What is it about?
This book chapter is about the experiences of 45 students from China completing their Masters dissertations in the UK. the idea of 'different waves' shows how their experience differed according to a number of aspects such as the processes involved. The idea of different coastlines describes the supervisors they encountered who they also experienced as very different.
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Why is it important?
The chapter is important as it gives an in-depth understanding of the nuances and subtleties involved in undertaking the dissertation. This in turn highlights the complexity of the process, something which it is important to understand and convey to leaners undertaking it.
Perspectives
It was fascinating to be able to study such a topic in such depth in subject areas I was unfamiliar with (Mathematics and Computer Science) and to learn how complex and individual the experience of the dissertation was.
Dr Nick Pilcher
Edinburgh Napier University
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This page is a summary of: Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK, January 2011, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230299481_14.
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