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Assessment of the Dissertation/Reports

Dissertations/reports are normally assessed on the following broad criteria:
Background research.
This assesses your awareness of relevant background work and how your project builds upon or exploits existing techniques or results. For implementation projects, it assesses the way you arrived at your initial project specification, work programme and list of objectives.
General competence.
This assesses your general approach, the clarity of your objectives, and your ability to relate the significance of your achievements to the state-of-the-art.
Technical accuracy.
This assesses the main technical output from the project, as regards correctness, elegance, usability etc. of the final product, theoretical or practical, and the techniques employed. Report. This assesses the quality of the write-up itself: the organisation of the material, quality of the prose, clarity of explanations, spelling, punctuation, legibility, relevance of diagrams, etc. Note that reports falling below minimum acceptable standards will not be accepted.
Finally...
Remember that one of your supervisor's main responsibilities is to advise on how to write-up your project results. You are not expected to be able to produce a perfect dissertation without help. You should discuss with your supervisor all aspects of the dissertation, but particularly its structure and how to present the material. You might find it useful to look at MSc dissertations from previous years.
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