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Chapter 11: Minor Thesis/Project
11.3.12 Things To Avoid 1. Rhetoric. A successful thesis is not necessarily one that looks big and impressive.
Resist the temptation to be verbose. Don’t be over argumentative. Precision is
most important. Avoid superfluous adjectives. Don’t become a Roget’s thesaurus
addict. By all means use a thesaurus; don’t over-use it.
2. Clichés. For example, “Herculean effort,” “untiring efforts,” and “as a whole.”
3. Unreferenced sources. Whenever you are using or referring to work done by others
you should attribute the source of that work.
4. Jargon. There is much jargon in Computer Science. Jargon is difficult to avoid.
However, this is not a problem provided that you carefully define each and every
use of jargon. Please note that VATLAs (Very Awful Three-letter Acronyms) are to
be used sparingly and expanded on first usage!
11.3.13 Content of
Minor Thesis
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In general, the minor thesis should appear as follows.
1. A title page as shown below (do not use the RMIT logo):
Using a Deductive Database for Database
Mining
by
Alfonso Bradley Ng, B.Sc.
Minor thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Master of
Applied Science in Information Technology
School of Computer Science and Information
Technology
RMIT University
Figure 1: Title Page for Minor Thesis