
+* Clearly structure and analyse an argument
-  use of relevant source material and references
+* Use relevant source material and references
+* Research texts and practices and reflect upon them analytically
-  clarity of writing
+* Synthesize different forms of knowledge in a coherent, imaginative and distinctive manner
+* Position ones own views within a broader context
-  attention to alternate arguments and sources
+* Recognize and perform the appropriate mode of address within a given context
+* Engage in active dialogue about your written work with others
-  ability to research texts and practices and reflect upon them analytically
-  ability to manage ‘interdisciplinary’ material
-  clear referencing according to the Harvard system
-  ability to position ones own views within a broader context