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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Overview
• 1.1 Preliminaries
• 1.2 Creating a Plan for Your Thesis or Dissertation
• 1.3 Overview of this Book
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 2 Getting Organised
• 2.1 Organise Yourself
• 2.2 Organise Your Information
• 2.3 Sources of Information
• 2.4 Copyright
• 2.5 Your Friendly Computer
• 2.6 Word Processing
• 2.7 Other Useful Software Packages
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 3 Your References or Bibliography
• 3.1 References and Citations
• 3.2 Using References
• 3.3 Collect and Store Your References from Day One of Your Project
• 3.4 The Final Text
• 3.5 Formats for Citations and References
• 3.6 How to Write the Full-Length Reference
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 4 Planning and Writing Your Literature Review
• 4.1 Read Around Your Subject from Day One
• 4.2 Keep Notes from Your Reading
• 4.3 Planning Your Literature Review
• 4.4 Writing Your Literature Review
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 5 Planning and Writing Your Materials and Methods/Experimental Techniques
• 5.1 Planning Materials and Methods/Experimental Techniques
• 5.2 Writing the Methods Section
• 5.3 Writing the Materials Section
• 5.4 Writing Conventions
• 5.5 What to Include
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 6 Planning and Writing Your Results
• 6.1 Planning Your Results Chapter
• 6.2 Which Results to Include
• 6.3 The Order in Which to Present Your Results
• 6.4 How Many Results Chapters, What Titles and in Which Order?
• 6.5 Writing Your Results Chapter
• 6.6 Writing Style
• 6.7 Figures, Tables and Appendices
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 7 Planning and Writing Your Discussion and Conclusion
• 7.1 Planning the Discussion
• 7.2 Writing Your Discussion
• 7.3 Writing the Conclusion
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 8 Planning and Writing Your Introduction
• 8.1 Planning the Introduction
• 8.2 The Beginning
• 8.3 The Middle
• 8.4 The End
• 8.5 Theory Section
• 8.6 Writing Your Introduction
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 9 Deciding on Your Title and Writing Your Abstract
• 9.1 The Title of Your Thesis or Dissertation
• 9.2 The Abstract of Your Thesis or Dissertation
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 10 The Other Bits
• 10.1 Title Page
• 10.2 Abstract
• 10.3 Acknowledgements/Dedication
• 10.4 Table of Contents
• 10.5 Lists of Figures and Tables
• 10.6 List of Abbreviations
• 10.7 Glossary
• 10.8 Appendices
• 10.9 Published Papers
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 11 Other People’s Work
• 11.1 Being Part of a Team
• 11.2 Plagiarism
• 11.3 Copyright
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 12 Layout
• 12.1 Fonts and Line Spacing
• 12.2 Layout of Text on the Page
• 12.3 Titles and Headings
• 12.4 Additional Features
• 12.5 Mathematical Equations
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 13 Numbers, Errors and Statistics
• 13.1 Writing Numbers and Quantities
• 13.2 Errors and Uncertainties
• 13.3 Statistics
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 14 Figures and Tables
• 14.1 Basic Principles
• 14.2 Figures: Illustrations
• 14.3 Annotating Figures
• 14.4 Figures: Graphs
• 14.5 Tables
• 14.6 Inserting Figures and Tables into a Thesis or Dissertation
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 15 Proofreading, Printing, Binding and Submission
• 15.1 Getting Ready
• 15.2 Proofreading
• 15.3 Printing Your Dissertation or Thesis
• 15.4 Submitting Your Thesis
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 16 The Viva and Thereafter or ‘And you Thought it was All Over …’
• 16.1 Oral Examinations
• 16.2 Preparing for Your Viva
• 16.3 The Day of the Viva
• 16.4 After the Viva
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 17 Supervision
• 17.1 Roles and Responsibilities
• 17.2 Reviewing Drafts of Your Thesis or Dissertation
• 17.3 Problems with Supervisors
• 17.4 Changing Supervisor
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Chapter 18 The Use of English in Scientific Writing
• 18.1 Scientific Writing Style
• 18.2 Important Conventions for Writing a Scientific Document
• 18.3 The Use of English in a Scientific Thesis or Dissertation
• 18.4 Common Problems with Writing
• 18.5 Punctuation
• 18.6 Common Errors with Punctuation
• Common Mistakes
• Key Points
• Appendices
• Appendix 1: Easily Confused Words
• Appendix 2: Prefixes and Suffixes
• Appendix 3: Wordy Words and Phrases
• Appendix 4: Words that Cause Vagueness
• Appendix 5: Latin Words and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6: The Greek Alphabet
• Appendix 7: SI Units
• Index