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Tim UW

Tim Brecht

Professor Emeritus

Davis Center, Room 3508
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

E-mail: brecht AT uwaterloo DOT ca

 

 

A Simple Approach to Thesis Writing

(Adapted from "The Guaranteed Mackworth Thesis Formula", by Alan Mackworth, revised by Tim Brecht, thanks to Ondrej Lhotak for an addition to the Background and Related Work section)

Abstract (<= 1 page)

Chapter 1: Introduction (~5-10 pages)

Chapter 2: Background / Related Work (~8-20 pages)

Chapter 3: Theory / Solution / Program / Problem (~15-30 pages)

Chapter 4: Implementation / Formalism (~15-30 pages)

Chapter 5: Results and Evaluation (~15-30 pages)

Chapter 6: Conclusions and Future Work (~5-10 pages)

Bibliography / References

Appendix

Writing Hints

Plagiarism

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