To think 3 weeks is enough time to write up a dissertation?

It's doable I know someone who did theirs in the 2 days before it was handed in and did an all nighter. They got a shockingly grade but scraped a pass

Use Endnote for references. Lifesaver.

You will be fine. You have your plan in place. Assuming it’s 10,000 words it’s doable good luck

Yes if not working/no major responsibilities.

I agree with the PP who said get your references in order as soon as it starts to take shape.

You have your chapters- I would go for broke for two days and get a rough draft and then do references for a day before restarting to re-edit.

I have a shorter 4000 word essay due next week for my doctorate and I’m working on the editing stage now. I like to just write and not worry too much to give me the structure and then refine and add extra evidence where it needs it.

In fact that’s why I’m up now. I’ll do two hours now before the house wakes up.

(including all reading and research!)

More than enough time! I wrote mine in 4 days and got a 2:1

If you have to do it, you'll do it. Good luck!

11 hours. One draft only, on the 3rd extension. Sat down at 11am in a chair and didn't really move until it was done

I had chronic undiagnosed ADHD at that point though. Three weeks is a lifetime, just set yourself regular goals (i.e. 200 words then a break and a treat). It's an immense feeling once it's done, it makes all the stress worth it

Unless you have undiagnosed ADHD. Then you're fucked

But they want me back for masters so it must have been ok(ish)

Totally doable. You just need to survive on tea, marmalade and toast and pull some very late nights.

I wrote mine in 2 weeks (after faffing about for the large part of a year 😂). Mine was literature and history based. I got a good 2:1.

DH wrote his in 4 days!!! Chemistry. And got a first. He survived the long weekend by drinking a slab of full fat coke and eating a 48-pack box of wotsits 😆

Undergrad, 10,000 words and your research and outline are done? You are fine. I would start this weekend though unless it’s absolutely impossible. Aim to get it to your advisor earlier than later because you want as much time for revision as you can get.

10,000 words is easily doable in three weeks. Mine was 10,000 words and I wrote it up in about four days. If you’ve got all your research done, writing it up is the easy bit.

Entirely normal for an undergraduate dissertation. I've taught at several universities and IME 1-5 weeks is a normal amount of time for writing up a dissertation, once the research is done.

It's quite a comfort to know I don't stand alone in doing my dissertation against the clock.

My mate was proof reading it, a page at a time while, I was fixing the spelling, typos, grammar on the page she'd just read. The uni technician bound it together for me.

Other than her reading it, it was 100% mine, no lecturer input!

Good luck! You sound ready to go, which will help. I do think it will have some challenges, but work out realistically how to use your time, a plan for almost all the days you have. Leave lots of time - more than you need - to tough out your references and bibliography. It takes longer than most people assume, it's very hard to resist the desire to wait and do it as the last task on the agenda, and it really gives a good polish to the work if it is done with precision and flair.

Definitely doable! If you write 1000 words a day at a minimum that's 18 days then 3 days to review! I think on my doctorate some people were still 1000's of words the day before it was due! Personally I like to have things fine well in advance but everyone's different! Im sure you'll be fine! Good luck

I wrote my 8000 masters essay (not even a dissertation so no support/supervisor) over 3 weeks at Xmas

I planned out all the sections I needed to write and how many words in each bit and then picked bits at random to write.

Then lots of reviews (including getting word to read each section aloud)

I also had to do online exams, 4500 words in 24 hours. Entirely doable.

Good luck!

Yep. I wrote my 15000 word one from scratch in a fortnight and got 70 for it.
I didn’t sleep or eat anything but junk for the last 3 days, but I did it. It is possible.

Well I wrote my undergrad dissertation in 48 hours.... I do not recommend that strategy!! But I did pass.

I'm a procrastinator of the highest order.

3 weeks is plenty if you start now and give yourself some word count targets.

Definitely doable, I spent 2 weeks writing mine up (it was supposed to be 16000, ended up more like 20000) and then a week of editing & getting the word count down (which was the hardest / most gruelling bit).

Totally double - if you’ve done the research and know the topic you’ll be alright 😉good Iuck!

Yea I did, I actually did the whole thing in 3 weeks including research, but mine was essentially a literature review rather than primary research. I wrote most of my 5000 word research project for access the night before it was due in (primary research)

I think that’s totally doable

You can easily do it.
I did 3 x 10 hour days and wrote my MSc thesis from start to finish. I got a distinction.
A 2,000-3,000 essay is a day in the library at best, assuming you’ve already done your background reading