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Chapter 5<strong>Writing</strong> master’s thesis5.1 Parts of the master’s thesisSee latex template on http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/pages/whamalai/sciwri/thesis.tex5.1.1 Abstract• Tells compactly the research problem, methods and results.• At most 1 page, no literature references.• In the end ACM classes + possibly key words.5.1.2 IntroductionTypically 4-7 pages.The introduction should define the problem clearly and give suffiecient backgroundin<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong> the following chapters. However, no details, yet!• What is the purpose of the research? Main research questions?• What is the scope? Indicate explicitely all limitations and restrictingassumptions!• Why the topic is important or interesting?• What methods are used?85