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how-to-write-a-masters-thesis [2022/01/06 12:14]
strakova [Referencing, Plagiarism and These Things (Don't Skip Me!)] |
how-to-write-a-masters-thesis [2022/01/07 12:06]
strakova [Referencing, Plagiarism and These Things (Don't Skip Me!)] |
| ===== NLP Master's Thesis from Enrollment to Defense ===== | ===== NLP Master's Thesis from Enrollment to Defense ===== |
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| This tutorial could also be called ''"things I wish I had known when I was writing my diploma thesis"''. This guideline is intended to ease writing your master's thesis (and hopefully, to produce better theses and successful defenses, as a result) and what better way is there than provide you with a spectrum of information I gained being on both sides of the trench. I'm going to navigate you through the process of your master's thesis assignment, writing and defense. The guideline is mostly fitted to a typical experimental NLP master's thesis but I'm sure you can tweak it to other situation once you get the general idea. | This tutorial could also be called ''"things I wish I had known when I was writing my diploma thesis"''. This guideline is intended to ease writing your master's thesis (and hopefully, to produce better theses and successful defenses, as a result) and what better way is there than provide you with a spectrum of information I gained being on both sides of the trench. I'm going to navigate you through the process of your master's thesis assignment, writing and defense. The guideline is mostly fitted to a typical experimental NLP master's thesis (at [[https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/|ÚFAL]]) but I'm sure you can tweak it to other situation once you get the general idea. |
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| I don't think I can emphasize enough: start EARLY. Seriously. You will make your life much easier if you start programming, measuring and writing (that especially!) in good time. Most opponents can recognize hasty writing hurriedly finished over the last week before deadline. As for the question ''what is the minimum time in which I can write a thesis'', let's pretend I never heard the question. | I don't think I can emphasize enough: start EARLY. Seriously. You will make your life much easier if you start programming, measuring and writing (that especially!) in good time. Most opponents can recognize hasty writing hurriedly finished over the last week before deadline. As for the question ''what is the minimum time in which I can write a thesis'', let's pretend I never heard the question. |
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| The exact dates of everything that happens at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, such as beginnings and ends of semesters, deadlines for courses and exams enrollments, deadlines for theses submissions and theses exams, is strictly bound by an official [[https://www.mff.cuni.cz/en/students/academic-calendar/|Academic Calendar]] of the faculty. Look out for the exact deadlines of the required actions in the current version. | The exact dates of everything that happens at the [[https://www.mff.cuni.cz/|Faculty of Mathematics and Physics]], such as beginnings and ends of semesters, deadlines for courses and exams enrollments, deadlines for theses submissions and theses exams, is strictly bound by an official [[https://www.mff.cuni.cz/en/students/academic-calendar/|Academic Calendar]] of the faculty. Look out for the exact deadlines of the required actions in the current version. |
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| With that in mind, let's say that a typical master's curriculum takes two academic years (four semesters). Master's thesis writing is officially a three-semester course, consisting of three subsequent (!) semesters each of which you must subscribe to in the [[https://is.mff.cuni.cz/|Study Information System (SIS)]], in the appointed deadline. | With that in mind, let's say that a typical master's curriculum takes two academic years (four semesters). Master's thesis writing is officially a three-semester course, consisting of three subsequent (!) semesters each of which you must subscribe to in the [[https://is.mff.cuni.cz/|Study Information System (SIS)]], in the appointed deadline. |
| Less obvious and not always necessary references may be required by: | Less obvious and not always necessary references may be required by: |
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| - sentences like ''It is (generally) considered that ...'', ''It is (generally) thought that ...'' are always tricky and will attract ttention. By whom it is considered? Ideally they would be supported by references to publications. | * statements like ''"It is (generally) considered that ..."'', ''"It is (generally) thought that ..."'' are tricky. By whom it is considered? Ideally they would be supported by references to publications. |
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| | In scientific writing, there is a rigid, accustomed way of proper referencing. TODO write about reference norms. |
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| ===== Submitting the Thesis ==== | ===== Submitting the Thesis ==== |
