Tanning essay update
Nov. 9th, 2010 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ossamentaI realised that I haven't posted about my tanning essay for a long while now, and surely there must be some readers who wonder what's happening on that line.
The essay is finished (yay!) and has been handed in. I will present and defend it at the end of November in Visby. By then, I will also have received someone else's essay that I will be the opponent of. This is quite different from the UK system, where once your essay is handed in, you just wait for your supervisor and an external examiner to mark it, and let you know what your marks were. Some of my MA course mates in Southampton were quite surprised when I said that our undergraduate and postgraduate essays are presented like Ph.D. theses are - obviously a way of training us how it's done, in the same way that undergraduate essays prepare students for postgrad and Ph.D. writing.
It will be a rather brief visit, having one day in Visby, one in Stockholm and two in Malmö before I fly back again to London. Still, it's better than just flying in and out, and I want to save some holidays left for next year, since it's so much nicer holidaying when it's a bit warmer!
The essay is finished (yay!) and has been handed in. I will present and defend it at the end of November in Visby. By then, I will also have received someone else's essay that I will be the opponent of. This is quite different from the UK system, where once your essay is handed in, you just wait for your supervisor and an external examiner to mark it, and let you know what your marks were. Some of my MA course mates in Southampton were quite surprised when I said that our undergraduate and postgraduate essays are presented like Ph.D. theses are - obviously a way of training us how it's done, in the same way that undergraduate essays prepare students for postgrad and Ph.D. writing.
It will be a rather brief visit, having one day in Visby, one in Stockholm and two in Malmö before I fly back again to London. Still, it's better than just flying in and out, and I want to save some holidays left for next year, since it's so much nicer holidaying when it's a bit warmer!