Final year is that time when every students start going about their research project work, thesis, dissertation, seminars and paper. Final year research project carry a higher credit unit hence a need for higher performance among students.
Over the years, one of the major problems most students faced when writing their project is the issue of rejection by their project supervisors. There is always variation of wants and desire from various supervisors across various departments in most tertiary intuitions in Nigeria. Some students are lucky with the supervisor given to them while others are not. Some student tend to carry over their project to the year academic year because cancellation from their supervisor. There are so many reasons why your project supervisor cancels your project or thesis. Below are some of the reasons why your project supervisor cancels your project.
WHY YOUR RESEARCH WORK WAS REJECT BY YOUR SUPERVISOR
-YOUR REFERENCES ARE OUTDATED:
There are so many research works online and in various school or university libraries. Most of these documents or past project work are outdated. Their references are old. When a final year project students goes online to get materials for the research project work; they tend to get materials that are outdated. When there supervisor sees their project and notice that most of the authors cited are dated; their project gets rejected by their supervisor.
It is better for a final year students that want to carry out their research project work to go online and search for free recent research project topics and materials. This will enable them get topic that are still fresh with recent references. By so doing, the student have solve this particular problem of their supervisor rejecting their project work because of outdated references.
-THERE ARE SO MANY AI GENERATED CONTENT IN IT:
There seem to be a kind of war between AI and the authenticity of final year research project these days. Most students today still do not know how to write their final year project. Some of them ask chatgpt and other AI tools to write their thesis, dissertation and final year project for them. When these projects are ran through a plagiarism checker like turnitin, etc, they are flagged for plagiarism. Most students are so careless that when they ask chatgpt to help them write their thesis and dissertation, they just print it out and submit without paraphrasing them.
-YOUR AIM AND OBJECTIVES DID NOT ANSWER THE PROBLEM STATEMENT
Another reason why supervisors reject your project work is because your aims and objectives did attempt to solve the problem statement of your research project work. We write aim and objectives in order to solve the problem we stated concerning the project. When your project supervisor look at the statement of the problem, the next place he or she will look is your aim and objectives. The objectives did not address the problem; he or she will cancel your project.
-YOUR AIM AND OBJECTIVES DID NOT REFLECT ON YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW
Almost all final year students when writing their project work of thesis usually make this kind of mistake where their aim and objectives were not discussed on the literature review. So when the supervisor goes through the entire literature and discover that not even a single objective was talked about in the chapter two which is the literature review, he or she tend to cancel or reject the project.
-YOUR METHODOLOGY IS NOT SUITED FOR YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC:
This issue of research methodology is another reason why some supervisors reject the project of some of these students. Most final year students do not know when to use qualitative research design and when to use quantitative research design. The type of topic give to a student determines the type of methodology to be adopted hence another reason why your supervisor rejects your project work.
- THE REFERENCE FORMAT USED:
Lastly is the issue of referencing. As a final year student that is ready to start your project work is very important to know and understand the referencing style your supervisor wants you to use. When you use the wrong type of references, your project supervisor will cancel your references and ask you to redo it.
