Quote From joyce:
I've had a look, but I think it is aimed more at undergrads? at my uni there are loads of booklets on all sorts of aspects of writing, and I suspect they are also online, as is material concerning referencing etc. for undergrads, and of course anyone else can access this. I think my uni expects postgrads to recognise their own weaknesses and go and find the help themselves, the librarians would always help anyone who needed assistance in this kind of process - I know because I used to work in the library on a Saturday on the helpdesk. One of the things with total reliance on computers to help students in these kind of areas is that they don't always explain things in more than one way so if you can't understand it the first time it just gives you more of the same instead of trying a different angle which can be annoying and unproductive.
Thank you for the insight, Joyce. The survey is, in fact, the first version of the instrument I want to use. This version merely checks if I'm moving in the right direction. I'd welcome opinions of any level of university students. The fact that your university expects your level of students to solve their problems on their own is not relevant. My aim is to get students' opinions about certain content management methods that I've discussed in the survey (e-books, videos, etc.) and which British universities can use to improve the quality of guidance material produced for dissertation writing. Undergraduates can give their opinion based on their expectations and how gratifying, or otherwise, their experience of dissertation writing is turning out to be, while graduates can respond under the light of their previous experience. If anything, their responses can be more enlightening.
Thank you once again for your time :)
