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Graduate School of Management

Research Projects Re-Submission Title Page

(including Responses to Examiners’ Comments)

All students required by the Research Projects Committee to revise their Research Project as part of

the examination process must attach this form upon re-submission of their revised Research Project.

Students are also recommended that they use the suggested template when structuring their

responses to the examiner(s)’ comments.

Student ID Number

Student Name

Title of the Research Project

Supervisor

Total Word Count (excluding references

and any appendices)

Overall Similarity Index (%)

1. This form must be typed and attached as a title page to the research project.

2. Titles must be written with only the first letter of each word in capitals (articles and prepositions

excluded).

E.g. Measuring the Benefit of the Investment in SMEs

Examiner Examiner’s comment Response

Location or page

in revised

Research Project

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(add extra rows if necessary)

EXAMPLE of the type of comments that examiners sometimes make, and responses that might be

made. Delete this page when you have completed your own responses to the actual examiners’

comments in the previous table.

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EXAMPLE ONLY

Examiner Examiner’s comment Candidate’s response Location

or page in

revised

Research

Project

1 (Prof.

A)

The abstract needs to be extended

to more accurately reflect the

contents of the thesis.

Abstract has been rewritten. Abstract

1 (Prof.

A)

The literature review has missed

the important article by Smith and

Bloggs (2004).

Discussion of this article

included, and new reference

added.

p.10;

ref 39

1 (Prof.

A)

On page 14, “they’re” is incorrect

– it should be “their”

Corrected 15.3*

1 (Prof. There are not enough subjects in Collecting more data would

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A) the survey, and more data needs to

be collected.

require a several months of time

and effort, and is not practical to

do as a “minor amendment.” For

that reason I am not able to make

this change.

1 (Prof.

A)

Further discussion is required in

Section 4.3 on the meaning of

“suspicious behaviour”

Two sentences have been added

in 4.3 to clarify this term.

p. 88

2 (Prof.

B)

The abstract is too long and needs

to be shortened.

I have not followed this advice

because it conflicts with the

suggestion of Examiner 1

1 and 2 Both these examiners recommend

splitting Chapter 5 into two parts.

Chapter 5 has been divided in

two parts (new Chapters 5 and 6)

and following chapters have been

renumbered accordingly.

Chapters 5

and 6

2 (Prof.

B)

The axes in Figure 6.2 have not

been labelled properly.

Corrected. This is now Figure 7.2

due to the change in chapter

numbering.

Fig 7.2,

p.137

* A number like “15.3” means approximately 3 tenths of the way down page 15.

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