Capstone Project Checkpoint

Time Management

1.Time Management

2. Interaction with the Supervisor

3. Some Additional Tips

More information

Designing a workable plan
(From University of Arizona)

Planning your dissertation
(From University of Reading)

You could think about starting with time management. More often than not, students seriously underestimate the amount of time required to complete a thesis or dissertation. Breaking the whole project into parts may allow you to visualize the task that lies before you.

A capstone project is based on the proposal completed in the pre-requisite subject, so you probably will not worry about project topic. But we will provide you with some project topics by BAESP graduates on the page called “Topics”.

The project is to be finished within two semesters, and you may consider following the schedule, as follows:

Months	Deadlines	Milestones	Remark
0.5		Refining the dissertation structure	Give progress reports to supervisor by email. The report could involve the reviewed literature, collected data and your written sections.
1		Further search of literature
1		Completion of introduction and literature review
1		Completion of methodology
0.5		Completion of data collection and starting data analysis	Obtaining preliminary results at the end of the first semester
1		Completion of data analysis
2.5		Writing up of the project
0.5		Editing and proofing

You can schedule the project ahead with your supervisor, or discuss the schedule with students from other degree programmes. Meeting deadlines will help to keep you focused and complete the project on schedule.