The title of your work
by
Your Name
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the
degree of Your Degree of the University of Portsmouth
April 2007
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Copyright
Copyright © 2010 Your Name. All rights reserved.
The copyright of this thesis rests with the Author. Copies (by any means)
either in full, or of extracts, may not be made without prior written consent
from the Author.
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For someone (insert a dedication or delete this page)
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Preface
If you have people to thank, do so on this page, otherwise, delete it.
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Nomenclature
Abstract
Chapter 1
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Introduction ..................................................................................... 10
1.1 A Major Section............................................................................................. 10
1.1.1 A Major Subsection 10
2.1 Another Major Section ................................................................................. 11
3.1 Report Outline .............................................................................................. 11
Chapter 2
4.1
5.1
6.1
A Review of your subject area and topics .................................. 12
Blah blah blah................................................................................................ 12
Bleh bleh bleh ................................................................................................ 12
Chapter Summary ........................................................................................ 12
Chapter 3
Artefact Design ............................................................................... 14
7.1 Introduction................................................................................................... 14
8.1 Design Methodology.................................................................................... 14
9.1 Requirements ................................................................................................ 14
10.1 Proposed Solution ...................................................................................... 15
11.1 Summary...................................................................................................... 15
Chapter 4
12.1
13.1
14.1
15.1
16.1
17.1
2.1.1
18.1
3.1.1
4.1.1
19.1
System Implementation ................................................................ 16
Introduction................................................................................................. 16
Blah Blah ...................................................................................................... 16
Interesting Problems .................................................................................. 16
Summary...................................................................................................... 17
Testing and Evaluation .............................................................................. 18
Introduction................................................................................................. 18
Testing Summary
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Evaluation .................................................................................................... 18
Requirements Review19
Artefact Review
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Testing and Evaluation Summary ........................................................... 19
Chapter 5
Conclusion ....................................................................................... 21
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20.1 Introduction................................................................................................. 21
21.1 Summary...................................................................................................... 21
22.1 Conclusions ................................................................................................. 22
5.1.1 Key Points
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Chapter 6
References ........................................................................................ 23
Appendices 24
Something interesting ........................................................................................... 25
Something Else
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List of Tables
Table 1:
An interesting table
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List of Figures
Figure 1:
An example diagram that shows four connected things
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Nomenclature
A number of key terms are used throughout this document and are defined
here:

