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Before you start preparing your assignments make sure to look over the relevant marking criteria.
If you experience difficulties that might affect your ability to meet a deadline it is important that you speak to us as soon as possible.
Preparing your assessed work
Preparing your assessed work
Different modules will have different arrangements regarding their assessment, with many modules giving you considerable flexibility over what to write about in your essays. An overview of the requirements for each module are available through the module information pages. The module convenor will usually provide additional assessment guidance as part of the course booklet or as a separate document - usually these are shared on Blackboard.
You should also be in touch with your module tutors in order to discuss appropriate topics to write about, this should be done in plenty of time ahead of the deadline. This will allow your tutor to provide feedback and make sure that you have understood the requirements, and have selected an appropriate topic for the size of the exercise. If your module includes formative work (i.e. core modules and the dissertation), it is also important that you fully engage with these exercises allowing you to benefit from the feedback and incorporate it into your final assignment. More information on feedback.
Before you start preparing your assignments make sure to look over the relevant marking criteria.
You will use the appropriate referencing style for your discipline, for archaeology programme modules this is Harvard Referencing Style and for history programme modules this is a variant of MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Footnotes.
For Harvard Guidance please see the University's referencing style guides. For MHRA the History style guide offers useful advice on presentation as well as guidelines about referencing and bibliographies.
If your research involves human participants i.e. through interviewing you will need to submit an ethics application before you begin.
It is important to be aware of the University's guidelines and how to avoid academic misconduct.
Example essays and dissertations offer an additional tool to help with your own assignments. They cover a wide range of topics and issues, and together they represent examples of good practice in MA-level essay writing. Currently this folder just includes examples of essays for history modules, we will add some examples for archaeology modules where possible.
They are not, of course, 'model' answers to copy - there is never just one way to write a good history essay - and please be aware of the need to avoid unfair means, as always. The essays will be most useful to you in terms of their approach - how they set out arguments, use evidence and engage with secondary literature. Doing this well is important across all MA modules.
Please note you need to be logged into your Sheffield account to access this folder
Presenting and submitting your assessed work
Presenting and submitting your assessed work
Feedback, resubmission and results
Feedback, resubmission and results
The university allows appeals in cases where you believe a procedural error has occurred with your grade, or cases where there are mitigating circumstances that affected your work and that could not have been disclosed at the time.
Disagreeing with an academic judgement on your work is not considered acceptable grounds for appeal. If you're unsure about whether you have valid grounds for appeal, contact the School in the first instance.
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