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Imagine, for a moment, that your thesis is an important person you are meeting for the first time. It would be normal to be introduced as questions raced through your head: Where are you from? How did you get here? What are you doing here? What type of person are you? What have you done so far, and where are you going? As in social settings, I’ve noticed that students are sometimes in a rush to ‘get started’ and fumble the all-important first impression. Take some time to write the introduction properly, and revise it on a regular basis as your research project matures. Introductions are crucial, and it speaks for you as you strive to join an international community of scholars.
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GW Turner (ed.), The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987. ‘Consider an archer: her aim is to put the arrow in the bull’s eye. She might have a hypothesis that if she was shooting in a northerly direction and the wind was blowing from the east at 10 m per second she would have to shoot at a point 2° to the right of the bull’s eye. She could quite easily test this hypothesis by shooting a group of arrows at the bull’s eye and another group 2° to the right. When she had tested her hypothesis she would be in a better position to achieve her original aim, which was to get arrows in the bull’s eye.’
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Evans†, D., Gruba, P., Zobel, J. (2014). The Introductory Chapter. In: How to Write a Better Thesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04286-2_5
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