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Thesis Project: a guide for students in computer science and information systems

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Contents:

Part I Concepts
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation and Purpose of the Book
1.2 Purposes of Thesis Projects
1.3 Actors in the Project
1.4 Process
1.5 Assessment Criteria
1.6 Reading Guidelines

2 Computer Science and Information Systems Research Projects
2.1 The Landscape of CS and IS
2.2 What is Research?
2.3 Research Methods
2.4 Linkage Between Research and Thesis Projects

3 Actors Involved, their Roles and Relationships
3.1 The Student
3.2 The Supervisor
3.3 The Examiner

Part II Process
4 The Process - An Overview

5 Developing your Project Proposal
5.1 Choosing a Subject Area
5.2 Choose Problem to Focus on Within the Subject Area
5.3 Assure Quality of Initial Ideas
5.4 Write and Submit a Project Proposal
5.5 Quality Control of Project Proposal
5.6 Matching Supervisors and Students

6 References and Citations
6.1 Appropriate References
6.2 Citations
6.3 Improve your Learning (and Grade)

7 Developing your Aim
7.1 Meetings with Your Supervisor
7.2 Time Plan
7.3 Activities to Perform While Developing the Aim

8 Developing your Objectives and Choosing Methods
8.1 Important Concepts
8.2 Addressing Validity and Reliability
8.3 Methods
8.4 An Illustrative Analogy
8.5 A Four-Step Process

9 Following the Objectives

10 Presenting and Analysing your Data
10.1 Presenting Non-Numerical Data
10.2 Presenting Numerical Data
10.3 Analyse Your Data
10.4 What is a Good Result?

11 Drawing your Conclusions and Identifying Future Work
11.1 Summarising the Results
11.2 Putting the Results into Context
11.3 Evaluating the Process
11.4 Identifying Future Work

12 Presenting and Defending your Work Orally
12.1 O ral Presentation
12.2 Acting as Opponent
12.3 Prepare the Final Version of your Report

Part III Supplements
13 Information-Seeking and Use
13.1 Information Literacy for Computer Science
13.2 Information Searching, Seeking, and Behaviour
13.3 A Session with INSPEC
13.4 The Information Seeking-Process
13.5 Two Basic Strategies for Information Seeking

14 The Report
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Who is the Report for?
14.3 Requirements of the Report
14.4 Structure of the Report
14.5 Style of the Report
14.6 Managing References

15 Examination
15.1 The Examiner's Roles
15.2 WhattoExamine

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Series Title

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Call Number

000 BER t

Publisher

London : Springer., 2008

Collation

xiii, 158 hlm.; ilus.; 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781848000087

Classification

000

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Edition

Second Edition

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Statement of Responsibility

Mikael Berndtsson, et al.

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