Dear student,

in your final year you will need to work on a project that will require a substantial amount of your time. There is plenty of information available on this subject, please have a look at the material available on myunihub for your specific project module.

It is very likely that you will be able to choose the topic of your project in collaboration with your supervisor. Remember to choose something that you like, because you will need to spend a lot of time on it. If you like to write code, then you can develop a tool. If coding is not exactly your favourite activity, you can probably identify a problem and work on a systematic review of existing solutions for it, and propose new approaches for solving it. See our recent work on Systematic Literature Reviews to have an idea of this kind of activity.

There is also plenty of information available on how to cite material; don’t worry, you are welcome to report verbatim entire phrases from existing documents, provided you quote them in the appropriate way and you provide a reference for them. See the material available at this link for further guidance:

http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/ldu/onlineresources/referencing-plagiarism/index.aspx

In all cases, remember that you cannot take “shortcuts”. I had too many cases of students postponing their project until the last minute, and then submitting work created by someone else. Remember that is is not enough to have a positive originality report from Turnitin… I have investigated this problem as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education: please have a look at this report on the effectiveness of anti-plagiarism software if you are curious about the topic.