Question

research methods

Question One

A student wrote and submitted his final year research work at the masters’ level. When it went for an external assessment the thesis was graded an F-Fail with the comment that “the work is sub-standard and it is not quality.” Based on your knowledge in what goes into a research discuss the possible reasons why the thesis was graded F.                                                       [16 marks]                                                                                               

Answer 1

The poor grading of the thesis could be due to one or more of the following reasons:-

• The entire thesis work may be copied from another source which suggests that the student has made no efforts to produce original work. Copying from another source is aganist academic integrity and the institution has the right to reject the thesis .
• The work included in the thesis may not be backed by reliable data and information. The student must have included fictitious data without doing any ground work. Unreliable or imaginary data has no meaning and the university has the right to reject the thesis.
• The thesis may have high degree of grammatical errrors which produces no meaning to the reader. The institution can reject the thesis because it is not understandable.
• The findings of the thesis may be inconclusive which suggests that the student has not fully completed the research work. Incomplete research can be rejected.