EssayChecklist

From Robin

Contents 1 Contents (not necessarily structured this way) 2 Style 3 Purposes 4 Searching for literature

Contents (not necessarily structured this way)

• Short description of the problem / challenge for your thesis
• Description of State-of-the-art research / technology on the subject. Should include references to several papers
• Background theory, describing techniques relevant for the project

Style

• • Formal text, scientific style
  • Could fit into the thesis document later
  • At least 10 pages
  • Preferably 20+ references

Purposes

• Head start on writing
• Discovering what's out there already (so you can avoid doing the same as someone else)
• Inspiration
• Good opportunity to start up with latex and bibtex, and build up a reference database

Searching for literature

• google scholar
• university library for getting access to papers
• search options
  • authors
    • google scholar pages
  • snowball search
    • back and forth in time - see references of a paper, or cites in google scholar
  • known conferences
    • easiest to browse through publisher's pages
  • known journals