ThesisReviewPage

11:00 - 16:00 review and work on texts
16:00 - group review of texts group feedback. 
17:00 - end
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Bring a print out your thesis draft to the session

Hand printout your to your colleague.

Read your colleague's text.

Make notes for feedback.

Go through the list of guidelines for readers and consider the degree to which your colleague has met those criteria. Remember this is a first draft, so it's a good opportunity to help the writer consider how to improve their text.

guidelines for readers

Remember, the text you are reading today isa DRAFT, there is plenty ofoppotunity for the writer to make changes and address the points you make today.

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: When the writing tutors make the final grading in trimester six, the thesis and the final project are graded together (see criteria in handbook).

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

Note: the texts poured today may take the form of a series of stories, descriptions of work, a diary of the process. Remember it is very possible to cover the above points using a variety of modes of address (so it doesn't have to be an 'academic' to meet the above criteria.