As a PhD Examiner … My Top 25 Tips for PhD Students...! -- Prof Bill Buchanan OBE " I have done many MSc/PhD examinations, and I enjoy them so much. With PhD thesis’ I especially like seeing the face of the candidate when I take the thesis out of my bag, and you can’t see the thesis for Post-it notes. This should hopefully show that I’ve read every single word in it, and, hopefully, understood most of it. " So here’s my top Ten 25 hints on how to help your examiner ( many of these should also be relevant to MSc thesis’ too — to a student aiming at a 1st class Hons dissertation ): Say up-front what the problem is , what other people have done, and how you have added to it. The Introduction chapter is the most important chapter of all, and you need to grab the reader, and tell them what the problem is, and how you have solved it. If the examiner understands the thesis after the Introduction, you are half way there. I’ve read a few thesis’ where I had no idea what the point w...
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