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PrefaceThis material is originally prepared for IMPIT-students in the Departmentof Computer Science, University of Joensuu, to help them when they writetheir master’s thesis in English. Since all students are foreigners, quite muchemphasis is put into English grammar, but all examples are taken from thecomputer science context. Another emphasis is the use of L A TEX, whichsuits especially well for writing computer science texts containing severalequations, algorithms, tables, and figures. In addition, the literature sourcesand references can be easily managed with bibtex.The style advice are based on existing literature on scientific writing (e.g.[1, 2, 4, 3]), but once again the instructions have been applied to the currentcustoms in the computer science filed.I wish that the result is useful for the reader!In Joensuu, 6th Sep 2006,Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen
Contents1 Introduction 11.1 Goal 1: How to write scientific text is cs? . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.1 Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.3 Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.4 Writing tree t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1.5 Properties of a good tree t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Goal 2: How to write English? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 Goal 3: How to write a master’s thesis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 Scientific writing style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4.1 Exact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4.2 Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4.3 Compact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4.4 Smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4.5 Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Searching, reading, and referring literature 112.1 Need for references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.2 Source types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.3 Collecting literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.4 Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.5 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.5.1 Referring in the text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.5.2 Reference notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.5.3 Reference list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.5.4 References in latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.6 Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.7 Your own opinions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
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4.4. ARTICLES 47ExercisesTask 1: Ad
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4.4. ARTICLES 49• weakness• use
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4.5. PRONOUNS 514.5.4 Many vs. seve
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4.6. ADJECTIVES 53Adjective type Co
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4.7. ADVERBS 552. in the end, when
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4.8. PARALLEL STRUCTURES 57• far,
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4.9. PREPOSITIONS 65opportunity of/
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Chapter 5Writing master’s thesis5
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5.1. PARTS OF THE MASTER’S THESIS
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6.5. WRITING REFERENCES 99Definitio
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6.7. DRAWING FIGURES 101Figure 6.1:
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Bibliography[1] Barrass, R.: Scient
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