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  • Use standard forms of courtesy, including at least a greeting and a closing with your name.
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Theses

1

Supervision Request

The chair welcomes applications for thesis supervision. You can apply for supervision during the following periods each year:

January 1–15

May 15–31

October 15–31

Please complete the

application form

and send it along with a current transcript of records to

team-kessing@uni-siegen.de

Please note that, due to the currently high number of theses, we may not be able to accommodate all supervision requests.

2

Decision

You will be notified within two weeks (after the application period ends) whether the chair can supervise your thesis. 

3

Registration

Afterwards, you must register your thesis with the examination office in due time here, within two weeks before the agreed start date.

 

Helpful Tips

You can find all required information in the applicable examination regulations. 

Before starting your thesis, you should already have some experience in writing seminar papers. We also recommend taking a course on academic writing. Further information is available upon request during your first meeting with your supervisor.

For writing seminar papers and theses in LaTeX, we recommend using Overleaf. Overleaf is a browser-based LaTeX editor that can be used free of charge and does not require any software installation.

To help you get started, we provide a LaTeX demo template on Overleaf that follows our Guidelines for Writing Academic Papers. The template includes a title page, examples of citations, figures, tables and equations, as well as a declaration of independent work.

Open the template using the link below and create your own copy via Menu → Copy Project. You can then freely edit your copy without changing the original template.

Click here to open the LaTeX demo template on Overleaf.

On this page, the Team Digitale Lehre at the University of Siegen provides central information, guidelines, and current projects on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in studying, teaching, and administration.

 

Below you can find the Faculty’s guidelines on the use of AI in academic writing.

The University Library provides a wide range of electronic resources to support your literature search.

A database frequently used by researchers is Google Scholar.

Please remember to use your VPN client when accessing licensed databases and full-text electronic journals provided by the University Library from off campus.

We recommend using reference management software. For example, the University Library provides all students with a full version of Citavi Pro. Alternatively, you can use the freely available reference management software Zotero.

Citavi allows you to import references from websites quickly and easily and to compile them into an alphabetically sorted bibliography. Using Citavi can therefore save a considerable amount of time.

The University Library regularly offers courses on how to use Citavi. However, the software is largely self-explanatory.