Writing your report

There are different kinds of reports:

• Research project 7.5 ECTS
• BSc thesis 15 ECTS
• MSc thesis 30 ECTS

General requirements for the report

• Structured as a research paper
• Two-column format (IEEE, ACM for example have templates on Overleaf)
  • e.g., https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ieee-conference-template/grfzhhncsfqn
  • e.g., https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/labreport-ieee-journal-paper-template/ypbfnkbvsyhw
• 8-16 pages as an indication depending on length of project, additional information can be added as appendices. This is rather a MAXIMUM (but not a hard requirement), you should aim to be concise rather just producing text and repeating yourself to get to a minimum number of pages.
  • Note: 8-16 pages for all projects whether you are 1 student or a group of 4
• This is a format that works and external examiners like. The ITU guidelines (on this page) do not apply well to computer science papers.
• We can have one formal draft (that might not have all results etc yet) review about 2 weeks before the submission deadline. We can make an calendar meeting when Veronika will review your draft, if you email your PDF / Overleaf link before that time, you can get comments shortly afterwards.

Writing tips

• See these slides for some guidelines for writing (these were made for a 1st semester BDS course, but the tips do apply more generally)

  20230504_writing.pdf

• Other tips for writing, and doing research projects in general - these were presented by Luca Aiello for all MSc students

  howto_research.pdf

• Check the sciwrite Coursera course https://www.coursera.org/learn/sciwrite

Examples

These are completed, good projects, and the students should be aware these would be shared with future collaborators - but please do not share these outside the lab just in case they change their mind :)