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Language: Form and Function

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ROLL NO.
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SUBMITTED TO: DR. PRASANNANSHU

October 2010
Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Serial Chapter Page

No.
1 Acknowledgements
2 Introduction and Background
3 Methodology and Tools
4 Observations and Analysis
5 Results and Conclusion
6 References
7 Appendices

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Most thesis authors put in a page of thanks to those who have helped them in matters
scientific, and also indirectly. If any of your work is collaborative, you should make it
quite clear who did which sections.

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 INTRODUCTION

What is the topic and why is it important? State the problem(s) as simply as you can.
Especially in the introduction, do not overestimate the reader's familiarity with your
topic. The introduction should be interesting. This section may need several revisions to
make it logically linked.

Literature review
Where did the problem come from? What is already known about this problem? What
other methods have been tried to solve it?
When you start reading about a topic, you should open a spread sheet file, or at least a
word processor file, for your literature review. Of course you write down the title,
authors, year, volume and pages. But you also write a summary (anything from a couple
of sentences to a couple of pages, depending on the relevance). In other columns of the
spread sheet, you can add key words (your own and theirs) and comments about its
importance, relevance to you and its quality.

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 METHODOLOGY
Materials and Methods
Tell exactly what you have done.

Describe the tools that you propose to use in the study in detail, E.g. the questionnaires.

Questionnaire:
Mention that:

1. The data collected is only for academic purposes, and

2. Confidentiality of the data collected from the subjects shall be maintained

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 OBSERVATION TABLE
S.NO. SOURCE OBSERVATION COMMENTS

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 ANALYSIS & Discussion

Make sure that you have described the conditions which obtained for each set of results.
What was held constant? What were the other relevant parameters? Make sure too that
you have used appropriate statistical analyses.

Take care in plotting graphs.

In most cases, your results need discussion. What do they mean? How do they fit into the
existing body of knowledge? Are they consistent with current theories? Do they give new
insights? Do they suggest new theories or mechanisms?

Try to distance yourself from your usual perspective and look at your work. Does it have
any implications that do not relate to the questions that you set out to answer?

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Results & Conclusions

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 References

If you cite a journal article or book, the reader can go to a library and check that the cited
document and check whether or not it says what you say it did. A web site may
disappear, and it may have been updated or changed completely. So references to the web
are usually less satisfactory. Nevertheless, there are some very useful and authoritative
sources. It may be appropriate to cite web sites. (Be cautious, and don't overuse such
citations. In particular, don't use a web citation where you could reasonably use a "hard"
citation. You should give the URL and also the date you downloaded it. If there is a date
on the site itself (last updated on .....) you should include that, too.

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 Appendices
If there is material that should be in the thesis but which would break up the flow or bore
the reader unbearably, include it as an appendix. Some things which are typically
included in appendices are: data that is too large to be represented simply in the results
chapters, pictures or diagrams of results which are not important enough to keep in the
main text. Video or Voice recordings in the form of CDs, Questionnaires, and
background information used in the study e.g. BCI’s code of conduct for advocates.

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P.S. YOU MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING LINK USEFUL –
http://www.statpac.com/research-papers/research-proposal.htm#chapter-4

acknowledgements: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html 20-10-2010

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