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.
In April, you will also participate in the Science Days conference.
May 11-12: the second presentation of your master’s thesis.
May 17: the deadline to submit the full text to the research advisor.
By May 24 your research advisor will comment on the text and you will make necessary changes.
May 24 – 31: proofreading
June 1: the deadline to submit the full text for the normative control and plagiarism check. If the plagiarism check demonstrates the level of originality of less than 75 percent, and/or if you don’t pass normative control, you will have a week to make necessary changes.
June 8: the deadline to submit the final text to the reviewer.
Around June 20 – 25: the final thesis presentation and defense.
At the thesis presentation and defense, you will speak for 15 minutes (slides and handouts are compulsory). Your presentation will be followed by a question and answer session, research advisor’s talk, reviewer’s evaluation, a general discussion and your final comments. After that, members of the examination board will discuss the final grade.
Your grade will depend on results of three assessments:
research advisor’s assessment of the thesis quality, your knowledge, capacity for independent work, initiative, and the level of general and professional competencies;
reviewer’s assessment of the thesis in general, its novelty, practical value, reasoning and validity of conclusions/ recommendations, job readiness;
the examination board’s assessment of the thesis quality, your knowledge, your presentation, answers to questions and responses to reviewer’s comments.
If you disagree with the final result, you may appeal in writing to the Appeals Committee the day after the thesis presentation and defense.