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work, you should make this clear in the text wherever necessary, e.g. 'I am grateful to A. Smith for analysing the sodium content of these samples'; • be especially careful if cutting and pasting work from electronic media; do not fail to attribute the work to its source. If authorship of the electronic source is not given, ask yourself whether it is worth copying. 3 The Golden Rule: TRANSLATION The examiners must be in no doubt as to which parts of your work are your own original work and which are the rightful property of someone else. Direct quotations from primary sources (manuscript or print) and from any secondary source in a foreign language must be translated. The dissertation writer, in consultation with the supervisor, can choose whether to quote the original source in the text with translation in the notes, or the other way round, provided both are there. If the source is summarised or paraphrased in English in the text, it is sufficient simply to give the reference. THE TYPESCRIPT We do not give guidance on the preparation of a typescript, on bibliographies and footnoting. There will be a two-hour class on footnoting and preparing a bibliography, at which you will be given samples showing various ways of doing these. There are a number of acceptable conventions that you can use; the main principle is to be consistent. Choose your system and stick to it. There are, however, certain conventions that you must observe. These will be explained to you in the class. If you are in doubt as to which convention to employ, always seek the advice of your Supervisor. One helpful source of very detailed guidance on all aspects of bibliographical style and other conventions, such as abbreviations, spelling, capitalization, etc., is the style guide of the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association), available as a PDF download: www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtm/ See, for example, sections 2 (Spelling), 3 (Abbreviations), 4 (Punctuation), 9 (Footnotes and endnotes), 10 (References) Always make regular backups of your computer files, as well as hard copy print-outs. Have your dissertation printed on one side of A4 paper (on a laser printer or a good inkjet printer). You may wish to make use of the laser printing facilities provided in the Faculty's Graduate Research Room. You must submit two bound copies of your dissertation and a CD electronic version. Use footnotes rather than endnotes. Leave margins of at least 1½ inches (40mm) at the top, the left and the foot, and 1 inch (25mm) at the right. Everything in the main text should be one-and-a-half spaced, except indented quotations and footnotes (at the foot of the page) which should be single-spaced. Double-spacing is allowable but one-and-a-half spacing is now preferred. There is no prescribed typeface but it is strongly recommended that the candidate should use simple classical typefaces (such as Times Roman or Courier). Use 11pt or 12 pt for the body of the text and 10 pt or 11 pt for footnotes. Modern word-processing programmes are capable of producing accents and non-roman characters, as well as printing mathematical symbols and equations. Candidates are advised to use such word-processing packages but in the case of rare languages the appropriate fonts may not be available, in which case handwritten additions to the typed texts are allowed. See that any handwriting is entirely legible, and that subscripts and superscripts are clearly positioned. 41
HEADINGS Do not use more than three kinds of headings within a chapter; the more kinds there are, the more difficult it will be for the reader to distinguish one grade from another. ABBREVIATIONS A list of the abbreviations used in the text and the footnotes should be placed at the beginning of the thesis, after the preface. This list is also excluded from the total word count. TABLES Tables may be typed on separate sheets or in the text. Tables of more than four lines should be numbered and referred to in the text by number rather than ‘as follows’. Do check your tables carefully. Are they in the form that the reader will find most helpful? Will the reader be able to compare one set of values with another? Are all units, percentages and totals identified? Do the totals tally with the individual values? Are the sources given in the same form for each table? In case of doubt, consult your Supervisor. If you are using a word processor, you may find that such tables are better typed separately. Unless you are sufficiently skilled, you may waste a lot of time trying to put them through a computer. Tables in the dissertation, as well as Maps, are counted as the equivalent of 150 words each. FOOTNOTES - IN GENERAL Footnotes must not be used to circumvent the word limit either in an essay or the dissertation. Students can expect to be severely penalised for abusing the proper use of footnotes in this way. Normally the penalty will be a deduction of up to 5 marks from the essay or dissertation, but in severe cases the essay or dissertation may be marked as failed. Wherever possible, footnotes must be confined to references only. The expanding of footnotes to include lengthy digressive notes and other footnotes that are not directly relevant to the actual content of the thesis itself will not be accepted. 42
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