disertation advice

[Going to Cali]

Hi,

I have my dissertation due on the 23rd of april.
I have been working on merging wordnet and cedict to create a bi-lingual language system in java.
In terms of deliverables, I have created a nice program based on solid principles. My report in terms of requirements, design and implementation etc is fine but I am struggling with my preliminary analysis section.

I would like to introduce the two sources of data, talk generally about their structure and the data they hold and then go into examples of machine translation etc, just kicking the writing off is proving difficult.

Any tips?

 

[Mr.Stu]

What is your target audience/reader? What are they supposed to know?

If they have a general awareness of programming then assume they don't know the specifics of the language used. If they have a general awareness of the language talk about the specifics you used for implementation.

For example, my project (coincidently also due in on 23rd April) is about a specific area of Cisco Quality of Service (NBAR/DSCP packet classification). My target audience is somebody familiar with networking. Therefore I've had to build up by sort of following the path Cisco/QoS overview>Packet classification overview>NBAR/DSCP overview>specifics of these>etc etc