FHTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationale Medieninformatik Diplomandenseminar Wintersemester 2002/2003

There will be three seminars offered this semester on the preparation of a thesis. One seminar is an advance course for the current 7th semester, the second the normal seminar for the 8th semester. The third one, this one, is a chat-based seminar. IMI Students in the 7th and 8th semesters can choose which seminar they want to attend. Students in the 7th semester may also wait until next semester for attending a seminar. Prof. Barthel is teaching the face-to-face seminars, I am teaching the chat-based one.

I need to have stickers from everyone attending the course! If you are not in Berlin, please have a sticker sent to me as soon as possible! We will start the week before classes begin.

The seminar will take place in a teamspace chat: imi-ds

• Week 38 : Introductory chat
  The topic will be mind mapping.
• Week 39: The formal structure of a thesis (26.9.)
  Look at the FAQ before class. (Imi -> inside -> Diplomarbeiten)
• Week 40: Scientific writing (3.10.
  Please read the paper "Hinweise zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten" This is pretty much for historians ('cause my husband wrote it), but have a look. Have a look around the net for other information! For example: Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Studieren, Arbeiten und Präsentieren (Uni Rostock). This book is pretty good, too: "Studien-Arbeiten. Ein Leitfaden zur Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Betreuung von Studien-, Diplom- und Doktorarbeiten am Beispiel Informatik"
  von Marcus Deininger, Horst Lichter, Ludewig Jochen
• Week 41: (10.10.)
  We will be discussing the paper from above!
• Week 42: Presentation of purpose statements
  Each seminar participant must post their current purpose statement at least two days in advance of class. We will go through each statement together discussing what might be a problem with the statement.
• Week 43: Continuing with the purpose statements (24.10.)
  
• Week 44: Problems in Analysis
  Each student needs to be prepared to discuss the current state of the analysis in his or her project.
• Week 45: Documenting design
  We will be discussing strategies for documenting the design process which will shortly be beginning.
  
• Week 46: Preparing to write
  Each student needs to be prepared to discuss the current state of his or her project. Will we need to refocus the target at this point? What are your worries at the moment?
  How on earth am I going to get 80 pages out of this?
  A great link on correction signs can be found at http://www.mediaforum.ch/fachlexikon/masse_und_normen/korrekturzeichen.html
• Week 47: Quoting and Footnotes
  How do I do quoting correctly? Do I have to use footnotes? Why and how.
• Week 48: Showing off
  What have you got working? Show us if you can! How do you describe what is not working in your thesis?
• Week 49: Organizing the submission process
• Week 50: No Christmas party this year, sorry!
• Week 51: The New Year's Eve party is just mineral water this year!
• Week 2: Preparing for the oral examination - Tips for writing your thesis about a software topic.
• Week 3: Summing up
  

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