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Thesis Writing Guðný Ragna Jónsdóttir

Overview n n Starting References Time traps Results

Starting n n n Formalize Motivation Formalize Contribution Read Thesis’s ¨ n http: //www. ru. is/? Page. ID=7100 Introduction ¨ Difference between Introduction in a paper and in a thesis

Starting n Latex ¨ ¨ ¨ Use latex from the start Start a project from the RU thesis template Use latex to write thoughts / memos Outline with Table of Contents Find bib items online

Latex implementation. tex

Focus n Focus on contribution and results ¨ n How does the story end? Iterative writing ¨ ¨ Writing implementation chapter is easy Writing intro and related work is hard

References n Downloaded 100+ Reference 40+ n Reading papers n ¨ ¨ Underlining Annotated bibliography

References n Finding papers ¨ ¨ n Phrases to look for Google is not perfect References of references Inter-library loans Saving papers ¨ Organization n Renaming downloaded pdfs

Time traps - project n Programming ¨ ¨ n 80/20 Optimizations Tweaking 3 rd party software Monitoring saves time ¨ ¨ Matlab JFree. Graph

Monitoring

Time traps - thesis n Linear Representation ¨ “Chicken and the egg” problems n n References ¨ n Use Latex TOC for chapter/section level Reading again and again Gathering data ¨ Running again and again

Time traps

Results n Gathering data ¨ ¨ ¨ n Running the system Logging Human subjects Analyzing data ¨ ¨ Compare to what – motivation, contribution Statistics