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TDDD89 Scientific Method

Final Thesis Plan Submission (UPG1)


Final Thesis Plan Submission (UPG1)

Purpose

The final extended thesis plan, to be submitted by 11 january 2024 23:59 (UPG1), will be a revised, expanded and polished version of your extended thesis plan as of after Seminar 5, following the requirements below. It will be reviewed by your seminar leader according to the Grading Rubric.

Automatic Registration

If you have passed at least 3 seminars, we will sign you up in Webreg for UPG1. Otherwise the course is failed and you are welcome again next year.

Requirements

Contents: The final submission inherits all requirements on extended thesis plan contents from Seminar 2 (Introduction), Seminar 3 (Background and Related Work) and Seminar 5 (Project Plan).
For example, the Related Work section should include at least four references to related peer-reviewed publications and summarize and discuss them properly.

Length: The final thesis plan is expected to have at least 10 pages in total:

  • 2-3 pages Introduction
  • 3-5 pages Background and Related Work (discussing at least 4 related works)
  • 2-3 pages Project Plan (Time plan, Milestones, Risk analysis)
  • 1-2 pages References (incl. at least 4 peer-reviewed papers)
The given page counts refer to the IDA Master Thesis LaTeX template as used in the course.
(Clarification: Partially used pages do fully count. Because the template begins each chapter on a new page and your document has 3 or 4 chapters plus references, this does not necessarily mean writing so much text at all in order to come up to at least 10 pages in total.)

Quality: At least Yellow level in each of the categories Introduction, Theory (= Background + Related Work), Organization, Plan/Method, and Language/form of the Grading Rubric.

Preparations

First, revise your thesis plan according to the feedback that you received from your group and your seminar leader at Seminars 2, 3 and 5, as well as from Shelley about the use of academic English.

Remove unused chapters from the thesis template and any template placeholder text as it only distracts and would generate hits in URKUND.

Add further references to background, relevant method papers, and to related work as appropriate.

Critically review and revise your thesis plan using the Grading Rubric before submitting.

Submit.

Deadline

11 january 2024 23:59.

Submission

Submit via the Lisam submission link for UPG1.
All submitted thesis plans will be run through URKUND/Ouriginal. As stated earlier, the use of automated text generation tools is forbidden.

You will need to form "spontaneous groups" when you submit, and include your partner in your group. That way, both will receive information about your submission.

If you miss the deadline, there are two more submission opportunities in the two re-exam periods for HT2/2023 in 2024, see the Lisam submission link for UPG1 for the deadlines.
We do not accept submissions by email, unless explicitly permitted.

Feedback

If your final extended thesis plan is approved for UPG1, it will be marked as passed in webreg for UPG1, and eventually reported to Ladok.

If it is failed, you can try again at a later submission opportunity, see the Lisam submission link for UPG1 for the deadlines. Update the revision notes in the appendix to show what you improved since last time.

If complementations are required, you will receive an email with a deadline for the revision from your seminar leader. Update the revision notes in the appendix to show what you improved since last time.


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Last updated: 2023-12-11