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Overview
Overview
The use of reports, often in the form of theses or dissertations are a very common format for sharing research findings. Most undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Chemistry involve the preparation of a thesis or dissertation as part of a project at the end of the degree programme. These documents are usually a substantial body of work, forming a significant portion of the assessment for a project.
General guidance
General guidance
The precise format reports should take is often specific to the subdiscipline. Becoming familiar with reports in the relevant research area is key to get a feel for the expectations. In general reports are constructed of the following sections:
Title page
Abstract
Table of contents
List of tables
List of illustrations
List of accompanying material
Acknowledgments
Author's declaration
Introduction
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Experimental
Appendices
Abbreviations
References
Guidance for many of these sections is provided, which is shared between different formats for scientific communication. For example the requirements for experimental procedures are strongly linked between reports and journal articles.
University guidance
University guidance
The University provides guidance on the preparation of theses and dissertations for postgraduate students which can be found via the link below:
Theses repository
Theses repository
For postgraduate degrees, theses and dissertations are published into the White Rose E-Theses repository.
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