GENERAL
CONSIDERATIONS

Submission of the
report

All information
related to the submission of the Final Dissertation report is included in
the Procedemento de oferta, adxudicación e defensa dos Traballos de Fin
de Grao, available at the Faculty of Sciences website (Traballos de
Fin de Grao section).

Formatting requirements for the final (written) report

The final report
of the Final Dissertation must be signed by the supervisor or supervisors. It
is important to consider, though, that this will never be a substitute for the
official authorisation of the defense signed in the "secretaría
virtual" by, at least, one of the the supervisor/s.

The final report
must include, at least, a summary (250-300 words) with key words, an introduction to the topic,
a section or chapter setting out the aims of the project, a section describing
the materials, methods and experimental procedures (if any), a description of
the obtained results, a discussion or critical analysis of the results, the
conclusions of the project (if any) and the bibliographic references used. In
addition to all this, at least the summary and the conclusions should be
written in english (as well as in galician and spanish).

-The format of the report will also be evaluated, and it must conform to the
following basic requirements:

1. Title page. A
compulsory title page model can be downloaded from the Faculty of Science
website (Traballos de Fin de Grao section)

2. Lenght: Minimum 35 pages and maximum 50 pages or minimum 10.000 words and maximum 15.000 words (esta cifra se corresponde con unas 40-45 páginas con cierta carga gráfica), not including the cover, the supervisor signature page, the summary and
the index, but annex will be included.

3. Margins not
below 2 cm (top, bottom, left and right)

4. Body text:
Arial (or equivalent), 12 points / Captions and headings in figures and tables:
not less than 10 points

5. Single to 1,5
lines spacing

-The supervisor or
supervisors will decide whether they want to use plagiarism detection
software or not, although the use of turnitin is strongly recommended.
The reports not analysed using turnitin can be presented, although they will
not be included in the institutional repository of the University of A Coruña
(RUC)

Requirements for
the oral presentation

1. The student
will present the aims, methodology, contents and conclusions (if any) of their
project in a maximum time of 15 minutes (10 minutes is strongly recommended).
The evaluation committee will inform the student of the available time at the
beginning of the defence.

2. After the
project is presented by the student, they will discuss their results with the
evaluation committee. Members of the committee will make all the comments and
questions they consider relevant. A maximum time of 5 minutes per member of the
committee is strongly recommended. The discussion of the Final Dissertation
should not last for more than 20 minutes. Refusing to answer the committee's
questions will cause the Final Dissertation to be assessed with a qualification
of 4 points or less.   

3. The oral
presentation of the work can be conducted online when circumstances make
on-site presentation unadvisable. The student can also request for the
presentation of their work to be carried out online when there are compelling
reasons, but this will always have to be granted by the Dean. 

Assessment considerations

The assessment of
the Final Dissertation is the responsability of the evaluation committee. After
the Final Dissertation has been submitted and presented, the evaluation committee
will assess the student's work. The grade of the Final Dissertation will be the
arithmetic mean of the marks given by each member of the evaluation committee,
always taking into account the assessment made by the supervisor/s of the
student (30% of the final grade).

Students whose
grade in the Final Dissertation is 9 or above are elegible for a distinction
(Matrícula de Honra), always depending on the evaluation committee's criteria.

Students who fail
their Final Dissertation will receive a document produced by the evaluation
committee with its recommendations for the improvement of the report. A copy of
said document will also be submitted to the supervisor/s of the work.

Students can
appeal their Final Dissertation grades following the process described in the
UDC assessment regulations  (article 31, Normativa de Avaliación,
Revisión e Reclamación das Cualificacións dos Estudos de Grao e Mestrado
Universitario).

Enrollment allows
the student to submit and present their Final Dissertation report in the two
opportunities included in each term, always according to the UDC regulations.
Students who fail to pass their Final Dissertation (or absent themselves) in
the two opportunities included in each term will have to re-enroll. They will
not need to choose a different topic for their Final Dissertation, as long as
there is agreement between the student and the supervisor/s and the student
requests it.

The
supervisor or supervisors will assess the quality and contents of the written
report, as well as the different competencies included in the final
dissertation rubric.

In theis assessment, the members of the evaluation committee will
consider the quality of the written report and the oral presentation, as well
as different competencies included in the final dissertation rubric.