Use these checklists to improve your thesis or dissertation
Overview of all checklists to improve your thesis or dissertation.
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Example APA Style: Patent
The reference of a patent is different from the normal APA Style. The APA reference for a patent consists of four parts: the name of the inventor, the year in which the patent is requested, the unique patent identification number and the name of the patent office.
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Example APA Style: Conference paper
Proceedings are contributions to scientific conferences, congresses, symposiums or meetings. They often are published bundled and are formally published in a book or in periodicals. This represents a report about what has been discussed during a particular conference. The APA Style has specific rules for the notation of proceedings or conference papers.
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Example APA Style: Press release
According to the APA Style you can handle the reference of a press release in the same way as a normal internet source. After the title you should add ‘press release’ in square brackets.
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Example APA Style: Oration
The oration is a speech given by the professor, when he or she takes office.
When you want to refer to an oration according to the APA Style , you first have to find out if the oration is published or not.
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Example APA Style: Commercial Radio/TV
The reference of a commercial from radio/TV according to the APA Style is different from the one for a Radio/TV-show.
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Example APA Style: Radio/Tv-show
When using information from a radio or TV show, you always have to add the producer of the show to your reference. The producer can normally be found on the website of the show. The APA Style for a radio/TV-show is different from the one for a commercial.
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Example APA Style: Forum post
When using a message or post from a forum or online discussion group, you have to take the following APA Style into account.
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Example APA Style: Dissertation of another student
You can use other theses as a source for your own dissertation. Take into account that theses often still contain mistakes and are not always a reliable source. So don’t base your dissertation too much on other theses. According to the APA Style you also have to add to your reference that it is a dissertation of another student.
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Example APA Style: Statistic database
When using specific data for your dissertation, it is important to know how a dataset (e.g. from Datastream) has to be recorded according to the APA Style. In that case you use the notation for a normal internet source and write ‘dataset’ after the title in square brackets.
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