B.Sc. and M.Sc. Theses Writing Checklist
Find below a list of the most common mistakes made by our students. A more comprehensive list can be found here WritingChecklist.
MAKE SURE TO DISCUSS WITH YOUR ADVISOR WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO GET 1.0! IT IS YOUR JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU REALLY MEET OUR EXPECTATIONS.
Section Heads and Titles
- Either use American "A Really Awesome Thesis" or British "A really awesome thesis" and stick with it throughout the thesis. Do not mix.
Writing
- Never place a comma before that
- Never use This 'alone', i.e., "This is stupid!" should be "This $SUBJECT is stupid!"
Equations
- Only add equation numbers if you also refer to them in the text
- Never use the \frac command in inline equations
- Never finish a section (or sub- or subsub sections) with an equation
Figures
- All figures should be floating and have a long caption
- No pixelized graphics. Seriously consider using tikz.
- Do not use figures from other people without permission
Thesis Submission Checklist
Please make sure that you have complied with all these points.
You must submit two physical copies of the thesis to the student office.
Due to Covid it is currently sufficient to send the "Erklärung zur Abschlussarbeit" to the student office, see here
- You can hand it in person during office hours, or at the main gate in the old main building (S1/03) outside office hours.
- In addition, you must submit a digital copy to TUbama.
- For more information, have a look at at this page.
- Your thesis has to have your real signature under "Erklaerung der X Arbeit".
- Make sure it arrives in time!
- Check whether your thesis contains any of the mistakes in Writing Checklist.
Defence Presentation Checklist
- The defence must be scheduled within six weeks of the thesis hand-in date
Templates
You can install the tuddesign globally but you don't have to and it is not recommended.
Local installation (easy)
Thesis
- Use our template (or use this Overleaf Template)
Please pull the thesis repository recursively- You need a texlive installation
Presentation
- Use our template
Please pull the beamer repository recursively- You need a texlive installation
Global installation (hard)
Follow this instruction to install the tuddesign.For Ubuntu, follow these instructions and not these.For macOS, this page may be helpful: link- There is a new TU Design available here
How to use them with LyX?
1. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/layouts or .lyx/layouts.
2. Add 'tudexercise.layout' as
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[tudexercise]{article (TU Darmstadt)}
Input article.layout
3. Add 'tudreport.layout' as
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[tudreport]{report (TU Darmstadt)}
Input scrreprt.layout
4. Reconfigure in LyX.
They will now be available in Document Settings.