William E. Russey, (WILEY-VCH Hans F. Ebel, Claus Bliefert Soo ewan How to Write a Successful Science Thesis The Concise Guide for Students h is absolu complex 1 of OmE ate fading sested ff . af prescribed 2 efficient folding of OmpA into stoichiometries of 0.51.7 mol Ompa~. For fast kinetics an ‘of OmpA, about 1.5-5Copyrighted Material Authors All books published by Wiley-VCH are carefully produced. Nevertheless, authors, editors, and Dr. William F. Russey publisher donot warrant the information contained in 3508 Cold Springs Road these books, including this book, to be free of errors Huntingdon, PA 16652 Readers are advised to keep in mind that statements, USA data, illustrations, procedural details or other items russey/a@juniata.eckt may inadvertently be inaccurate Dr, Hans Friedrich Ebel Library of Congress Card No. applied for Im Kantelacker 15 (64646 Heppenheim British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Germany A catalogue record for this book is available from the cbel-heppenheim‘at-ontine de British Library Prof, Dr. Claus Bliefert Bibliographic information published by Meisenstrate 60 Die Deutsche Bibliothek 48624 Schéppingen Die Deutsche Ribliothek lists this publication in the Germany Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic biefervamh-muensterde lat is available in the Internet at © 2006 WILEY-V! Weinheim CH Verlag GimbH & Co. KGaA, Allrights reserved (including those of translation into ‘other languages). No part of this book may be repro- ‘duced in any form — by photoprinting, microfilm, oF any other means - nor transmitted or translated into a machine language without written permission from the publishers. Registered names, trademarks, ec used in this book, even when not specifically marked +. are not 10 be considered unprotected by law Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany Printed on acid-free paper Typesetting Claus Bliefert, Schoppingen Printing betz-druck GmbH, Darmstadt Binding —_Litges & Dopf Buchbinderei GmbH, Heppenheim 27.31.2086 31298-6 Copyrighted MaterialCopyrighted Material Contents Introduction 1 Part 1 Style and Methods 3 1 The Laboratory Notebook 5 2 Literature Work 18 3 Getting Started: Outline and First Dratt 26 4° Writing Style 34 5 Writing Techniques 44 Part I] The Components of a Thesis 53 Title, Title Page 55 Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements 62 Table of Contents 66 9 Abstract 72 10 Introduction, Definition of the Problem — 80 I] Results 88 12 Discussion 96 13) Conclusions 106 14 Experimental Section 109 IS Bibliography 115 16 Appendices. Miscellaneous Other Sections 122 Part IML Speci Elements 125 17 Footnotes 127 18 Numbers, Qu: 19 Mathematical Expressions and 20 Tables 151 ies, Units, and Funetions 132 Equations 142 Copyrighted Material