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.
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.
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.
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.