JOIN.bsc - Bachelor's Thesis and Seminar (summer course), 07.06.2021-31.08.2021

Grading Rubric, Style Guides, Templates, TurnItIn & Other Resources

• Grading Rubric, Style Guides, Templates, TurnItIn & Other Resources
  

  Grading Rubric, Style Guides, Templates, TurnItIn & Other Resources

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    Grading Rubric

    Bachelor thesis assessment rubric

    
    

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    Thesis Templates (LaTeX & Word doc) Page

    You will find information the Aalto Word template and a link to the Aalto LaTeX material here.
    

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    TurnItIn Practice: Check your Thesis for Plagiarism Turnitin Assignment 2

    You can submit a new text every 24 hours.
    

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    Academic Style Guides

    Vancouver referencing (or author-number referencing)

    IEEE Editorial Style Manual for Authors - http://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/IEEE-Editorial-Style-Manual.pdf) Note: The IEEE is arguably the most widely utilised of the Vancouver style guides. At only 23 pages, it points to Chicago Manual of Style for additional support on usage and grammar.
    

    IEEE Computer Society Style Guide - https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/assets/pdf/2016CSStyleGuide.pdf
    

    Harvard referencing (or author-date referencing)

    American Psychological Association
    

    Sample student paper with detailed APA explanations
    

    Sample professional paper with detailed APA explanations
    

    Detailed information about APA at Purdue OWL
    

    
    

    Chicago Manual of Style - https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
    

    Detailed information about Chicago Manual of Style at Purdue OWL

    Note: Chicago allows for both author-date (e.g. Smith, 2002) and notes & bibliography styles of citation. The latter which utilises superscript notes with in-text citations is typically not used in science and engineering, but it is used in the Arts and Humanities.
    

    
    
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    Academic Writing

    General support

    Academic Writing in English (Aalto) - http://sana.aalto.fi/awe/

    Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

    Use of Images in Theses

    Aalto Learning Centre https://libguides.aalto.fi/c.php?g=578570&p=4667673
    

    Common Issues

    Verb tense usage in scientific writing
    

    Cohesion / Topical Progression

    Formality
    

    Parallelism

    Sentence Fragments
    

    Subject-verb agreement
    

    Use of Commas

    Articles (a, an, the)