The Dissertation is the final stage of the MMus in Musicology, completing work started in Preparation for Final Project module. Most of this work takes place over the summer, and should be largely independent; students should, however, meet their supervisors over the summer for supervision or exchange drafts and comments via emails. Students may submit a complete draft of the dissertation to the supervisor for comments, by a date mutually agreed with the supervisor. Supervisors’ comments will primarily address questions of organisation, emphasis and argument. In addition, supervisors may supply detailed commentary on prose style for a short section of the draft to act as a model for prose revision in the remainder of the dissertation. (Supervisors will not, however, edit prose style for the entire dissertation, principal responsibility for which remains with the student.)
