Tips on Completing A Thesis

Assalamualaikum..

Good day everyone ! I’m towards the ending of the year ! roadtoconvo #nya.

Alhamdulillah praise to Allah for all of the nikmat He granted. Working this out not so in rush but I’ve to make it look in rush because I’m heading home early right after my last paper. Alhamdulillah I’ve ended up my two semesters thesis which taught me a lot. In writing, in talking, in investigating, in interviewing, in stressing also !

Here, I'm writing on tips how to complete a thesis, basically for UTM student.

1) Find Supervisor

First of all, make sure to find and seek supervisor. The criteria of the supervisor is first he/she must be closely related to the topic that you desired or to the topic you’ve dreamt ever in making research. Second, choose lecturer who are willing to work with you the without missed. Sometimes the lecturers might be busy since he got too much project at the moment. Check his/her schedule ! Third, opt a supervisor that you’re comfortable to work with. Maybe your favourite lecturer or it might be the lecturer who taught your favourite subject.



2) Attend Your PSM/FYP class

Please attend the first class of the PSM/FYP  made by our coordinator. Input regarding the thesis will be told on the first week. Follow the rules, the schedules given and never delayed. Right of the first semester, an excellent student might already have data collected. 

3) Work without colleagues

This thesis taught me how does it feel to work on something without any colleagues which I firstly found that its easy however its not. Actually we’ve to fix it with the hardness level. Not every work have to depends on friends. However I found that within the hard limit, I succeed to carry it out aloud alone which is the final field work I performed. I did succeed connecting my controller to the network where initially its not functioning for weeks. (paham tak? I’m pretty sure that you aren’t. what I meant is I did the field work on the previous weeks of my succeed week where to the truth, the network is not functioning at all in south area) – (if you can’t grab what I meant, please let me know in the comment below and I will make sure to correct it when I’ve acknowledge how to write it right.)

4) Writing 

Now is the time for writing ! Please ! Meet your supervisors every week. Submit your progress regardless of the file size. It means that, no matter how small your progress, meet your supervisor bcs that way is the only way you might gain help from sv.



5) Format

Few formats should I highlighted here :

- sv declaration should follow the thesis outline. I've the softcopy if you want it, just email me at hayi_dan92@yahoo.com
- the margin have to be 4cm from left and 2.5cm from top, bottom and right.
-the figures caption in thesis, should be written followed by chapters, not round number. never refer to someone else besides your own coordinator. Remember that !

eg : there are three figures in chapter 3. Therefore, the numbering for the figures should be written as 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 If in chapter 4, there are two figure, then it should be written as 4.1 and 4.2.

-the figures caption should be written at the bottom while for table, it should be written on top.

you might have to explore the UTM Manual Thesis 2007 for more format details. Please READ one by one.

5) Printing 

After all of the format was checked, arrange the pages chapter by chapter so that its easy for you to print it later. Below are shortlist on what to concern more.

Printing price - Normal price for the laser printing is RM1 for A4. However, there might be a promotion offered by the printing shops which is RM0.50 per pages for laser printing and RM0.05 for black and white printing services for 3 sets and above. We’re fortunate because the shop near KTDI which is in the Arked Angkasa offered us with that cost ! Alhamdulillah. Generally, Lily shop located at Taman U also have RM0.05 for black and white printing for more than 30 pages but I’m not sure is laser printing available or not.

Penjilidan - For penjilidan process, I found that Lily shop offered RM20 per set. In Rainbow (which is more preferable, I don’t know why, suggested by seniors and few person I asked), they offer RM18 per set for sets of 3 and above. If one set, then the price might be RM20.

Please know that printing and penjilidan is a different process and might be different shop if you can figure it out. You might jilid (hard cover) of your thesis in Taman U area.

Front page and spine - Just prepare a draft on it and give it to Rainbow and they will do it for us.


So total of the project is RM110 for 3 thesis. We’ve to print 3 copies taw. 2 for libraries and 1 for sv. So make sure you’ve the money at the end of the semester. Plan your finance well ! LOL. hahahaha



6) Submission

The thesis should be compliment with CDs. The content of the CD is a pdf file of your combined thesis. The CDs should be covered with a hard box (i don't know what to call them as) not the soft one. Submit 2 copies to the coordinator and 1 copy for your supervisor. Personally hand it to them.

This is the only things I should have highlighted generally for others' reference. You should do your own research too on the manual given.

Good Luck GUYS !!!!!!! I've finished my session-2015 and your turn is just around the corner.