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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

You can write a formal statement to acknowledge contributions and assistance provided by others in completion of the thesis. Its customary and good manners to say thank you.

The following and more have been seen in the acknowledgement of past theses: God, one’s advisor, one’s better half, parents, children, friends, classmates, lab-mates, lab technicians, lab assistants, favourable Prof,neighbours, physicians, exercise trainer(s), wiki, the maintenance guy, landlord, the school hockey team, secretary, department head

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

The headings of chapters should be in bold capital of font size 14.

The main goal of your introduction is to identify a problem that is worthy of investigation. It must also provide some ideas of your research goals and approach to research.Specific objectives can be introduced in the introduction chapter or they can be saved for later after you’ve provided additional background on the topic and state of the current research and its gaps.

The Introductory chapter often concludes with a summary of the organization of the thesis, including identification of the general content of specific chapters and appendices.

Ideally, chapter one defines the overall importance of the problem areas and provides an introduction into what you did, chapter two is why you did it in the context of what was previously known, three is how you did it, four is what you found and five is what it all means – putting the pieces together, (what’s your contribution to the research field).

It should be noted that the objectives of your research define the OUTCOME, i.e. what will be learned.They are not a statement of the approach or tasks that are required to meet these objectives.Some examples of reasonable research objectives:

• Determine the effect of Marangoni convection on mixing of molten glasses

• Predict the extent of mechanical degradation of polymers

These both define the resulting outcome (prediction, effect on…) so they are objectives. The related tasks or research approach could be:

• Solve a set of coupled non-linear PDEs…

• Perform experiments on…

These define the required steps; they do not define the outcome so they are NOT objectives.

This template uses the MS WORD STYLES extensively to help keep your work in the proper format.These paragraphs use the “thesis-body text” style that is set for Times New Roman, 12 point font with double spaced lines and extra spacing between paragraphs (no need for hard carriage returns).There are also styles for headers, equations, captions and bulleted lists that you can choose to use.See examples throughout this template.

CHAPTER II:LITERATURE REVIEW

The above is a suggested heading for this chapter. Individual authors may chose appropriate heading for the literature review chapter.
Literature review is an essential part of research methodology.

This chapter needs to provide sufficient fundamental background information about the subject to justify your objectives, provide rationale for your hypothesis (or research questions) and support you research methods, Review the pertinent literature related to the specific problem/hypothesis you are addressing.The literature review may cover:

• what are the fundamental science, math, engineering concepts related to your research (scope),

• what part of your research work has ever been investigated before and what has not, (some of this may have been included in the introduction)

• how does your research work relate to that done by others,

• how have others defined/measured/identified the key concepts of your research,

• what data sources have you used or have other researchers used in developing general explanations for observed variations in a behaviour or phenomenon in a concept in your thesis etc.

The literature review should not be limited to the above questions only.

Bullets can be single spaced.The above bullets are in the style “thesis-bullets”.When you type bulleted text, highlight the bulleted text and then select “thesis-bullets” from under the format, style menu to automatically change their formatting as above.

Section Header (heading 2)

The section header should have capital lead letter of each word.

CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY

The above is a suggested heading for this chapter. Individual authors may chose appropriate heading for the chapter to describe the research methodology.

In addition to the detailed methods you need to describe in this section, you need to provide specific objectives and an overview of your approach if they have not already been presented in the introductory chapters.The best place to put those items can vary among theses.Sometimes the background and literature review is really necessary to justify and substantiate the specific objectives and approach and, therefore, it is best to save those details for the beginning of this chapter.

These paragraphs are in “thesis-body text”.Other styles including captions, headers etc. can be used as presented in the previous chapter.Table 2 summarizes all of the styles that can be used with this template.

CHAPTER IV: PRELIMINARY RESULTS (If any)

The above is a suggested heading for this chapter. Individual authors may chose appropriate heading for the chapter to describe the research results.

You might have conducted preliminary or limited experiments/simulations/field surveys. If so, you may include such results, findings, discussion of results OR manuscripts. It is best to also reiterate information in your literature review to help substantiate the findings of your research. If result section is presented separately from a discussion section, the factual results of your research will be presented in this section.

Information may be presented in tables or figures (i.e. graphs, diagrams, maps, photographs, etc.); however, these illustrations should not stand alone. An explanation of the relevant findings must be included.

The results may be structured around the questions, hypotheses or themes. The discussion should draw together the findings from your research and relate it to the literature or current knowledge of the topic. It should make sense of, or explain, what you have found and discuss what your findings mean.

CHAPTER V: MORE HEADING

The author may add more chapters.

CHAPTER VI: SUMAMRY AND RESEARCH PLAN

You may summarise what you have done so far in Research Project A and describe the research plan for 301056 Research Project B.

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