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Making a bibliography for your final year project

Making a bibliography for your final year project. Chris Price. Example Project. Goals of the work Identify the benefits that might be expected from an integrated project management and dataflow system for use in building jack-up rigs;

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Making a bibliography for your final year project

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  1. Making a bibliography for your final year project Chris Price

  2. Example Project Goals of the work • Identify the benefits that might be expected from an integrated project management and dataflow system for use in building jack-up rigs; • Outline the requirements that such a system must satisfy; • Produce an architectural design for such a system; • Identify potential problem areas in constructing such a system. • It is explicitly not the intention to construct a functioning system. The emphasis is on modelling the information flow and system architecture rather than modelling the data and processes, although a prototype will be produced showing the principles.

  3. Actual Bibliography [REF: GLO] - http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/.. [REF: EAS] - http://www.easterndrilling.no/... [REF: OCE] - http://www.oceanstaroec.com/. [REF: RIG] - http://www.rigzone.com/.... [REF: TLC] - http://www.tlcnet.np.edu.sg/.. . [REF: PMB] - Project Management Institute, Newton Square, Pennsylvania, USA. (2000), A Guide to the Project management Body of Knowledge. [REF: ROG] - Pressman, Roger S. (1997) Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition. [REF: TH01] - Connolly, Thomas M. & Begg, Carolyn E. (1999) Database Systems, A practical approach to design, implementation and management. Addison-Wesley. [REF: MIK] - Goodland, Mike & Slater, Caroline. (1995) SSADM version 4: A practical approach. McGraw-Hill. [REF: TH02] - Connolly, Thomas M & Begg, Carolyn E. (2000) Database Solutions, A step-by-step guide to building databases. Addison-Wesley. [REF: PHI] - Pratt, Philip J & Adamski, Joseph J. (2002) Concepts of database management. Thomson course technology.

  4. How would I suggest that you approach creating a bibliography for such a problem? • Think what are the areas where knowledge is needed • even if you think you already have “the answer” - what you have is AN answer: are there other, possibly better ones?) • Think where you might you look • Internet • Sites • Books • Papers - Google Scholar, Citeseer • Library • On-line library search

  5. What should you do with the references you find? • Don’t just add them to your bib list! • Read efficiently • Read intro/contents - decide if likely relevant • Skim read, taking in main ideas • Decide what you want to know more about and concentrate on those sections • Important papers, you might need to read them a number of times • Write it up in your annotated bibliography

  6. Bibliographic Style • Consistency is important - pick a style and stick to it • Advice on web pages about details needed for a reference is pretty good • Include ALL items that you look at that are relevant (generally, writing a technical paper, this is not the case)

  7. Bibliographic ordering • Three sensible choices • Order that they appear in main text (not so good for the project, because…) • Alphabetical order • [Loosemore and Uwer] state (p33) “project management is good”.... • By section - split into different topics with a heading for each section. If you do this, still need one of other choices within section. • Numbering items for easy reference is always good

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