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This document outlines the structure and key components of a master's thesis, including an introduction, literature review, methods, experiments and results, discussion and conclusions, and references. The introduction should define the research problem and objectives. The literature review critically analyzes previous work. The methods chapter describes how the research was conducted. Experiments and results present the findings. Discussion and conclusions summarize the study, compare results to prior work, and suggest future research directions.

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Write A Master Thesis

This document outlines the structure and key components of a master's thesis, including an introduction, literature review, methods, experiments and results, discussion and conclusions, and references. The introduction should define the research problem and objectives. The literature review critically analyzes previous work. The methods chapter describes how the research was conducted. Experiments and results present the findings. Discussion and conclusions summarize the study, compare results to prior work, and suggest future research directions.

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WRITE A MASTER THESIS

Master thesis structure

1. Title
2. Abstract
3. Acknowledgement
4. List of chapters and sections
5. Introduction
6. Related work
7. Methods
8. Experiments & Results
9. Conclusions
10. References
Thesis title
• Title telling as precise as possible what the thesis is

about. Remember that people search for key words, so


the key words that you think describe your research
should appear in the title.

• Title should be short, concise, and easy to understand

and remember
Abstract

One page presenting


• The research problem

• Motivation

• The main results

• Conclusion and how the thesis advances the field.


Acknowledgement
Give thanks to those who have helped you
Table of contents

List of chapters and sections:


1. Title
2. Abstract 1
3. Introduction 5
4. Related work 10
5. Methods 15
6. Experiments & Results 25
7. Discussion & Conclusions 50
8. References
Chapter 1. Introduction

• First page
• The area of research (e.g. implementation of information systems)
• The most relevant previous findings in this area
• Your research problem and why this is worthwhile studying
• The objective of the thesis: how far you hope to advance knowledge in the field
• Target group

To whom are you writing, what do you assume that the reader know?
• Personal motivation

Why did you choose this topic?


• Research method in brief

How will you find out?


• Structure of the thesis

A paragraph about each chapter. What is the main contribution of the chapter
How do they relate?
Chapter 2. Related literature and theoretical focus

• A survey of the literature (journals, conferences, book chapters) on

the areas that are relevant to your research question. One section
per area.

• The chapter should conclude with a summary of the previous

research results that you want to develop further or challenge. The


summary could be presented in a model, a list of issues, etc. Each
issue could be a chapter in the presentation of results. They should
definitely be discussed in the discussion / conclusion of the thesis.
Chapter 3. Methods

• Research approaches by which you will investigate the

world.

• Describe detailed report of how you actually carried out

your researches.

• Theoretical comparisons among previous and proposed

methods.
Experiments and Results

• Design and describe experiments

• Describe results obtained from experiments

• Discussions of the findings can be included in this

chapter.
• The issues from the theory chapter (chapter 2)

should be discussed here.


Last chapter: Discussions and Conclusions

• Summary of the problem, the main findings and the discussion.

Structured according to the issues in chapter 2.


• Comparison with the literature presented in chapter 2: how do

your results fill in, advance or contradict previously reported


research?
• What are the implications of your research for people working

in the field that you have studies?


• In which direction should further research go?
References

• A complete list of written documents you have referred to

in the report.
• All documents in the references must be cited in the

thesis.
• Quotations could be used if needed.
Citing by numbers
Citing by numbers
References are enumerated in the order of appearances
Citing by (author name, year)
Citing by (author name, year)
References are sorted in alphabets
Tables and Figures

• Captions must be informative

• All tables and figures must be numerated automatically

• All tables and figures must be described and discussed in

the thesis.

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