Thesis Part B Written Report

The written report for Thesis Part B is often referred to simply as "The Thesis".

The Thesis should contain a complete description of your project, including expanding on all 6 tasks described in Section 2 of the Thesis Outline. You should have most of the introductory material (aims, literature review) from the Thesis A written report, although some aspects may have changed during Thesis B, so be prepared for some re-writing of the material. It should also report on the results of your work. In the case of a research-oriented topic, you should describe what you discovered/proved and provide solid arguments and evidence as to why we should believe your results. In the case of a development-oriented topic, you should document the development process (requirements, specification, design, implementation and evaluation/testing) of your system. There is no need to submit source code listings as part of the Thesis; however, you should make the source code available to your supervisor/assessor (create a tar/zip of the source code tree and submit it as an attachment to the Thesis). 

The Thesis must:

• include a title page headed:

  THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
  SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  and followed by
  • Title of Thesis
  • Name of Author/s
  • Degree for which thesis is submitted
  • Submission Date (month and year)
  • Supervisor/s: (followed by name)
  • Assessor/s: (followed by name)
• include a comprehensive bibliography (comprehensive in the sense that all work by other people that is mentioned in the thesis appears, and also comprehensive in the sense each entry is complete i.e. would enable someone to locate a copy of the cited work)
• include a table of contents
• include a one-paragraph Abstract which summarises the major results of the work
• be formatted for an A4 page with 2cm margins, 12-point font size, and 1.5 spacing
• be in PDF format that is readable with Acrobat (acroread) on the CSE workstations (other formats such as Word, RTF or LateX are not acceptable)
• have all pages numbered, with the main body of the Thesis being numbered from beginning to end; other sections of the Thesis must either be included in this numbering or given their own logical numbering system.

Note: The author of the Thesis is responsible for proof-reading the draft material and having corrections made as necessary, before final submission.

Assessment Criteria:

The final Thesis Report will be assessed on the following criteria:

• a clear definition of the topic and the aim of the work
• analysis of the literature: organisation, comprehensiveness, citations and bibliography
• quality of the analytical work and the results (for research theses)
• quality of the software development process and final product (for development theses)
• presentation (i.e. formatting and English expression).