These are the most important
components of your thesis or report. Put your biggest effort into getting
them perfect. Most professors read the Abstract, Introduction and Conclusions chapters of a thesis first, then they dive into the
main body text afterwards. This means that you have to be particularly careful
in wording these sections, since there is some content overlap. If you
just copy and paste text between them, people will notice and it won’t leave
them with a very favourable impression. Many people read technical
reports in the same order – in fact, some people actually never read anything but the Abstract, Introduction and Conclusions!
There
are some fairly specific rules related to these thesis (or technical report)
components that you must know about. There are also some common sense guidelines
that are useful to know – the main