A Nomenclature Section can be a useful eay of defining common terms
without having to include a lot of bracketed terms in your document. If
you prefer to introduice terms when they are first used remove this
section.
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Abstract
This abstract should be the last thing you write, it is a summary of the
introduction that is only a few sentences long. At most it should be a couple
of paragraphs. It must be very succinct.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
This chapter introduces the overarching themes of this report and places the
motivation for the work into context. Thereafter, the rationale and goals
defined for the investigation of the project are discussed, followed by a
summary of the overall project. Finally, an overview of the dissertation is
given on a per-chapter basis.
Your words begin here at the high level, then dive into detail in sections and
subsections...
1.1
A Major Section
Your words go here...
1.1.1
A Major Subsection
Your words go here...
1.1.1.1 A Minor Subsection
Your words go here...
Chapter 1 - Introduction
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y
a
b
x
d
Figure 1: An example diagram that shows four connected things
1.2
Another Major Section
This section shows you how the numbering works.
1.3
Report Outline
The rest of this report is organised as follows:
Chapter 2 reviews the state-of-the-art in blah blah...
Chapter 3 describes the design of blah blah...
Chapter 4 describes the implementation of blah blah...
Chapter 5 demonstrates how blah blah performed in testing...
Chapter 6 closes the report, reviewing the work undertaken and draws
conclusions about key parts of the work that was undertaken. Finally, future
work is discussed with particular focus on blah blah...
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Chapter 2 A Review of …
This chapter discusses the state-of-the-art of blah and blah and any blah
considered during the analysis and design phase of this project. The
investigation served n purposes: firstly, we wished to identify blah blah blah
(section Error! Reference source not found.); and secondly we wished to
establish bleh bleh bleh (section 2.2). Finally, section 2.3 summarises the
chapter.
2.1
Blah blah blah
blah
2.2
Bleh bleh bleh
bleh
2.3
Chapter Summary
In Chapter 1 we proposed blah blah blah.
Chapter 2 - A Review of
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In this chapter the state-of-the-art was categorised into blah (section x) and
blah (section y). Observations were made on the systems reviewed (section
z), and the relevance of the state-of-the-art to blah blah was summarised
(section w).
The next chapter presents the design of blah blah, which is a system intended
to blah blah.
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Chapter 3 Artefact Design
3.1
Introduction
In Chapter 2 we identified that blah blah...
This chapter describes the design of blah blah, a system that blah blah. First,
the chapter describes the project’s design methodology (section 3.2), and
system requirements (section 3.3). A proposed solution is then discussed
(section 3.4), followed by a blah blah....
3.2
Design Methodology
The design and development of blah blah
3.3
Requirements
The main purpose of blah blah
Chapter 3 - Artefact Design
3.4
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Proposed Solution
Blah blah blah at a high level, then create subsections that go into detail
3.5
Summary
This chapter described the high-level requirements and design of a system
that blah blah blah. The chapter started by describing blah. The proposed
solution was then discussed in section blah followed by blah in section blah,
etc.
Blah blah is covered in further detail in Chapter 4 which describes the
implementation of blah blah.
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Chapter 4 System Implementation
4.1
Introduction
Chapter 3 presented the design of blah blah. This chapter builds on that
design by detailing the key aspects of the blah blah implementation.
The chapter is organised as follows. Section x provides an overview of blah
blah, etc. Finally, in Section y, a summary of the chapter is given.
4.2
Blah Blah
Write like the wind.
4.3
Interesting Problems
During the project implementation several issues were identified that merit
discussion. This section addresses those topics, which are blah, blah and blah.
Chapter 4 - System Implementation
4.4
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Summary
This chapter described the implementation of blah blah, which was based on
the design described in Chapter 3. The implementation was introduced in
section x and blah blah blah. Once the general implementation details had
been
introduced,
several
interesting
implementation
problems
addressed in section q, including the detailed coverage of blah blah.
were
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4.5
Testing and Evaluation
4.6
Introduction
Chapters 3 and 4 described the design and implementation of blah blah, a
system that blah blah blah. In this chapter, we present a testing method and
its results that show blah blah blah. The chapter is organised as follows:
Section x introduces blah and describes blah. Next, section y presents blah,
etc.
The results of the tests are summarised in section z, before the solution is
evaluated in section qqq.
Write what you did, why you did it and how you did it here.
4.6.1
Testing Summary
In total over n tests were executed. Each test was blah blah blah, and this data
was then used to blah. The tests illustrate that blah blah. In the next section,
this is evaluated and the extent to which it supports the thesis is discussed.
4.7
Evaluation
Chapter 1 highlighted the problem of blah blah blah. Chapter 2 reviewed the
state-of-the-art in blah and blah.
Chapter 3 identified a set of technical
4.5 -Testing and Evaluation
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requirements underpinning the development of blah, and the implementation
of a blah blah was described in Chapter 4.
The testing described in section x demonstrates that blah blah blah. In this
section therefore, we evaluate the implementation and discuss issues in the
underlying technologies that the implementation has highlighted.
4.7.1
Requirements Review
This section reviews the implemented platform, referring back to the
requirements to identify the extent to which each has been fulfilled, and
reflecting on their relevance for future work. Each of the requirements is
reintroduced and discussed in turn.
Refer back to each specified requirement and discuss...
4.7.2
Artefact Review
In this section, we evaluate the implementation of blah blah and review the
prevailing issues that were highlighted by the implementation, which were
blah, blah and blah
4.8
Testing and Evaluation Summary
This chapter introduced blah and blah. In section x a series of tests were
described which demonstrated blah blah.
4.5 -Testing and Evaluation
An evaluation of blah blah was then presented in section y.
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Section z
revisited the requirements described in Chapter 3 and identified that blah
blah blah. Finally in section q the aspects of blah blah were discussed.
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Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1
Introduction
In this Chapter, we first summarise the work described in this report (section
x). Then we draw a number of conclusions about key parts of the work
undertaken in section y, and finally in section z we discuss future work and
how we see Semantic Web technologies helping support projects such as this
one.
5.2
Summary
This is a summary of each chapter intro and summary
Chapter 1 introduced blah.
Chapter 2 reviewed the state-of-the-art in blah and blah. Blah was introduced
and blah described. The potential for blah blah was highlighted.
Chapter 3 describes the design of blah blah. The separate functions of blah
blah that support the requirements were then described in more detail,
including blah and blah.
Chapter 4 described the implementation blah blah.
Chapter 5 - Conclusion
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Chapter 5 presented a series of tests that demonstrate blah blah.
5.3
Conclusions
The aim of this project was to blah blah. We chose to focus on blah blah.
We then designed and implemented a system that could:
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blah

blah

blah

blah
These combined capabilities blah blah blah.
In Chapter 1 we state the general hypothesis that blah blah blah. We have
tested this thesis by blah blah.
5.3.1
Key Points
Discuss future work as you go.
5.3.1.1 Your key Point
Blah point one discussed.
5.3.1.2 Your key Point
Blah point two discussed.
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Chapter 6 References
[1]
Boakes R J, Thesis Template (delete this and replace with your own ).
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Appendices
Appendices
Something interesting
blah blah
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Appendices
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Something Else
Blah blah
A table
Some
Of Interest
Data
That
Needs
To
Be
Communicated Blah blah
Table 1: An interesting table
Appendices
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