JANE: Can I just check on the deadlines for everything?

DR SIMON: Yes, sure. Look, let me write it on the board ... when the different stages have to lie completed. First of all you've got to work on your basic bibliography, and that’s due in to your course tutor by 31 January ... which is just two weeks away, so you'd better get a move on on that.

ANDY: Do we have to have our own draft plan by then?

DR SIMON: No, your draft plan is due on 7 February, which is a week later, so that should give you plenty of time.

JANE: And when do we have to be doing the research?

DR SIMON: That's over a one-month period ... essentially February to March.

ANDY: And the write up?

DR SIMON: Well, you can't really get going on your writing until you've got quite a bit of the research done, so that's really March to May, with the hand in date on 21st. Any more questions?