- •Master's thesis methodical guide Regulations on procedures for preparation, presentation and defense of master’s thesis
- •Contents
- •1 General Issues
- •2 Master’s Thesis Writing and Defense
- •2.1 Selection of Master’s Thesis Topic
- •2.2 Approval of Thesis Topic and Supervisor
- •2.3 Responsibilities of Master Student and Thesis Supervisor
- •2.4 Individual Plan of Master Student Work
- •2.5 Certification and Interim Evaluation of Master’s Thesis
- •2.6 Final evaluation of Master’s Thesis by Supervisor
- •2.8 Reviewing of Master’s Thesis
- •2.9 Submission of Master’s Thesis by Head of Department
- •2.10 Preparation to Master’s Thesis Defense
- •2.11 Defense of Master’s Thesis
- •3 Reference Guide for Content and Formatting Thesis
- •3.1 General Formatting Rules
- •3.2 Abstract
- •3.3 Contents
- •3.4 Symbols and abbreviations
- •3.5 Introduction
- •3.6 Body text
- •3.7 Visual Content in Text
- •Figure 2.1 — State expenses on education in eu, million euro
- •3.8 Summary
- •3.9 Bibliography
- •3.10 Appendices
- •Appendix a Nomination of Thesis Title and Supervisor form
- •Theoretical foundations of strategic trade policy
- •The commercial disputes in the world information market
- •Dispute Settlement Process
- •Appendix g Formatting Requirements to Thesis
- •Appendix j Abstract sample
- •Abstract
- •Appendix к Table of Contents sample
- •Table of contents
- •Appendix l Symbols and Abbreviations sample symbols and abbreviations
- •Appendix м Specimen of Tables and Figures Formatting
- •Figure м — Share of tourism in total governmental expenditures in developing countries during 2000-2009
- •Appendix n References sample
- •Appendix p Bibliography sample bibliography
- •Appendix q Certificate of Adoption of Master’s Thesis Findings form
Appendix j Abstract sample
Thesis topic: “Belarusian Enterprises’ International Scientific and Technical Co-Operation Development (example of State Enterprise “Scientific and Technological Park of the BNTU «Polytechnic»”)
Abstract
Master’s thesis: 114 pages, 5 fig., 7 tabl., 79 sources, 6 append.
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION, ENREPRISES, GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION, CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION
Object of research - the international scientific technical cooperation (ISTC) of the enterprises.
Subject of research - the development of ISTC within the Belarusian-Chinese partnership, participation in the cooperation by enterprises of the Republic of Belarus.
Purpose of work: to reveal the theoretical foundations of international scientific and technical cooperation and to develop practical recommendations for its activation (or the direction of its improvement, development) between the enterprises of the Republic of Belarus and China for example Science and Technological Park of National Technical University "Polytechnic".
Methods of research: dialectic (scientific abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, the unity of quantitative and qualitative analysis of the historical and logical), comparative analysis, method groups, economics and mathematics, expert assessments.
Elements of scientific innovation: the ways of intensification of international scientific and technical cooperation and foreign trade enterprises are developed, organizational structure of the company is improved.
Area of the possible practical applications: the activities of companies in the field of scientific and technical cooperation.
Approbation: international conferences, adoption deed of "Polytechnic".
Implementation’s results: committing the least number of steps to find the information sought, partners and products.
Economic significance: the introduction of practical recommendations will contribute to the growth of the quantity and quality of the international scientific and technical agreements, increased profits from joint work.
Social significance: implementation of recommendations of the international scientific and technological cooperation will increase the wages of workers employed in the implementation of the international science and technological agreements that ensure the improvement of their living standards.
The author acknowledges the work that resulted in his settlement and analytical material correctly and objectively reflects the state of the process, and all borrowed sources from the literature and other theoretical and methodological terms and concepts accompanied by references to their authors.
(master student’s signature)
Appendix к Table of Contents sample
Thesis topic: “The Strategic Trade Policies: Commercial Disputes on the World Information Market”
Table of contents
Introduction…..………………………………………………………………….. |
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1 Theoretical foundations of strategic trade policy……………………………. |
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1.1 The approaches for the definition of strategic trade policy……………….. |
8 |
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1.2 The characteristics of strategic trade policy ……………………………… |
15 |
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1.3 The types of strategic trade policies……….……………………………….. |
26 |
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1.4 The commercial disputes in strategic trade policy………………………… |
28 |
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1.5 The strategic trade policy in the context of the WTO multilateral system........ |
30 |
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2 The commercial disputes in the world information market….……………… |
33 |
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2.1 The tendencies in the development of the world information market……..…. |
33 |
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2.2 The major players in the world information market………………………... |
40 |
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2.3 The examples of commercial confrontation in the world information market…………………………………..……………………………………….. |
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2.4 The role of the WTO in commercial disputes…………………………….. |
50 |
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3 Dispute Settlement Process……..…………………………………………… |
53 |
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3.1 The legal aspects of dispute settlement …………………………………… |
53 |
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3.2 The economic effects from dispute settlement..…………………………… |
59 |
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3.3 Dispute settlement system in the WTO……………………………………. |
65 |
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Summary…........................................................................................................ |
70 |
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Bibliography.…………………………................................................................... |
73 |
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APPENDIX А |
Firm-level technology absorption in 2013 in Europe………. |
79 |
APPENDIX B |
Countries’ ranking by the Networked Readiness Index 2013 |
80 |
APPENDIX C |
Examples of goals found in national broadband/ICT plans, by economy groups ……………………………………………. |
82 |