Hello
(Here examples
of a proposal and an extended abstract of last year )
Here what we said yesterday about the Proposal.
A proposal in general addresses the following
(i)
What is the problem that I should
address in my master
(ii)
Why this problem is important?
(iii)
What has been done concerning this
problem in the past?
(iv)
How can I contribute to its solution?
What objectives should I achieve for this?
(v)
Which methods/approaches should I take
for each of these objective
(vi)
Which experiments should I do? (Data,
Metrics, comparisons, Discussions, Graphs, etc.)
This proposal is
accompanied by your extended bibliography. Notice that a “Bibliography is any
list of references at the end of the text, whether cited or not. It includes
texts you made use of, not only text you referred to in your paper, but your
own additional background reading, and any other articles you think the reader
might need as background readings. References usually come at the end of text
and should contains only those works cited within the text” [Taken from the
web].
Concerning which
works should you comment in the extended abstract. I suggest you to rank all
your biblio in 4 clusters
(1) Those that
you should read in detail and which are important for your proposal;
(2) Those that
you should just read and which might be important for your proposal;
(3) Those for
which you should have a big picture and which are connected to you
proposal;
(4) Those which
are related to your proposal but you do not have time to read.
Then comments in
your extended bibliography can be (it is suggestion) 4/5 lines for (1); 2 or 3 lines for (2); 1
line for (3) and 0 line for (4).
An example of
comment might be
Finally from
your extended bibliography you should select 2/3 articles for the synthesis.
Deadline for the proposal with its extended
bibliography and the articles for the synthesis is Marsh 14th, 2014.
Then from the 2/3 articles chosen for the synthesis,
you should select 1 article for the presentation. Please send me this article for
Marsh 21, 2014
Pr. B. Chaib-draa
Directeur des études gradués
Dépt IFT/GLO, Université Laval,
Québec, Canada