Guideline: How to write the thesis report

The following tips came from my personal experience during writing my master thesis report. I hope this could help friends to start your research/thesis on the right track and reduce your time to manage it. Any suggestions are welcome as well.

• Where should I start?
1. Select your interesting area, it's highly recommended to focus on your future career life. 
2. Think about the situation and problems existing in that area, this will lead to your research/thesis topics.
3. Go to more information on google/youtube/teds any platform that could give you the reality of the current situation of that topic area (spend your time serving for 2-3 days if possible, so you will see a clearer picture of what you're interested in).
4. Focus on only one important problem as your topic, which you will give your contribution to solving.

• Before start writing?
1. Think about the topics related to your thesis background, problem statements, and potential solutions.
2. List those topics in the hierarchy of sub-topics and arrange them in order that the presentation should be.
3. List your important ideas related to each sub-topic (if you have some strong interest or pieces of knowledge about it) into the "Topics hierarchy" file.

• How to start the literature review keep my citation quotes? 
1. Copy the topics hierarchy you've listed from the above steps, paste them into a document program you choose (like Google docs, MS-words) name the file like "Draft Report".
2. Now, you can go for literature review by searching your problem statements in education websites (e.g. google scholars, sciencedirect, researchgate, semanticscholar, ieee, etc.) with filtering your preferred criteria such as year of publication
3. Whenever you've downloaded an article, change the file name to its title, then put it into a new folder like "References".
4. found some interesting quotes which could be used to support/argue your idea, copy it paste into the document editor you use under the related topics with its citation (article's title, year of publication) in front of each quote.
5. Write the full references style into the last page of your report every time you do a citation.
6. Open a sheet (like Google sheets, MS-excel) for the "Literature Review Summary" and list the column as below:
• article's title, year of the publication
• add color-tag identify your most related topic which the article relies on
• short description about what they do and how was the result
• their methodology
• remarkable additional knowledge they gave in the articles, which might not be included in your report.
7. Do these iteratively for next articles, next problem statement, until you get overall of how the writing will be.

• How to start the report writing?
1. Copy your Draft Report to a new document plus created date like "Report_20201230".
2. Write an Introduction, imagine as you're telling the overall story of the following questions to your advisor:
• what you're gonna do
• describe how's it important
• how is the current situation
• what are existing solutions from literature reviews
• what is the gap you need to do
• what is the main goal of the thesis
3. Write the literature review, starting from:
• the first problem - its solutions, arguments, facts support ideas with citation
• the second problem - its solutions, arguments, facts support ideas with citation
• and so on ...
4. Categorize the articles belong datasets, methodologies, else which related or could be applied to your work.
5. Write the chapter summary of what you've got from those literature reviews.

• Writing methodology?
1. List steps of what will you do to accomplish your goal in sequent order.
2. Describe each step in details as follow:
• step name
• short description
• the expected output of this step (to determine that you've done this step)
• who are stakeholders, people involved with this step
• input data, or else which is important to specify since the first start
3. Refer to the original articles if you derived any ideas from those literature reviews.
4. Write your methodology in a diagram or picture which easily understands overall what you will do at first glance.

To be continued ...