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Content & Structure___________________________________________________ 1 Extent _____________________________________________________________ 1 Basics of good Structure _____________________________________________ 1 Parts of the Thesis __________________________________________________ 1 Introduction _____________________________________________________ 2 Theory __________________________________________________________ 2 Argumentation___________________________________________________ 2 Conclusion ______________________________________________________ 4 Style ________________________________________________________________ 5 Structure (formal) ___________________________________________________ 5 Styleguide _________________________________________________________ 6 Fonts ___________________________________________________________ 6 Font Size ________________________________________________________ 7 Page style _______________________________________________________ 7 Header and Footer ________________________________________________ 8 Line spacing _____________________________________________________ 8 Paragraphs ______________________________________________________ 8 Justification ______________________________________________________ 8 Emphasis ________________________________________________________ 9 Headings ________________________________________________________ 9 Spelling _________________________________________________________ 9 Foreign words and technical terms__________________________________ 9 Abbreviations ___________________________________________________ 10 Citations __________________________________________________________ 10 Bibliography ______________________________________________________ 11 Anhang _____________________________________________________________ 12 Example __________________________________________________________ 12 Literaturverzeichnis__________________________________________________ 15
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Figure 1 Example for a document style as defined in thesis.dot ------------- 13 Figure 2 Example for the title -------------------------------------------------------- 14
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Table 1 Styles in thesis.dot ------------------------------------------------------------ 12
The structure of your thesis text is highly dependent of the type of your work, so this chapter can only describe the very general structure of scientific documents.
Extent A Bachelor Thesis has about 30 to 40 pages, while a Master Thesis has 40 to 60 pages excluding title, tables of content/figures/tables and the appendix.
Structuring The most difficult part in writing a thesis text usually is the structure finding find out what is important and when it should be mentioned. Retaining a structure is not only important for the text but also for the general proceeding of your work. The headline of a section summarises the contents of all the subsections of this section Maintain a logical order There are no sections containing only one subsection Do not sub dive too much, 4 levels of headings are enough Headings are followed by text and not by another heading
Parts of the Thesis A thesis text usually contains the following parts (where a part may stretch over several chapters).