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2008
CSE4402 S.E. Honours Project:
Priorities (.html file)
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The purpose of this document is to increase the chances that the project is
(i) a sound research project,
(ii) of acceptable difficulty, i.e. neither trivial nor impractical,
(iii) well understood by all parties,
(iv) with clear objectives known to student and supervisor(s).
These objectives must be
negotiated with your supervisor(s) by the due date of
the research proposal and lodged with the honours coordinator.
The document also forms a marking guide for the examiners
of the honours-thesis/ final-report (not the research proposal).
Feel free to add extra items if necessary.
Objectives can be renegotiated -- provided that they are
re-lodged at least four weeks before the thesis deadline.
| Student, name |
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| Project Title |
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Main research contribution:
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The following section covers what areas
of previous work should be examined for the project.
Previous work may include published literature and also
designs, programs, hardware etc. by staff, students and others.
It is essential that any relevant previous work is well-researched,
clearly identified, cited, analysed, evaluated,
placed in context and, where appropriate, used in the project.
This must be clear from the thesis.
Note that there might be a separate ``literature review'' section
in the thesis, but previous work can be well discussed and
clearly identified in other ways.
max is the maximum possible mark
that could conceivably be awarded
to the thesis' analysis of the corresponding topic if carried out
independently and flawlessly with great insight.
mark is the actual mark allocated to the analysis
of the topic in the thesis.
Marks of 80%, or more, are rare and
require careful justification.
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area: brief description |
max |
?well covered? - say how/why |
mark |
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2.
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3.
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| Be specific -- no lists of bland buzz words. |
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The next section covers what new research thing or things the
student is expected to create during the project.
A research objective might be to --
prove a new theorem,
devise a new or improved algorithm or data structure, or
evaluate thoroughly a technique (e.g. previous work)
in a new problem area, etc..
There is a fine line between giving
too much and too little detail when listing objectives.
max is the maximum possible mark
that could conceivably be awarded
for the achievement of the corresponding objective
if carried out brilliantly and independently
with great creativity and imagination.
mark is the actual mark allocated for
the degree of achievement of the corresponding objective,
as far as can be learned from the thesis.
Marks of 80%, or more, are rare and
require careful justification.
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Research Objective(s) |
max |
?achieved? say how/why |
mark |
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2.
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3.
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| Be specific -- no lists of bland buzz words. |
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The relative weight, f:(1-f), where 0<f<1,
of the analysis of "previous" work and of the new "student" work
must also be negotiated by student & supervisor.
(I suggest that f be about 0.25+/-, usually, as
there is also an earlier marked lit. review.)
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| ``previous'' totals |
f |
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``student'' totals |
(1-f) |
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final(%) |
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| mark | x
| mark | x
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| max | max |
| examiner: |
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date:___/___/______ |
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© L.A. (Modified by J.McC),
Faculty of Info. Tech. (Clayton),
was School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
FIT, Monash University, Australia 3800.
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