Thesis Writing Guðný Ragna Jónsdóttir

Overview Starting References Time traps Results

Starting Formalize Motivation Formalize Contribution Read Thesis’s  Introduction  Difference between Introduction in a paper and in a thesis

Starting Latex  Use latex from the start  Start a project from the RU thesis template  Use latex to write thoughts / memos  Outline with Table of Contents  Find bib items online

Latex implementation.tex

Focus Focus on contribution and results  How does the story end? Iterative writing  Writing implementation chapter is easy  Writing intro and related work is hard

References Downloaded 100+ Reference 40+ Reading papers  Underlining  Annotated bibliography

References Finding papers  Phrases to look for  Google is not perfect  References of references  Inter-library loans Saving papers  Organization Renaming downloaded pdfs

Time traps - project Programming  80/20  Optimizations  Tweaking  3rd party software Monitoring saves time  Matlab  JFreeGraph

Monitoring

Time traps - thesis Linear Representation  “Chicken and the egg” problems Use Latex TOC for chapter/section level References  Reading again and again Gathering data  Running again and again

Time traps

Results Gathering data  Running the system  Logging  Human subjects Analyzing data  Compare to what – motivation, contribution  Statistics