To ask for dissertation help please!?

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I have made an account especially for this after years of lurking. My dissertation is due in 4 days. My supervisor is on holiday. I have everything written I am just heavily editing everything. I am analysing my findings over two findings chapters.

My question is, when analysing my findings, can I bring in previous studies there if they aren't in my literature review? For instance, when analysing my findings I've found that reading between the lines, there appears to be feelings of shame and guilt emerging as well as justification for alcohol use. I've found studies to back up that there is a higher prevalence of shame and guilt in individuals with addiction but haven't wrote about that in my literature review.

Do I need to add these studies in my literature review? I find it strange that you have to write the lit review before findings etc because I feel like I'm having to constantly go back and update my lit review.

I know I can't add new studies in discussion chapter but is it okay in the findings chapters? Or does literally everything mentioned have to be included in lit review? Tearing my hair out, can't see the wood from the trees

Thanks in advance

Ffs, if you are supervising such an important part of people's lives then DON'T book annual holiday when the dissertations are due.

Crikey.

@bottleofbeer your post shows you have no idea about how academic study - as an academic or a Masters students - is organised.

It is entirely reasonable for the academic to take annual leave and also not to work on Bank holidays! We're only allowed to take such leave outside of teaching terms, and the time over the Easter Bank holidays is usually not used for teaching - my university closed on Maundy Thursday and won't re-open until tomorrow.

And a Masters student should be independent enough to have a final supervision several weeks before the submission date, so that their supervisor can read a draft, and give feedback for the student to implement.

If the Masters student doesn't have a near-to-final draft at least 2 weeks before submission date, then they haven't planned their time particularly well. Or they've had difficult circumstances to deal with, which are actually nothing to do with the supervisor's reasonable annual leave.

But hey, you go on showing your ignorance of the work of trained experts & insulting them. It's a good look for you.

Ffs, if you are supervising such an important part of people's lives then DON'T book annual holiday when the dissertations are due.

This is such an utterly ridiculous comment!

Yes, I have NO idea about higher education at all.

Except I fucking do 😆

While you're sitting off telling me about my ignorance? Do you have any idea who I am or what I do?

Nope.

What the fuck do you do, genius?

While you're sitting off telling me about my ignorance? Do you have any idea who I am or what I do?

Nope.

What the fuck do you do, genius?

I don't know about @ExMachinaDeus but I have a doctorate and have taught at a top university... and can reliably let you know that supervisors have every right to take leave outside of term time, even if a dissertation or thesis is due. In fact, even my doctoral supervisor did, the week of my thesis submission! Drafts and final submissions come in all year round, not just once a year, and if a supervisor tried to avoid all those dates he or she would never be able to get away!

I'm a schoolteacher now actually, and often have the same ignorant attitude from pupils/parents. They wonder why I have the audacity to go on holiday and not be available via email over Easter holidays or May half term, in the run-up to A Level and GCSE exams, or why I'm not available for pupils over a holiday when a coursework essay is due following it. The entitlement is amazing.

Yeah, I'd feel bloody entitled with the money it costs now.

Maybe It's not obvious, but I may not be any less qualified than you

No, i agree that it's not obvious that you are (or 'may' be) anywhere near that qualified, judging by the rubbish you have been spouting!

(PS I work in a private school, and fees cost a small fortune - far more than uni fees. And I still feel that it is ridiculously entitled for me to be expected to avoid holidays during holiday time because pupils/parents expect me to be available 24/7! Utter rubbish!).

Ok babe x

Ps, well done dropping your amazing job in while telling me I talk shit.

Thanks for the compliment. Nice to have my job thought of as 'amazing'... not something teachers hear very often.

You know? I don't care. I commented to try and help someone and I respect you and your job

This thread is full of useful tips thank you.