Entirely online, details will be communicated.

Students need to write up a document in which they specify the focus, research question, approach, structure, and working plan for their master thesis and later improve their projects according to feedback from faculty and peers.

The course enables students to

• Develop and extended research proposal or work-in-progress research project summary 
• Practice academic writing
• Receive and build on comments from a critical audience
• Review and evaluate someone else’s research project

This semester, there are no attendance requirements.

In an introductory session, the professors will provide input and introduce the course design and logic.

The students need to write up a document in which they specify the focus, research question, approach, structure, and working plan for their master thesis and later improve their project according to feedback from faculty and peers.

In addition, every student will provide structured feedback on another thesis project and write up a "lessons learned" document.

The course design resembles professional reviewing processes that is run in academia when scholars submit their papers to scientific journals for potential publication. It is a great format for giving authors input on their papers. Thus, it is a great format for giving you input on the students' master thesis project.

1. Write-up of own thesis project: 60%

2. Write-up of feedback on other student's project (20%)

3. Write-up of lessons learned (20%)

Specific evaluation criteria are discussed during the introductory session.

The thesis supervision agreement form is required to be uploaded on Learn.

As exceptional cases and being subject to the availability of places, also students that have not yet started or already finalized their project are accepted.

phillip.nell@wu.ac.at