Technical Paper
TECHNICAL PAPER (in MS Word)
Technical paper is the compressed version of the FYP report. It must be full of fact and figure, information and analyses of your results. You may found a lot of website on how to write technical paper. One of them is here.
Please use this template for the technical paper. Formatting is one of the marking criteria. Discuss with your supervisor is the best solution. Your supervisor has experienced writing a technical paper.
NOTES FOR THE TECHNICAL PAPER
How to write the technical paper.
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TITLE
The title must not to short or too long. It can be different from your thesis, depend on what are you focusing in the technical paper.
ABSTRACT
This is the synopsis of your technical paper. Normally it is consist of problem statement, aim or objective of your research in the technical paper, methodology, main finding, analyses and conclusions.
INTRODUCTION
You may write a short literature review here. In the second last paragraph, please mention the research gap that you found from your reading. In the last paragraph, write the objective of your research, methodology and research condition that you have conducted.
METHODOLOGY
Explain the main method and procedure on how you conducting this research. It is including the materials’ properties and analyses procedure. Please discuss with your supervisor. Every research theme has it own style in writing the methodology.
RESULT & DISCUSSION
Here, you need to show your results. Normally, a few graph need to be shown in this section. Make sure your figure is “self-explained” and read-able. Font in the figure is not too small. Figure must be clear and not blur. The important one here is the discussion. You need to explain the reason why your result occur like that. What is the similarity or contradiction between your results and other researchers. What theory can be used to explain your finding. Again, you need to discuss with your supervisor. You may get a lot of explaination of your result from the literature review readings.
CONCLUSION
Write a conclusion here from the results that you show in the previous section. Result and conclusion in the technical paper may be different with your conclusion in your thesis. It is depends on how you want to focus your writing in the technical paper.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Please write you acknowledgement here. Say thank you to the lab technicians and your colleagues. Don’t forget your sweetheart.
REFERENCES
Please write your references correctly, according the format. There are 2 common format used in UTM which are name and year format (Ahmad et al., 2017) or numbering format [1]. Please discuss with your supervisor. You may also use Google Scholar to format your reference.