Chapter Ⅰ Introduction Part Ⅰ Purposes and difficulties of thesis writing Part Ⅱ Proper style of a thesis Part Ⅲ Structure of a thesis Part Ⅳ How to write a good title Part Ⅴ Sample reading Chapter Ⅱ Writing Abstracts Part Ⅰ Essential elements of an abstract and their respective functions Part Ⅱ Abstract, summary and executive summary Part Ⅲ Varieties of abstracts Part Ⅳ Rules of different abstracts Part Ⅴ Frequently used structures Part Ⅵ Abstract writing Review Exercise Ⅰ Key to Review Exercise Ⅰ Chapter Ⅲ Writing Acknowledgments Part Ⅰ Proper style of acknowledgments and who should be thanked Part Ⅱ Useful sentence pattems to write acknowledgments Chapter Ⅳ Writing Introduction Part Ⅰ Stages of introduction Part Ⅱ Stage 1: Outline of the background Part Ⅲ Stage 2: Review of literature or review of researches done Part Ⅳ Stage 3: Problems which need further study Part Ⅴ Stage 4: Stating the purpose of the research Part Ⅵ Stage 5: Implication or justification of the research Part Ⅶ Stage 6: Organization of the thesis Review Exercise Ⅱ Key to Review Exercise Ⅱ Chapter Ⅴ Describing Procedures Part Ⅰ Procedure description Part Ⅱ Commenting on tables and charts Chapter Ⅵ Results and Discussions Part Ⅰ Get familiar with sentence structures in results description and discussions Part Ⅱ Translation exercise Chapter Ⅶ Coming to a Conclusion Part Ⅰ Elements of a conclusion Part Ⅱ How to compose a conclusion Review Exercise Ⅲ Key to Review Exercise III Chapter Ⅷ Compiling a Bibliography Part Ⅰ General steps and rules of bibliography Part Ⅱ Introduction to Chicago style Part Ⅲ Specific rules about notes-bibliography system Part Ⅳ Author-date system: the basic form of citation APPENDIXES APPENDIX Ⅰ Sample thesis for abstract writing APPENDIX Ⅱ Titles, key words and abstracts to be improved APPENDIX Ⅲ Titles and their translation: specifically designedfor Chinese students APPENDIX Ⅳ APA format and MLA fomat
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