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External case study: Five top tips for effective dissertation guidance

The Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching at the University of Bristol has posted this article by Hailey Yoon about supervising Masters dissertations in Economics.

My dissertation group consists of students of a one-year Master’s program in Economics. The focus of my group is on empirical research using data, and most of my students are international, with little to no prior experience in writing dissertations. To guide them effectively, I asked myself a fundamental question “Why do my students find dissertation writing so challenging?”

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