MA presenting your work

Formative work will often precede a larger summative assessment, e.g. a 1000 word essay worth 35% of an overall module mark submitted several weeks before a longer essay worth 65% over the overall mark. Unless otherwise indicated, formative work will be anonymous. 

You may also be asked to complete formative work that does not count towards your overall module mark - this does not require a coversheet. 

Essays should include a coversheet providing key information about you and your work. You should add this coversheet as the first page of your work. 

Please note that your registration number can be found on your uCard and is the 9 digit number beginning with your year of entry (i.e. 24). 

• MA Formative Coursework Coversheet (view access)

• MA Formative Coursework Coversheet (take a copy of the document)

Find out how to calculate word count in Word and Google Docs.

Headers/footers

You should also include the following information in a header or footer:

• your registration number

• the module code

• page numbers

Summative work is the final, and generally most important, piece of assessed work on a module. All summative assessment is marked anonymously – you should not put your name anywhere on any of your assessed work.

Essays should include a coversheet providing key information about you and your work. You should add this coversheet as the first page of your work. 

Please note that your registration number can be found on your uCard and is the 9 digit number beginning with your year of entry (i.e. 24). 

• MA Summative Coursework Coversheet (view access)

• MA Summative Coursework Coversheet (take a copy of the document)

Find out how to calculate word count in Word and Google Docs.

Headers/footers

You should also include the following information in a header or footer:

• your registration number

• the module code

• page numbers

Individual reflective essays

See information for summative essays and other standard written work

Group work

You will submit one copy of your work as a group. As with all summative submissions, the work should be anonymous as far as possible so you should avoid including names in your work.

All summative assessment is marked anonymously – you should not put your name anywhere on any of your assessed work.

Dissertations should include a coversheet providing key information about you and your work. You should add this coversheet as the first page of your work. 

Please note that your registration number can be found on your uCard and is the 9 digit number beginning with your year of entry (i.e. 24). 

• MA Dissertation Coversheet (view access)

• MA Dissertation Coversheet (take a copy of the document)

Find out how to calculate word count in Word and Google Docs.

Headers/footers

You should also include the following information in a header or footer:

• your registration number

• the module code

• page numbers