How to write a thesis design

Graduation design (thesis) is the last important part of learning before graduation, is the important process of learning to deepen and sublimation. It is not only a comprehensive summary of the results of students' study, research and practice, but also a comprehensive test of students' quality and ability, and is also an important basis for students' graduation qualification and degree qualification certification. In order to ensure the quality of our undergraduate graduation design (thesis), we have formulated the "Tongji University undergraduate graduation design (thesis) writing norms".

I. Composition of Graduation Design (Thesis) Materials A. Graduation Design (Thesis) Mission Statement; B. Graduation Design (Thesis) Grade Evaluation; C. Thesis or Graduation Design Prospectus (including: cover, Chinese and foreign language abstracts or general description of the design (including key words), Table of Contents, main text, Acknowledgments, References, Appendices); D. Translations and copies of the original text; E. drawings and diskettes, and so on.

II. Filling in and Binding of Graduation Design (Thesis) Information Graduation design (thesis) uniformly use the school printed graduation design (thesis) information bag, graduation design (thesis) mission statement, graduation design (thesis) grade assessment, graduation design (thesis) cover, manuscript paper (downloaded from the Office of the Registrar on the Internet, the school unified paper format, use A4 printing paper).

The graduation design (thesis) information should be filled out carefully according to the requirements, the font should be neat, the volume should be neat, and handwriting should always be in black or blue-black ink; the mission statement should be filled out and signed by the supervising teacher, and sent out after the signature of the dean (department head).  The thesis or design manual should be bound in order: cover, abstract or general description of the design in Chinese and foreign languages (including key words), table of contents, body, acknowledgements, references, appendices bound together, and then put into the filled-out document together with the assignment letter of the thesis (dissertation), the assessment letter of grades of the thesis (dissertation), translations and photocopies of the original language (stapled together), engineering drawings (folded and bound according to the national standard), and floppy disks. The documents will be submitted to the instructor for checking and filing after review and evaluation.

Three, the content and requirements of the graduation design manual (thesis) A complete graduation design (thesis) should include the following aspects:

1. title

The title should be short, clear, generalized. The number of words in the title should be appropriate and should not exceed 20 words. If some details must be put into the title, it can be divided into main title and sub-title.

2. Abstract or general description of the design Abstract of the dissertation to summarize the content of the research topic in a condensed form, the Chinese abstract in about 300 words, the foreign language abstract of about 250 real words is appropriate, the key words are generally 3 to 5 is appropriate.

The general description of the design mainly introduces the source of the design task, design criteria, design principles and the main technical information, the Chinese word count should be within 1500-2000 words, the foreign word count should be about 1000 words, and the key words should be about 5 in general.

3. Table of Contents

The table of contents is written under three levels of headings (i.e., 1......, 1.1......, 1.1.1......), and the level of headings is required to be clear. The headings in the table of contents should be consistent with those in the main text, and the appendices should also be included in the table of contents in sequence.

4. Body

The body of the graduation design specification (thesis) includes the introduction, the main body and the conclusion, the contents of which are as follows: the introduction should explain the significance of the subject, the purpose, the scope of the research and the technical requirements to be achieved; briefly describe the development of the subject at home and abroad in the general situation and the problems that exist; explain the guiding ideology of the subject; elaborate on the main problems that should be solved by the subject, and the amount of text should be more than the abstract. The amount of text should be more than the abstract.

The main body of the text is a detailed expression of the research work, which includes: the formulation of the problem, the basic premise, assumptions and conditions of the research work; the establishment of the model, the development of the experimental program; the basic concepts and theoretical foundations; the design and calculation of the main methodology and content; the experimental methodology, content and its analysis; theoretical demonstration, theoretical application of the subject, the subject of the results obtained, as well as the discussion of the results and so on. Discussion, etc. Students generally cover only a part of the above depending on the nature of the graduation design (thesis) topic.

The conclusion is a summary of the entire research work, a comparison of the results obtained with the existing results and the remaining problems of the subject, as well as insights and suggestions for further research. The conclusion should be written in a general and brief manner.

5. Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should be a short text on the subject of research and design specifications (thesis) in the process of writing has been given directly to help people (such as instructors, teachers and other personnel to answer questions) to express their own gratitude, which is not only a kind of courtesy, but also respect for the labor of others, is the ideological style of treatment of the scholars should be.

6. References and appendices

References are an indispensable part of the graduation design (dissertation), which reflects the graduation design (dissertation) of the source of the material, the breadth of the material and the reliability of the material, but also the author of the results of the knowledge of others to recognize and respect. A complete bibliography can provide readers with a valuable information material. Generally do the graduation design (thesis) should not be too many references, but should be included in the main literature can be more than 10, of which foreign language literature in more than 2.

Appendix is for some should not be put in the text, but has the reference value of the content, can be compiled into the graduation design (thesis) of the appendix, such as the formula of the deduction, the preparation of the program, etc.; If the article cited in the symbols more, to facilitate the reader to access, you can prepare a symbols description, indicating the meaning of the symbols represent. General appendix should not be too large, if the length of the appendix more than the text, it will give people a feeling of light-headedness.

Fourth, graduation design (thesis) requirements

Our graduation design (thesis) broadly design, theoretical research (science), experimental research, computer software design, economics, management and liberal arts, comprehensive, etc., the specific requirements are as follows:

1. Design (including mechanical, architectural, civil engineering, etc.): students must independently draw to complete a certain The number of drawings, engineering drawings in addition to computer graphics must be 1 to 2 (more than 2 including 2 drawings) is hand-drawn; a 15,000-word design manual (including calculations, research reports); no less than 10 references, of which more than 2 foreign language literature.

2. Theoretical research category (science): engineering students of this type of subject is generally not advocated, faculties and departments should be careful in choosing the topic, unless the topic does have practical significance. The word count of the graduation design report or thesis should be more than 20,000 words; according to the topic of the problem, analyze the problem, put forward a plan, and modeling, simulation and design calculations, etc.; no less than 15 references, of which more than 4 foreign language literature.

3. Experimental research: students should independently complete a complete experiment, obtain enough experimental data, the experiment should be exploratory, rather than simply repeat the existing work; to complete a 15,000-word thesis, which includes a literature review, the experimental part of the discussion and conclusions, etc.; no less than 10 references, including more than 2 foreign language literature.

4. Computer software: students should independently complete a software or a module of a larger software, there should be enough workload; to write more than 10,000 words of software manuals and thesis; graduation design (thesis), such as the content involved in the circuit, must complete the debugging work, there should be a complete test results and to give a variety of parameter indexes; when the content of computer software, to complete the debugging work, there should be complete test results and give a variety of parameter indexes; when the content of computer software, there should be no less than 10 references, including two foreign literature. When it comes to the content of computer software, computer demonstration program to run and give the results.

5. Economics, management and liberal arts: students complete the opening report under the guidance of the teacher; write a thesis of a certain level on the topic of more than 20,000 words (the length of the thesis for foreign language majors is more than 5,000 words.) ; no less than 10 references, including 1-2 foreign language literature.

6. Comprehensive: comprehensive graduation design (thesis) requirements include at least the above three types of content, such as engineering design content, in the drawings of the workload can be reduced as appropriate, to complete more than 10,000 words of thesis, no less than 10 references, including more than 2 foreign language literature.

Each student in the completion of the graduation design (thesis) at the same time required: (1) translation of 20,000 foreign printed characters or translated more than 5,000 Chinese characters of the relevant technical information or professional literature (foreign language majors translate 6,000 to 8,000 characters of professional literature in foreign languages or write 10,000 characters of foreign literature in the Chinese book report), the content should be combined with the subject matter as far as possible (the translation, together with the original text in a separate bound volume). (2) Use computer for drawing, or data acquisition, data processing, data analysis, or literature search, thesis editing and so on.  Drawing is the basic training of engineering design, graduation design students should apply computerized drawing, but as the basic training of drawing can require a certain amount of ink lines and pencil line drawings. Graduation design drawings should be consistent with the drafting standards, students should refer to the Academic Affairs Office in March 2004 printed "graduation design drawing specifications" for drawing.

