Have you been searching for a few days and just can’t find any papers on the topic? In this text I would like to give tips for students who are currently unable to find any literature on their thesis. Incidentally, if you get the topic from a practice partner, then I recommend reading my other article. Reading tip: Thesis with practice partner “Help! I can’t find any literature! ” I often receive emails asking me the following: I am writing about topic X and cannot find any literature. Do you have any tips? In 99% of the cases I also send literature back. However, this is not to your advantage. The reason for this is that you have to state in your thesis: Why did you use this literature. An answer like: If Mr. Lindner sent me or came by chance at Google, your supervisor will probably not be very…

Many of you are writing your thesis in collaboration with a company. I also have my master’s thesis agile in the Waterfallworld written with a company. Here the topic should often be very practical and a problem for the company, but at the same time also very academic. The solution of a company-specific problem such as the introduction of a SAP in a medium-sized SME, however, is not a sufficient bachelor thesis in a strictly academic sense. By the way, if you don’t have a topic at all, please read on with my topic-finding article. Reading tip: Find topic “The subject is too practical or too theoretical!” So you are faced with the dilemma that the chair leans on the topic as too vague and the practice partner leans on the topic as too theoretical? For something like this, count on a coordination effort of 3 months. But it is…

You are about to graduate and it should now be a matter of writing a bachelor’s or master’s thesis. But you can’t think of a topic? You have been searching for days and there is simply no research gap or your research question is just too generic? In the following I can give you a rough guide. However, if you already have the topic and just want to narrow the question down, then I recommend another article. Reading tip: Narrow down the research question The tips are from my doctorate. For this reason these are quoted from it. Based on the wishes of my practice partners, I had to limit some topics and uncover other topics. That’s why I’m giving some literature tips. If you like a topic, the first step should be to develop a suitable research design. Reading tip: Find research design My other subject areas, which opened…

During the course of my doctorate, I supervised numerous bachelor and master theses. Learned a lot from the point of view of a supervisor and summarized these tips for your bachelor thesis and master thesis for you. Overall, I believe that with the help of these 7 key points you can be very successful in your work. In the following you will find tips for your bachelor and master thesis! 1. You don’t have to win a Nobel Prize! I often notice that many students set very high goals. On the one hand, everything should be analyzed, improved and packed into a framework that helps every industry and every person in Germany and, better still, the world. With these high goals, the work becomes increasingly vague in the end, since you only have 30-60 pages available. Therefore, limit the topic strongly and remember: less is more! Reading tip: Find topic…