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Thesis Template

On the following page you can find the template (Word) for the frontpage and abstract for the degree projects at UU. Download the template (under “During the project”) and fill it in using the information:

Your Supervisor is Please fill in
Your Reviewer is Please fill in
Your Examiner is please fill in

Skip “Publishing”.
Change the text ”Place of Publication eg Uppsala/Visby” to ”Uppsala”.

Next, make sure your own report is a pdf. When you have both documents (front page/abstract and report) you shall merge them into one pdf. Open up the report and add the front page and abstract under the document menu in Adobe Acrobat. Check the page numbers, and also check the right-hand side and left-hand side pages so that the front page, the abstract and the content page (first) is on the right-hand side. Add blank pages as left-hand pages if necessary. The final PDF should have Title page, blank page, Abstract page, blank page, and then the rest of the report.

For LaTeX templates, you can use the template provided by Tobias Wrigstad, Head of Education here.

Evaluation criteria

In the ongoing development of the thesis course, we have introduced evaluation criteria that the reviewer should apply to your report. Contact your Program Coordinator for good examples applicable to your program. Previous examples include:

How to write a report

  • Here is a document that contains advice for Master's thesis report.
  • A document describing the writing process.
  • Here is a link for resources for academic writing.
  • Here is a link to The Language Workshop that offers academic language support for all students.
  • Here is a link to the list of archived reports.

General recommendations

  • The written report is very important. Consider that your report will be used as a personal merit.
  • Start the writing process early. Don't leave it til the end, but do it continuously. It takes 1-2 months to write a good report.
  • Remember that good language is important. The quality of the language is a learning outcome in the course so your report could be rejected due to bad language. Use the resources available at the university including the Language Workshop, library services, and additional online tools such as Grammarly.
  • The use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Model (LLM) Applications to write your report is left to the discretion of the Program Coordinator/Examiner. Consult them first before you use them.
  • The student should produce a digital report in PDF format. It should be sent to exjobb.it.uu.se
  • There are no rules about the size of a report, but a report shorter than 15 pages for 15hp-project or below 30 pages for a 30hp-project is probably incomplete. A report of 80 pages or more probably contains too much code or similar. In other words, a normal report is around 40 pages. Consult your Program Coordinator/Examiner if you have further questions.

Advice on literature

  • The thesis should be based on scientific ground, therefore the requirements for the references are high. Try to relate to scientific reports and books. One should refer to scientific literature, not only to handbooks, internal reports and course literature. This is particularly valid for theses at D- and E-level.
  • For each literature reference, it should be clear what it contains and why it is relevant. The term reference means that it is something you refer to in the text. General references can be collected in the background section or in the related work section.
  • Facts that you use must have a proper reference. This is true even if you don't do a direct citation, just summarizing what others have written.
  • Preferably you should refer to published texts. If you find a text on the web you should try to find a more permanent reference. Sometimes web references are unavoidable. When referring to the web, give title and web address. Also, give the date when you accessed to resource.
  • For a web reference, criticism of the sources is very important. Remember that anyone can claim anything on a web page.

Publishing

  • The report is only stored digitally. No printed copies are produced. If you need a printed copy you can print one at your own cost.
Updated  2024-03-05 16:42:00 by Bedour Alshaigy.