Elizabeth Fisher, Daniel Holtom "Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation!:
A Step by Step Guide to Planning and Writing Dissertations and Theses for Undergraduate and Graduate Science Students"
mperial College Press | 1999-09 | ISBN:1860940900 | 278 pages | PDF | 11,7 Mb
Review:
This book is a good start if you have no idea how to go about writing a professional paper. If you have written long term papers in the past and have an academic advisor, this book may not be the one for you, but if you are on your own and have no idea what you are supposed to do... why not.
A dissertation or thesis is not simply a list of experiments with a vague outline of what they all mean. The text needs a clear structure that starts by introducing the reader to the topic, states the aim of the research, shows the results and then discusses their significance. You need a plan. Without one, it is easy to overlook important points or jump about randomly from
idea to idea.
This guide is written on the assumption that you will first develop a complete plan of your thesis or dissertation. Only when this is in place and you can see the structure of your text and have defined your aim, should you start writing.
One sensible approach is to make notes for your project in the following order:
Materials and Methods, also known as ‘Experimental’, ‘Experimental techniques’, ‘Sampling strategy and methodology’, ‘General procedures’, ‘Data acquisition and processing‘, etc. This
chapter of your thesis covers what you did and how you did it.
References. This chapter tells the reader where you got your ideas and information from.
Results. This states what you learnt from your experiments.
Introduction. This introduces the reader to your field of research, your aims, and the experimental system in which you have been working.
Discussion. This should relate the significance of your findings to your field of study, and give your conclusions and suggestions for future research.
Abstract. This is a condensed version of your whole dissertation
or thesis.
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