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Phase III. Writing the Thesis

   Basic Structure
Diploma theses must be written using the department’s template which you can download (in Greek) from here. The final text must include the title, keywords and abstract both in Greek and English. It is recommended that the text formatting of the thesis template should not be altered in any way and use the text styles and numbering as they are. Some basic points of attention are the constant update of table of contents and table of figures as well as referencing the text with the bibliography found in the pre-writing phase. You can find analytical instructions regarding the proper writing of the thesis in the appendix A of the department’s diploma guide.

   Supervision and Organization of the Diploma Text
Writing the diploma text and organizing the information structure must be done exclusively by the student with the guidance of the supervisor. The communication between the supervisor and the student regarding text corrections is arranged according the needs of the student and the availability of the supervisor. In every case, the final version of the diploma text must be approved by the supervisor before it is forwarded for examination and assessment. Students, should be consistent with their responsibilities and only reach out to the supervisor when necessary for moving on with the diploma. Any unnecessary communication or unavailability to complete the tasks taken by the student may negatively impact their thesis examination grade.

   Use of Languange and Quality of Text
The results and the quality of the student’s research and work will be mainly assessed by the examination committee using the diploma text. Thus, it is of highly importance that diploma text should uphold a high quality with the use of proper language syntax, grammar and terminology of the topic, as it is one of the criteria of diploma assessment. Some key points and practices for a well-written thesis text are:

  • The thesis arguments should be clearly stated with accuracy highlighting and focusing on the goals of the diploma and using scientific based reasoning
  • The text should not include topics that are out of the diploma’s scope or offer no useful information in the diploma's context.
  • Every chapter should be well organized and full in order to have clarity of arguments to be pointed out as concluding.
  • Arguments should be backed up with the proper justification while it is imperative to use referencing when quoting opinions of others.

   References - Citations
One of the most important sections in a diploma is the references section. All the bibliographic sources (books, scientific publications, articles, web pages, etc) are mentioned in this section. Usually they are numbered with the order they are mentioned throughout the text. For example, to use a specific scientific term which is well explained in a book in order to prove a point, it is simply mentioned in the text and right after the keyword a bracket is used with the number of the book referenced in the reference chapter. To cite a source, a citation style[1] must be used for all the sources, either it is a website, book[2] , scientific paper[3] or other.

[1] Scientificstyleandformat.org. 2020. Scientific Style And Format Online - Citation Quick Guide. [online] Available at: <https://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Tools/SSF-Citation-Quick-Guide.html> [Accessed 23 October 2020].

[2]    Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, Ian Robinson. 2010. REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture, 1st edn. Newgen North America: O'Reilly Media.

[3]     Fielding T. Roy. (2000). Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. Dissertation. University of California. URL: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf. [Accessed 23 October 2020].