Writing the report or thesis

Once you have a good thesis plan you should be in a position to start writing effectively. Remember to break down the material into Sections, the Sections into Sub-sections and if necessary the Sub-sections into Sub-sub-sections, which will make it much easier for the reader to find particular pieces of information. Remember that very few people will ever want to 

As each background document is covered add it to a reference list in the proper format with all the authors names and initials, the year, volume, page and correct abbreviated journal name. It will save you so much time if you get this information detailed correctly from the outset. The format used for presenting references must be consistent and should conform to a recognized style (as required by a journal or your institute). 

When you are writing the first draft of the document do not attempt to finalize the numbering of references, schemes or structures, but you do need to identify them. One way to do this is to number the structures and references within sections, the items in the section you write first being 

Hi) Report the outcome of the experiment(s) and how you determined the outcome. This may be simple or it may involve a detailed discussion of your interpretation of complex spectral data. 

This is basically a cyclic six step process, step vi) often leads back into step i) for a new experiment or topic. There will almost certainly be significant portions of your work which did not proceed according to the original objectives. However, it is rare that there is nothing to report concerning these failed experiments. Indeed, it is often necessary to 

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