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Kenneth Fjell, Professor Ragnhild Balsvik, Associate Professor Eli Heldaas Seland, Senior Academic Librarian Marianne Eskeland, Office of Academic and Student Affairs. Information meeting about independent work / master thesis August, 27th 2014. Today’s agenda. About master thesis
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Kenneth Fjell, ProfessorRagnhild Balsvik, Associate ProfessorEli Heldaas Seland, Senior AcademicLibrarianMarianne Eskeland, Office ofAcademic and Student Affairs Information meetingaboutindependentwork / master thesisAugust, 27th 2014
Today’s agenda • About master thesis - Kenneth Fjell • Practical matters • Marianne Eskeland • Advice from thefacultyon thewritingprocess • Ragnhild Balsvik • What can the library do for you during the writing process? - Eli Heldaas Seland • Guestson topics - Aksel Mjøs, Finans Bergen www.finansbergen.no - Paal Fennell, CSI - Inger G. Stensaker, FOCUS
Useful web pages Student Pages - Thesis: http://www.nhh.no/en/student-pages/thesis.aspx • The main rule is that you have to write your master thesis with one other student. • If you have different main profiles, both profiles must be satisfied by the thesis (ask advisor or relevant profile coordinators if in doubt) • Students that need or want to work alone, must apply to the Examination Office and receive pre-approval • How and when to cite sources and references. Avoid doubt about plagiarism! • Grading is on the scale A-F; set by external sensor and advisor together
English Writing Workshop • Instructor: Frank Azevedo • Professional copy editing of English-language manuscripts of all kinds • Writing workshops for several Norwegian Universities • The workshop consists of two parts: • Session 1: Principles for writing clear, concise, coherent and careful • Monday 29 September, 17:00-20:00 • Session 2: The students will work with their own texts and get feedback from the instructor • The students will be divided into two groups and this session will be held twice in order have enough time for feedback to all students • Tuesday 30 September, 17:00-20:00 and Wednesday 1 October, 17:00-20:00 • Sign up: Send an e-mail to May-Britt.Rod@nhh • Deadline: Friday 19 September • The students should bring a writing sample to the workshop • Four pages or more, double spaced, in Word on a memory stick • The writing sample should also be sent to May-Britt.Rod@nhh.no when you sign up for the workshop
Deadlines • February 15th / Application for writingthemaster thesisalone September 15th http://L2W.no/8if1 • March15th / Application for supervisor October 15 th: (All shouldapply) http://www.nhh.no/en/student-pages/thesis/applicaton.aspx • September 1st / Register for Thesis(like signing up for February 1st: an exam) at student web as ”xxxTHE” where xxx is yourmajor’sabbreviation, e.g. STR or BUS • December 20th/ Deadline for submissionofthesisJune 20th: (youmaysubmitearly. Advice: submitbeforeyou start working!)
Electronic publishing • Your thesis can be made available for all through electronic publishing • If you do not want to publish it you do not sign the agreement when you submit your thesis Information Library – homepage:http://www.nhh.no/en/library.aspx
Submission of thesis Three copies – to the Information Centre (hardcover or booklets) + Electronic submission (by midnight the same day) as PDF file: eksamenskontor@nhh.no