Hi everyone,
I am in the middle of writing my first year report at the moment, and I have to include a section on my plans for future work over the next two years. I have written all the rest of the report in third person past tense, but I can't really do that for this section. Can anyone suggest a suitable style for writing this part as I don't want it to read completely differently to the rest of the report.
Thanks in advance :)
p.s. I'm in the sciences if that makes any difference
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Third person present/future tense should do.. along the lines of
Aims and objectives of Phd work are 1) to better understand ...2) to validate technique 3) to synthesise (or whatever is appropriate)
Future work will include # experiment to fulfill aim 1)... etc.
Or is that not what you meant?
If you can lay hands on a first year report by a fellow student, you can see how they have done it/ what works/what doesnt etc...
I wrote mine in the passive third person form as well. But I'm a humanities student nowadays. Maybe if I was still science I'd write it in the first person.
I did my future work section as a one page flow chart, with rough headings of what I planned to do and rough dates.
I copied this idea of someone who had passed they year before, and it was fine for mine too.
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