Personal experience, personal experience, hope to provide readers with a route for doing graduation projects.
Undergraduate thesis process:
- Proposal
- Find a supervisor and determine a topic. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project Advisor Topic Selection
- Conduct a comprehensive search for relevant literature and browse to understand keywords and concepts. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Do Literature Study
- Write an outline for the proposal and selectively read literature during this period.
- Search for literature targetedly and supplement the proposal.
- Determine the timeline for tasks.
- Organize the proposal. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Write Thesis Proposal
- Implementation
- Write a literature review and find foreign literature as translation materials (using AI translation makes it easy). Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Write Literature Review
- Master unfamiliar tools, such as software, programming languages, mathematics, etc.
- Find a similar master's thesis and refer to its process for your own research. This part is the essence of the graduation project, which varies depending on the type. Without articles, do it with dedication.
- Write the graduation thesis, refer to the master's thesis to determine the chapters, start with the simpler ones, quickly draft, and revise later. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Write Undergraduate Thesis
- Defense
- Check for plagiarism and reduce similarity. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Lower Similarity Index
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation and defend the thesis. Read the article: To Undergraduate Project How to Defend
Writing a thesis is not like writing an essay. It requires more than just typing. It also involves creating figures, formulas, and referencing literature. Based on data, you need to generate graphs or draw diagrams, manage references, etc. These basic skills are generally not taught in schools and can only be self-taught.
- First of all, everyone knows Word, but everyone is also tired of its styles. Therefore, it is recommended to write the thesis using LaTeX. Read the article: Write for BITer Generate Graduation Thesis with LaTeX
- Literature management. It's manageable to manually handle 10 references, but what about 50 or 100? And how to take notes and make citations without manually typing each reference item? Read the article: To Graduation Project How to Manage Bibliography
- Creating figures, mainly flowcharts, diagrams, and data graphs. Read the article: To Graduation Project How to Create Images
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Reference note.
This series refers to many articles from 经验卷轴:入门学术论文写作 - 少数派 (sspai.com), which I personally find quite helpful.