V. Writing Rules of Graduation Design (Thesis)

1. Writing

Graduation design (thesis) shall be written or printed on the school's prescribed manuscript paper (handwritten in black or blue ink), the text and charts are not allowed to be written on the back of the paper, no part of the text shall be written outside the border of the paper, and the paper shall not be lengthened or truncated at will. Chinese characters must use the standardized characters announced by the State.

2. Punctuation Punctuation in the thesis should be used in accordance with the "Punctuation Usage" published by the Press and Publication Bureau.  3. Nouns, names scientific and technical terms and terminology as far as possible to use the National Natural Science Nomenclature Review Committee announced the standard word or national standards, the Ministry of Standards in the name, has not yet been unified or called the name of the terminology of the controversial name can be used in the name of the customary. When a foreign abbreviation is used instead of a noun or term, its meaning should be indicated in parentheses when it appears for the first time. The names of foreigners are generally written in their original English names, in accordance with the principle of "first name first, last name last". Generally well known foreign names (such as Newton, Darwin, Marx, etc.) can be written in accordance with the usual standard translation translation.

4. Quantity and unit

Quantity and unit must be used by the Chinese people *** and the country's national standards GB3100 ~ GB3102-93, which is based on the International System of Units (SI). Units of non-physical quantities, such as pieces, units, people, yuan, etc., can be used with Chinese characters and symbols to form a combination of forms of units, such as pieces / units, yuan / km.

5. numbers

The graduation design (thesis) of the measurement of statistical data in Arabic numerals, but in the description of the number is not very large, generally do not use Arabic numerals, such as "he discovered two asteroids", "three forces for the It is not appropriate to write "he discovered two asteroids" or "three forces were used for one point". The approximate number can be in Chinese or Arabic numerals, such as "about 150 people", can also be written as "about 150 people".

6. title level

The graduation design (thesis) of all the title level should be organized, neat and clear. The same level should use a unified representation of the body, the body of the content of the various levels of the title should correspond to their respective titles, there should be no irrelevant to the title of the content.  Chapter numbering method should be graded Arabic numerals numbering method, the first level for "1", "2", "3", etc., the second level for "2.1", "2.2", "2.3", etc., the third level for the "2.2.1", "2.2.2", "2.2.3", etc., but graded Arabic numerals numbering is generally not more than four levels, the two levels are separated by the lower corner of the dot, each level of the end of the end of no additional Punctuation.

The headings of each level are written on separate lines. The first level of the title is written in the center; the second level of the title of the ordinal writing top, after the empty space to write the title, the end of the punctuation; the third and fourth level of the title are two empty space to write the ordinal, after the empty space to write the title. The order of the headings below the fourth level, which occupy separate rows, is A.B.C .... and a.b.c. two levels, and the headings are all written with two empty spaces for the ordinal number, followed by one empty space for the title. The main text of the general item including the sub-item using (1), (2), (3) ... separate ordinal number, the sub-item of the sub-item using ①, ②, ③ ... ordinal number or number with half brackets, brackets are no longer added after other punctuation.

7. Note

The graduation design (thesis) there are individual terms or situations need to be explained, you can add a note to explain the note can be used at the end of the note (the note will be placed on the lower end of the note page) or at the end of the note (all the notes will be focused on the end of the article), but not feasible in the note (note sandwiched between the main text). Notes are limited to the same page on which they appear, and may not be separated by pages.

8. formula

Equation should be written in the center, the formula number in parentheses at the end of the formula right line, the formula and the number of dotted lines between.  9. Forms

Each form should be the order and title of the table, the order and title of the table should be written in the table on the center, the table after the order of an empty space to write the table title. Forms are allowed to write on the next page, the table title can be omitted, the table header should be repeated, and in the upper right to write "continued x x x".

10. Illustrations

The illustrations of the graduation design must be carefully crafted, the line thickness should be appropriate, the surface should be neat and beautiful. Each illustration should have a preface and title, the preface and title should be placed in the center of the figure below. The diagrams should be drawn on tracing paper or on white paper with ink lines, or they can be drawn by computer.

11. References

References are always placed in the text, references to the writing format according to the national standard GB7714-87 provisions. References appear in the text in order to unify the natural numbering of Arabic numerals, the general serial number should be bracketed with square brackets, not bracketed with garden brackets.