References
1 Woodward, G. & Denton, R. (2004). Persuasion and Influence in American Life. Long Grove: Waveland Press.
2 Plato (380 BC). Gorgias. Trans. by B. Jowett. Retrieved from http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/gorgias.html (accessed September 27, 2016).
3 Aristotle (350 BC). Rhetoric. Trans. by R. Roberts. Retrieved from http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html (accessed September 27, 2016).
The following table from Cambridge Academic English gives a clear outline of the APA style of referencing:
For an online book, give the name of author(s), the publication year, the title (in italics). Then write “Retrieved from”, give a URL address and put the date you accessed the source in brackets, like in the sample references above.
If you refer to a web source without an author, give the name of publication/ web source, the publication year (if available), the title of the page/ article (in italics), write “retrieved from” with a URL address and put the date you accessed the source in brackets:
Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab (2015). Reference List: Electronic Sources (Web Publications). Retrieved from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ (accessed September 27, 2016).
You can learn more about citing web sources if you follow the link in the example.
4 Schedule
By October 1: discuss the thesis title, the research question and your hypothesis with the research advisor.
By October 15: prepare a plan of your thesis and discuss it with your research advisor.
By December 30: study most sources for the “theoretical part” of your thesis and prepare a draft version of Part 2. You are free to incorporate your last year’s course paper in this part, if your research advisor approves it. The more reading and thinking you do this semester, the better.
February – March: during your internship, collect materials for the “practical part” of your thesis and do the research. After the first four weeks (early March), you will have to submit a report on internship, after the last four weeks (early April), you will have to submit an analytical report, which will become a draft version of your “practical part”.
Early April: presentation of reports prepared during the internship and the first presentation of your master’s thesis.
April – May: you will have almost two months to complete the text of your thesis. The full text should be ready and approved by the research advisor by June 1.
Early June: the second presentation of your master’s thesis and the normative control: your thesis should exactly match the MISIS requirements. After that, the thesis will be reviewed by an expert.
Around June 20 – 25: final thesis presentation and defense.