Hinweise zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben
Die folgenden Hinweise sollten Sie unbedingt beim Schreiben englischer Haus-, Studien-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten beachten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der einschlägigen Literatur zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten.
Introduction and state of the art
- Introduce the reader to the subject and the problem of this work
- Give a brief overview on the current state of the art
- What is known, what is unkown?
- Define the need of research
Objectives
- What are the objectives of this work?
- Formulate the hypotheses and give a brief overview how you aimed to verify them
Material and methods
- Describe all applied methods and materials
- Describe the outline of your experiments
Results
- Clearly present and describe your results
- Use of figures and tables and describe their contents
- Clearly separate between description and interpretation!
Discussion and conclusions
- Discuss the significance of your results (results)
- Discuss with respect to literature and give interpretation
- What are the questions still open and which new questions arose?
Outlook
- What are the future perspectives?
- What needs to be done to obtain more detailed insight into the problems?
Structure of your thesis
Introduction and state of the art
- Introduce the reader to the subject and the problem of this work
- Give a brief overview on the current state of the art
- What is known, what is unkown?
- Define the need of research
Objectives
- What are the objectives of this work?
- Formulate the hypotheses and give a brief overview how you aimed to verify them
Material and methods
- Describe all applied methods and materials
- Describe the outline of your experiments
Results
- Clearly present and describe your results
- Use of figures and tables and describe their contents
- Clearly separate between description and interpretation!
Discussion and conclusions
- Discuss the significance of your results (results)
- Discuss with respect to literature and give interpretation
- What are the questions still open and which new questions arose?
Outlook
- What are the future perspectives?
- What needs to be done to obtain more detailed insight into the problems?