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Both sides previous revision Previous revision 2022/01/07 12:27 strakova [Conclusions] 2022/01/07 11:59 strakova [Conclusions] XKCD comics2021/12/16 10:35 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/16 10:30 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:20 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:59 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:57 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:57 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:55 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:30 strakova [Introduction] thesis motivation2021/12/13 12:59 strakova [Dedication] 2021/12/13 12:58 strakova [Front Pages] 2021/12/13 12:58 strakova [The Title Page] 2021/12/13 12:57 strakova [Dedication] 2021/12/13 12:56 strakova [The Title Page] 2021/12/13 12:55 strakova [How to Write a Master's Thesis: The Content] 2021/12/13 10:20 strakova [Related Work] 2021/12/13 09:58 strakova change header levels2021/12/13 09:55 strakova move content from main page2021/12/13 09:54 strakova created Go		2022/01/07 12:27 strakova [Conclusions] 2022/01/07 11:59 strakova [Conclusions] XKCD comics2021/12/16 10:35 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/16 10:30 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:48 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 11:20 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:59 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:57 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:57 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:55 strakova [Introduction] 2021/12/15 10:30 strakova [Introduction] thesis motivation2021/12/13 12:59 strakova [Dedication] 2021/12/13 12:58 strakova [Front Pages] 2021/12/13 12:58 strakova [The Title Page] 2021/12/13 12:57 strakova [Dedication] 2021/12/13 12:56 strakova [The Title Page] 2021/12/13 12:55 strakova [How to Write a Master's Thesis: The Content] 2021/12/13 10:20 strakova [Related Work] 2021/12/13 09:58 strakova change header levels2021/12/13 09:55 strakova move content from main page2021/12/13 09:54 strakova created Go Next revision Both sides next revision
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	The Introduction usually starts with a broader introduction of the thesis topic. The purpose of the first paragraphs is to put your thesis topic in greater context, explaining why the task is important, presenting a motivation for your thesis. From the top of my head, an example of introduction opinion mining: ''"Every day, people freely express their opinions on social media. Understanding these opinions is important, but increasingly more difficult as there is more and more data. Opinion mining is a field of natural language processing (NLP), which ... (description of the task)..."''. Generally, you are striving for a ''"greater-good-for-humanity"'' motivation, or ''"interesting-scientific-question"'' motivation, as opposed to ''"my-supervisor-suggested-the-topic"'' or ''"it-seemed-easy-enough"''. Beware of too personal a motivation, such as ''"I have been doing this topic for years, so it seemed logical to continue in it."'' or ''"I do this for a living, so I might as well make a thesis out of it."''.		The Introduction usually starts with a broader introduction of the thesis topic. The purpose of the first paragraphs is to put your thesis topic in greater context, explaining why the task is important, presenting a motivation for your thesis. From the top of my head, an example of introduction opinion mining: ''"Every day, people freely express their opinions on social media. Understanding these opinions is important, but increasingly more difficult as there is more and more data. Opinion mining is a field of natural language processing (NLP), which ... (description of the task)..."''. Generally, you are striving for a ''"greater-good-for-humanity"'' motivation, or ''"interesting-scientific-question"'' motivation, as opposed to ''"my-supervisor-suggested-the-topic"'' or ''"it-seemed-easy-enough"''. Beware of too personal a motivation, such as ''"I have been doing this topic for years, so it seemed logical to continue in it."'' or ''"I do this for a living, so I might as well make a thesis out of it."''.
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		+	A good experimental/scientific thesis has what I call ''"a story"''. A story is a consistent narrative which is told throughout the entire writing, an umbrella for all your thoughts, a red line running throughout the work. A story is opened in Introduction and it is usually a scientific question or an unsolved problem. You don't just simply write ''"We added BERT to something because we felt like doing it/my supervisor told me to do it/it helps with something else/it was easy enough/there is a library for it."'' Instead, you present a hypothesis in Introduction, your thesis then validates it and you conclude so in Conclusion.
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		+	For some theses it may feel a little forced or downright impossible to make up a story, for example if you are writing what is a basically an application user manual. Anyways, it is always good to hold a greater picture of your writing from the Introduction to the Conclusion before you actually start writing.
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