EssayChecklist
From Robin
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
- snowball search
- known conferences