Planning a report or thesis

Planning is the key to writing a good report or thesis. From the outset you should aim to construct the document so that it has a logical structure and is easy to follow. The mark of a good report is that it will be a useful document for someone less knowledgeable than yourself, who may for 

Having reviewed your own work, you should be in a good position to appreciate what background material should be covered in the introduction. The nature of the introduction will depend on the type of project. For example if the aim of the project was to synthesize a natural product it would be appropriate to report the origin of the compound, its structure determination, properties, biosynthesis (if known), and then review any other synthetic approaches that have been reported. Your own synthetic strategy could then be explained as a lead-in to your discussion section. 

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