REVIEW
by research supervisor of the graduate qualification paper submitted by the second-year student of the 
___________________________________________________________ master’s program at SPbSU
____________Alexandra Vitalievna 
UZIUMOVA_______________________________________________________________
(first name, last name of the student)
titled ____Spanish Civil War Interpretation in Modern Spanish and International Discource______________
(title)
1. Assessment of the paper:
No. Assessment Criteria
(codes of competences according to 
curriculum)
Grade:
• excellent, A (5.0)
• good, B (4.5)
• good, C (4.0)
• satisfactory, D (3.5)
• satisfactory, E (3.0)
• unsatisfactory, F (0.0)
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Reviewer’s Comments
(mandatory for those criteria on which the paper is
assessed critically or downgraded)
1. Academic relevance of 
the research problem
(ОПК-4, ПКА-5)
A (5.0)
2. Scholarly contribution
by the author
(ОПК-4, ПКА-2, ПКА-3, ПКА-5, ПКА6, ПКП-9)
A (5.0)
3. Appropriateness of the 
research objective, 
coherence of research 
objective and research 
tasks
(ОПК-4, ПКА-2, ПКА-5, ПКА-6, 
ПКА-10, ПКП-9)
A (5.0)
4. Quality of the empirical 
scope and of the 
primary sources review
(ПКА-2, ПКА-7, ПКП-4)
A (5.0) However, in my opinion, the author should make 
more critics towards the primary sources.
5. Comprehensiveness of
secondary sources 
(academic literature) 
employed by the author
(ПКА-2, ПКА-7)
A (5.0)
6. Adequacy of chosen 
research methods to the 
stated research objective 
and research tasks
(ПКА-2, ПКА-8, ПКА-10) 
A (5.0)
7. Correspondence of 
empirical results to the 
stated research objective 
and research tasks
(ОПК-7, ПКА-2, ПКА-3, ПКА-5, ПКА6, ПКП-4, ПКП-9)
A (5.0)
 
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If the paper is assessed as “unsatisfactory” based on one of the criteria, the overall recommended grade for the paper is to be “unsatisfactory”, 
in which case a reviewer presents his/her detailed arguments in the Comments section as well as in the Conclusion/Recommendations
section.
8. Text formatting and 
editing
(ОПК-7, ПКА-7)
B (4.0) There are some errors in style and sintaxis.
9. Diligence, consistency,
and responsibility
demonstrated by the
student when writing 
the paper
(ОПК-7, УК-6)
A (5.0)
Average grade: 4.89
2. Conclusion/Recommendations for the evaluation commission:
The Master’s Thesis by Alexandra V. Uziumova should be admitted for defense. Its quality responds to criteria 
established for Master’s Thesis and there is no doubt about scientific relevance of the thesis.
3. Recommended grade (in ECTS):
A (5.0)