gracious86
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If you are doing your Master's from a British university then, will have to write a dissertation.
If you are doing your PhD from a British university, you will have to write a thesis.
If you are doing your Master's from an American university, you will have to write a thesis.
If you are doing your Ph.D. from an American university, you will have to write a dissertation.
Normally, in undergraduate degree programs, depending on the respective program curriculum, a final year project is called "Final project dissertation". For postgraduate degrees (MSc/MA etc. and PhDs) the term Dissertation and Thesis are interchangeably used. For example it is called a Dissertation for MSc in......, or Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation. However, a research paper can not in any way be called a Dissertation nor a Thesis. You will probably call it "Final Research Paper". How was it called in your program curriculum?
Normally, in undergraduate degree programs, depending on the respective program curriculum, a final year project is called "Final project dissertation". For postgraduate degrees (MSc/MA etc. and PhDs) the term Dissertation and Thesis are interchangeably used. For example it is called a Dissertation for MSc in......, or Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation. However, a research paper can not in any way be called a Dissertation nor a Thesis. You will probably call it "Final Research Paper". How was it called in your program curriculum?
If your study involves a coursework and research part that research report is your dissertation. If you do a research 100% without any coursework then your big report is going to be a thesis!!!
dearest wadau, hivi eti kuna tofauti gani kati ya dissertation na thesis? Au zote sawa? I did my research pepa last yr ya chuo kikuu,sasa nashndwa niiweke kwenye category ya dissertation au thesis.. Plz help.....
Mkuu naomba nami nitoe maoni yangu juu ya tofauti zilizopo kati ya maneno hayo. Kwa namna yanavotumika unaweza ukadhani kwamba, yote ni sawa. Lakini kwa kile ambacho academic Institutions nyingi zinakifuata ni kwamba Thesis ni andiko la kitaaluma katika fani fulani kwa hatua ya shahada ya uzamili au uzamivu ambalo halihusishi course work. Na kumbe kwa dissertation ina maana programme hiyo mwanafunzi anafanya kwanza course work na ndipo kama sehemu ya kukamilisha ataandika tasnifu ambayo huitwa dessertation. Vyuo vikuu vingi duniani hutoa Shahada ya uzamili na uzamivu kwa mtindo wa thesis au course work with dissertation. Vyuo vingi Ujerumani, Netherlands, Australia hufuata mfumo huu wa thesis. Lakini vyuo vingi uingereza hutanguliwa na course work na mwisho huishia na dissertation. UDSM kwa muda wote mathalani imekuwa ikito PhD katika fani zote kwa thesis isipokuwa PhD ya Economics, ingawaje kwa sasa PSPA nao wameanza kutoa PhD kwa course work.
Nadhani kwa hicho ulichokiuliza kama umefanya course darasani basi hiyo itakuwa ni dissertation kama ni level ya shahada ya uzamili. Ingawa kuna misuse ya kutumia neno dissertation kwa shahada ya kwanza kwa maoni yangu ile ni research report na sio dissertation.
Nawasilisha wakuu.
If your study involves a coursework and research part that research report is your dissertation. If you do a research 100% without any coursework then your big report is going to be a thesis!!!