Hi,

I am currently heading into the second part of my Masters degree in Marketing from where i will then complete a 25,000 word thesis. As a part of one of my up and coming modules i will start this work off with a research proposal the only problem i have is deciding on my actual topic..

At the moment i have no set ideas whatsoever and i am just interested in your opinions and suggestions about certain areas that may be worth looking into for guidance. As i stated i am a Marketing student and i have found that my passion lies in the area of Advertising and Marketing Communications therefore would base my thesis research within these topics. I am also however extremely interested in consumer behaviour having a strong psychological background at A level.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
:-)

Hi,

I have recently started studying towards an MA in Marketing following my BA degree in the same subject. I do genuinely njoy various aspects of the subject and there are areas that i am not so keen on giving it is a rather wide area. Throughout my BA degree i rarely got near a first but managed to pull out a good 2:1. I have never struggled with work before and have never really gotten marks below a certain point but the BA was a wake up, part of me thought i must be getting dumber with other people around me suddenly finding something in themselves. I had always said i wanted to try postgraduate though and went straight onto this MA full time. Ever since it began a couple of months ago all i have heard from the lecturers is how much of a big step up it is from undergraduate and how hard it is and how it is almost impossible to get a distinction. From people out there who are currently doing or have completed an MA is this really true? It's so frustrating as they do not want to tell us exactly what we need to do to go up a level all that is said is reading journals but i did this for undergraduate for every single piece of work i did so i am a little bit confused. I also received a distinction, just, for my first piece of work last week but all the feedback received was positive which has left me wondering where marks were lost so what do we actually have to do to get that distinction.

3 weeks away from two exams and a large essay due in i am beginning to lose motivation, questioning whether it can be done at all. I am worried that the essays i am submitting are not going up a level and are just me stuck in the pattern of undergraduate.

Any help or advice would be brilliant from anyone,
Thank you :-)