Formal Guidelines

In the introduction you introduce and motivate the essay question(s). Moreover, you should indicate how your essay will provide an answer. The conclusion contains a summary of the arguments and issues discussed in the main part. You may also refer forward to future developments in research and society. You may include an appendix to your essay. Elements that would interrupt your text too much such as extensive graphs, data sets, etc., can be put there. However, make sure that your text is coherent and stringent even without the appendix. Include a complete bibliography at the end of the essay. For each of your sources author, title, date and place of publication, publisher, and (in the case of journal articles) page and volume numbers should be cited correctly. Make sure the bibliography is in alphabetic order. Throughout the whole essay, always make a reference when drawing on a source. Maximum length of the thesis: the introduction, the main part and the conclusion should together not exceed 20 pages. Use fontsize 12 and 1.5 lines spacing. Before the introduction you should include a title page, an abstract (optional) and a table of contents (possibly also a list of figures and a list of tables). The title page contains the title of your work, the term “Bachelor’s Thesis”, the name of the department and university, the name of the professor, your name and full address, your email address, your “Matrikelnummer ” and the date you submitted the thesis. If you wish you may include an abstract of your work: It contains a brief summary of your research question and the main findings.