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Writing the thesis

Important Notes for structuring the thesis:

  • A normal bachelor-thesis is between 40 and 60 pages on avarage. What the exect requirements are is dependant up on the examiner and on the topic that was choosen.

Writing Goals

Chapter Pages
Introduction 2
Fundamentals 6
Capabilities 4
System Design 12
Implementation 8
Evaluation 4
Conclusion 2
Total 38

Tell a story

Taken from

MOST IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY: First outline and then fill in the gaps. "Iterate, Iterate, Iterate"

The 3 steps to follow:

  1. Motivation - Why?
    • Real World Applications
    • Earlier results and their weaknesses
      • Motivation examples
  2. Problem Description - What?
    • Requirements
    • Specification of the desirable functionality a user interface should have
    • Specification of the desirable functionality the application should have
  3. Approach - How?
    • Architecture of the system I am Building
    • Description of the technologies (languages, services, libraries) used
    • Last: Implementation Details

More:

  • Anyone with a degree comparable degree should be able to read the thesis
  • Keep sentences as simple and as easily to understand as possible.
  • Active tense, not passive tense

Further reading