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First Steps in an Epic Journey | p. 1 |
The Research Project | p. 1 |
Which Direction to Take? | p. 2 |
Lecturer/Supervisor Perceptions and Misconceptions | p. 4 |
Research Groups: Large and Small | p. 6 |
What Resources are Available? | p. 7 |
Project Title List - The Supervisor's Sales Pitch | p. 9 |
Interviewing YOUR Team | p. 11 |
Meeting Checklist | p. 14 |
Ranking the Projects | p. 16 |
Project Allocation | p. 17 |
Managing the Project | p. 18 |
Before You Do Anything! | p. 18 |
First Steps | p. 21 |
Arrange Your First Project Meeting | p. 23 |
Project Objectives and Milestones | p. 24 |
Establish a Reporting Procedure | p. 27 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 27 |
Searching the Literature | p. 29 |
What is a Literature Review? | p. 29 |
Beginning the Search | p. 31 |
Textbooks | p. 32 |
Journals | p. 32 |
Web of Science | p. 34 |
Extracting the Article from the WOK/WOS System | p. 38 |
Patents | p. 40 |
Web Pages and Wikipedia | p. 40 |
Finding a Balance | p. 42 |
Forensic Reference Hunting | p. 43 |
Compiling the Literature Review | p. 45 |
The First Page | p. 46 |
Project Background | p. 48 |
The Literature Review | p. 49 |
How to Avoid Plagiarising Other People's Work | p. 53 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 55 |
Referencing Your Work | p. 56 |
Reference Styles | p. 56 |
The Harvard Reference System | p. 57 |
Journals and Newspaper Articles | p. 58 |
Books | p. 60 |
Electronic Publications | p. 61 |
Reference Order and Presentation Style | p. 64 |
The Numeric System | p. 65 |
Numeric Style Bibliographies | p. 65 |
Vancouver Bibliography Format | p. 67 |
Harvard vs. Numeric | p. 69 |
Automatic Referencing Software | p. 69 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 71 |
Starting the Practical Work | p. 72 |
Getting Started | p. 72 |
Health and Safety | p. 73 |
Notes | p. 79 |
Acquiring Data | p. 79 |
Instrumentation | p. 79 |
Lab Environment | p. 81 |
Model Systems | p. 82 |
Data Analysis and Presentation | p. 83 |
Presenting Your Data | p. 84 |
Charts | p. 84 |
A Word about Error | p. 88 |
Equations | p. 90 |
Tables | p. 90 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 92 |
Constructing the Dissertation | p. 93 |
The Dissertation | p. 93 |
Declaration of Originality | p. 94 |
The Abstract | p. 95 |
Acknowledgements | p. 95 |
List of Abbreviations | p. 96 |
List of Figures | p. 98 |
Contents and Page Numbering | p. 98 |
Chapter 1: Introduction and Literature Review | p. 99 |
Chapter 2: Methodology | p. 100 |
Chapter 3: Experimental Details | p. 100 |
Chapter 4: Results and Discussion | p. 101 |
Conclusions | p. 103 |
Bibliography | p. 104 |
Appendices | p. 104 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 104 |
Posters and Oral Presentations | p. 106 |
Presenting Your Work | p. 106 |
Critical Components | p. 108 |
Presenting Posters | p. 110 |
Poster Size | p. 110 |
Poster Templates | p. 110 |
Poster Background | p. 111 |
Font Style | p. 113 |
Font Size | p. 114 |
General Design Considerations | p. 114 |
Oral Presentations | p. 118 |
Slide Design | p. 121 |
Templates | p. 121 |
Headings | p. 122 |
Content | p. 123 |
Question Sessions | p. 123 |
Summary/Key Points | p. 125 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 127 |
Almost There | p. 127 |
Adding a Final Polish | p. 128 |
Chapter Dividers | p. 128 |
Permission | p. 129 |
Newspaper Reports | p. 130 |
Bookmark | p. 130 |
Final Steps | p. 130 |
Subject Index | p. 132 |
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