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Academic Work: Definition and Typical Process
Academic work is something you do, not a way of writing. Six principles, nine steps from topic to submission, and the scheduling traps that wreck a semester.
Marvin Depping
Co-Founder
Marvin Depping is the co-founder of empirio.ai. He writes about the formalities of academic work: how to cite correctly, how the German citation style differs from the Harvard citation style, how to properly reference online sources, and how a bachelor’s or master’s thesis is structured. In addition, he publishes articles on surveys in final theses – the point where formal requirements and methodology intersect.
Articles by Marvin Depping
Survey Tips
Survey for Bachelor's and Master's Thesis: Here's How
How to plan the survey for your master’s thesis so that enough usable answers come in and the methods section survives your committee.
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Citing Online Sources: APA, MLA and Chicago Examples
Web sources almost always miss something, sometimes the author, sometimes the date. Find out which details make a reference complete and how to fill the gaps in APA, MLA and Chicago.
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How to Cite a Book: APA, MLA, and Chicago Examples
A book citation is built from seven details, and most of them hide on the copyright page. We walk through each of them in APA, MLA and Chicago, including e-books and edited collections.
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German Citation Style: Footnote Referencing with Examples
German citation style runs on footnotes, a full reference at the start and a short form after that. We explain when ebd. is allowed and how the bibliography has to look.
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Harvard Style Citation: Rules, Examples and Versions
Harvard puts the source in the text, not in a footnote. We show you the patterns for books, articles and web pages, plus why no official Harvard manual exists to check against.
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How to Cite Correctly: Rules, Types of Citation, Examples
A quotation is easy to spot from the quotation marks. It is the paraphrase where the citation goes missing, even though it needs one just as much. Both sets of rules are here.
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Academic Writing Style: Tense, Voice and Using I
APA does not ban the word I. The seventh edition asks for it and rules out calling yourself the author. Here is what that changes in your methods section.
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Thesis Structure: The Required Order of Every Section
Title page, front matter, main text, appendix. The order is largely fixed, the main text is not, so we show you proven ways to organize it and where APA rules stop applying.
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