Writing theses

• You're going to have to write a thesis to complete your degree.
• The MSc thesis should be about 15000 words.
• Have a look at some old theses.
• Find a supervisor early and talk to them.
• Get some research done early, but also start writing early.
• Make sure your supervisor gets a couple of drafts before you submit.
• Use citations and a bibliography. Appendices come after the bib.
• The required/expected length doesn't count the appendices.
• Write the abstract last.
• The thesis is marked by your supervisor and a second marker.
• If they agree that's the mark you get. If they can't come to an agreement a third marker is called in.
• Binding doesn't really matter, but I have to say a nice hard binding raises my opinion of a thesis by 1 or 2%; it shouldn't but it does.