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In more than 20 years of Copy and more, many of you pupils, students, prospective doctors, further education students, ... have stood in our store with dark circles under your eyes, bursting into tears, more than tense and helpless.
We have also learned from this experience alone and would like to provide you with a kind of "aid" or "guide" to save you all the pressure and sleepless nights in the final phase at the latest.
 
Whether it's a technical paper, term paper, bachelor's, master's or diploma thesis or dissertation, if you take the following points into account right from the start, you can sit back and relax at the end of your work when it comes to printing and binding your thesis.

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Basically

ask yourselves the questions:

  • What is the real issue?
  • What do I want to say, express with my work?
  • What is expected of my work?
  • How do I summarize the most important points?

It is helpful for this:

  • define and delimit the topic together with your teacher/lecturer:
    What absolutely belongs in your work, what is a "can" and / or "nice to have" and what should not appear in your work at all
  • What specifications or expectations are there regarding the type and scope of the elaboration?
  • What have others already done and in what form?
  • where to find important information on the subject: Internet, books, newspapers, trade journals, own experiences, interviews, experiments, ...
  • Collect, sift and evaluate information and check whether everything important is together
  • Dealing with AI: the basic principle is to first think about the topic yourself and use AI as a tool, not the other way around!
  • The AI can be very helpful when it comes to the delimitation, the outline and also the elaboration of the topic, if the "right" questions or instructions are given, but does not replace your basic understanding of the topic

Formal

Before starting your work, ask your school, university or institution, your teacher, supervisor or the examinations office about the formal requirements and specifications for your work.
You can often obtain guidelines on what to consider from the secretary's office or your department chair. Ask your supervisor about their expectations, ask your fellow students, look at the work from previous semesters.
 
 
Notes:
There are often specifications regarding the total number of pages in the work, the font to be used, font size, line spacing (usually 1.5 cm) and the print margins to be adhered to.
There are also often specifications for the design of the title page, the first few pages and the declaration of honor or affidavit, the use of AI, the date of submission, etc.
In most cases, single-sided printing in DIN A4 format and glue or book binding are required. Spiral binding is also becoming increasingly popular. The choice of paper (80 g or 100 g) is usually up to you.

Contents

it is advisable to think about the structure and organization of your work right from the start:

  • Introduction (topic, thesis, objective), main part (state of research, discussion of findings on the topic, experiments, etc.), conclusion (summary of the most important results, conclusion)
  • Work out the most important points, structure and assign headings. - Number of chapters, depth of structure, subsections
  • Important statements / assertions must be substantiated, the quotations must be identified and the corresponding authors / sources must be listed in the list of sources
  • Use of illustrations, tables and graphics. These should always have a direct reference to the text, be sufficiently explained and the axes should be labeled
  • The use of color representations should also be reconsidered:
    Colored representations are useful where the color is important for the representation and has an "explanatory value", such as in complex graphics, charts, photos.
  • It makes less sense to use colored titles and headings as well as colored logos in headers and footers or colored hyperlinks, as this increases printing costs later on

Technology

It is important to choose a suitable work tool (PC, laptop) and an IT program with which the work can best be created and any existing specifications implemented. In most cases, a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or the freely available Libre Office is suitable.
 
It is also important to have sufficient knowledge of how to use your program:
z. For example, in the creation and use of style sheets, formatting, headers and footers, automated creation of tables of contents, tables of figures and tables or the correct presentation of footnotes.
 
Check your technical capabilities and your knowledge of the program before starting your work. This will save you formatting problems, "crashes" or data loss later on.
 
 To avoid having to format everything by hand, we recommend working with a format template where you can set the required or desired formatting before you start your work.  
When choosing the font (if not specified), a font without flourishes, such as Arial, is recommended.

Print

Plan to have completed your work one week before the deadline. Then you don't have to let unexpected events (program errors, "torn" formatting, computer running slowly, crashes, virus ....) upset you.
Take time to format your work properly on the last few days - the look is also important and contributes to a good result!
 
And please remember: there are always delays, mishaps are common and correcting errors until the morning of the deadline is usually not very effective.
 
 
PDF's:
 
Kümmere dich rechtzeitig um einen PDF-Writer, der die Arbeit ohne Komprimierung in der besten Qualität in eine PDF-Datei umwandelt und achtet bitte darauf, dass das PDF in etwa die gleiche Datenmenge ausweist, wie eure Ursprungsdatei.  
  
 
Graphics, photos and illustrations
 
The quality of the graphics and photos can be easily checked on your own screen by enlarging them to 400 %: if everything is displayed sharply and without pixels, everything is fine!
 

Check

Finally, check your finished PDF print file again: 

  • Resolution of graphics, photos and illustrations as well as the display of transparencies in graphics
  • Correct page breaks and consistency of page numbers with the table of contents
  • the display of special characters and formulas
  • Are the hyperlinks uniformly displayed in black and white?
  • Are the header and footer complete and correct? Has nothing been cut off or truncated (e.g. underlines as in "g")?
  • Is the arrangement of the pagination (center or right, left) and the inserted blank pages (e.g. after the title page, possibly before new chapters, etc.) correct for double-sided printing?

Final spurt

Now upload your completed work in PDF format to an e-mail and add the following information:

  • Number of copies
  • Single-sided or double-sided printing
  • Black and white print or color (specify page numbers or "all")
  • 80 g (usual) or 100 g paper

Choice between bookbinding / metal spiral / adhesive binding

  • Color specification of the book binding (bordeaux, blue or black) OR:
  • Color specification of the metal spiral (silver, black, white, green, red or blue)
  • For metal spiral: should the transparent protective cover be glossy or matt at the front?
  • What color should the cardboard back be? OR: Perfect binding: transparent protective film on the front with white cardboard on the back

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