This paper serves as a guide for the students admitted to a course, quali ed as a Master's Course, at Stockholm University, department of Computer and Systems Sciences. The goal of the course is to train the students in scienti c work and scienti c writing, intended to result in a Master's thesis. This paper brie y describes the di erent choices the students can make, in uencing their work with...

Graduate thesis is an important form to assess students’ comprehensive ability. But the questionnaires carried among 36 supervisors and 167 students in the School of Foreign Languages of University of Jinan showed that a number of problems existed in the process and result of thesis writing. The discrepancies in teachers’ and students’ beliefs and the problems in the graduate thesis writing cou...

The book is subdivided into three main sections: a basic principles section (chapters 1 to 5), the main sections of a scientific thesis (chapters 6 to 11), and an exemplary thesis (chapter 12). The first chapter provides general information on writing management, such as writing process phases, different writing types according to Scheuermann (2013), writing conditions on site, time and atmosph...

This paper discusses some of the challenges encountered whilst researching and writing a thesis that explores individual understandings of "relevance" and "topic." It is based upon a discussion paper and presentation prepared as part of the Doctoral Workshop held during the ISIC 2000 Conference in Borås, Sweden. The focus of this paper is the doing of qualitative research. To provide a framewor...