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MASTER’S THESIS INFORMATION MEETINGNanna RadmerStudent Counsellor for Business Communication & IT

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PROGRAMME

16.15 – 16.30 Rules and deadlinesby Nanna Radmer, student counsellor

16.30 – 17.30 Writing your thesis: Process and problemsby Anne Ellerup Nielsen, academic coordinator

17.30 – 17.40 Break

17.40 – 18.00 Corporate contactsby Marianne Skade, Aarhus BSS Career and Alumni

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All students will be automatically registered for their Master thesis 1 February (Unless a student have other special circumstances).

It is not possible to cancel the registration.

4 months to write your thesis – from 1 February to 1 June.

THE PROCESS OF THE THESIS

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After submitting your thesis – up to 6 weeks for evaluation and oral defence.

Three attempts at passing the thesis:

• If you fail: Modified thesis synopsis and a new deadline of three months begin after the date of your oral defence.

• If you postpone submission: Modified thesis synopsis and a new deadline of three months begins after the initial hand-in deadline.

(1 June à 1 September)

NB! Modified thesis synopsis has to be handed in within 1 week.

THE PROCESS OF THE THESIS

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SUPERVISIONBusiness Communication (BCOM) has a new procedure concerning academic supervisors for Master’s theses:

• The thesis process starts with you deciding on a Subject area, Methods for data collection, Methods for data analysis and a small project description.

• You should not contact potential supervisors for your thesis.

• A supervisor will be allocated to you based on the type of your project.

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Registration must be done via the Master’s thesis registration form before 1 December 2019(Can be found on the study portal).

Subject areas (choose only one)• Market Communication • Organisational Communication• Change Communication• HR Communication• Strategic Communication• Communication Management • Stakeholder Communication• Crisis Communication• Investor Relations Communication• Corporate Branding• Employer Branding

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Methods for data collection (Multiple choices possible)• Interviews• Observations• Quantitative survey• Artifacts (e.g. documents/texts/images)

Methods for data analysis (Multiple choices possible)• Content analysis (quantitative or qualitative)• Conversation analysis / micro-ethnography• Discourse analysis• Multimodal discourse analysis• Grounded theory • Narrative analysis• Quantitative analysisOr • My thesis is not based on empirical data

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OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS

Select a topic and formulating a

tentative problem statement.

Allocation of supervisor

Thesis writing & 17 hours supervision

Preparing oral defense Oral defense

Registration Deadline: December 1st

Final list posted on Blackboard

No later than December 20th

Hand-in Deadline:June 1st All the month of June Deadline: June

30thNow

If the thesis is submitted by June 1st –the oral defense is no later than June 30th

Fill “Thesis Information Form”Deadline: February 15th

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The thesis may be prepared individually or in groups of a maximum of 3 students.

Scope:• 1 student 50-80 standard pages (2.200 characters excl. spaces)• 2 students 75-120 standard pages (2.200 characters excl. spaces)• 3 students 100-150 standard pages (2.200 characters excl. spaces)

• Excl. table of contents, references, abstract, and appendices – but incl. footnotes • The abstract must be no longer than 2 standard pages• Individual oral exam: 45 min. per student• Opportunity for oral exam in groups

SCOPE OF THE THESIS

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Upload thesis:1. WISEflow2. Theses@bss (AU Library, BSS’ e-archive for digital theses)

Submission • State final English AND Danish title (Virksomhedskommunikation)• Number of characters • Number of pages• State if the project contains confidential material

HOW TO SUBMIT THE THESIS

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The study portal Check out www.studerende.au.dk/bcom for more information on your master thesis.

Remember• Regardless of what supervisor you get allocated, the process of

writing will remain the same.• Allow yourself to focus on your third semester – it might prove

helpful in your thesis.

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Workshop: Information Retrieval for Corporate Communication/ITKO Masters Students

AU Library have scheduled a series of time slots for information seeking workshops for Master’s thesis students.

The main goal of the workshops is to provide participants with the skills needed to perform literature searches for their Master’s thesis.

Please make only one submission per group, via one of the links below. You must provide some preliminary keywords before you can sign up. These keywords will form the basis for the information searches we will look

at in the workshop. If the workshop is already fully booked you may be asked to attend one of the alternative dates.

Please do not attend without first signing your group up.If you, or your group, are unable to participate in any of the dates listed, please contact Nick Atkinson at npat@kb.dk and a new workshop can be

arranged.

Wednesday 23 October 15:00 - 16:00 https://aulkalender.kb.dk/event/3418994Wednesday 30 October 15:00 - 16:00 https://aulkalender.kb.dk/event/3419015

Wednesday 6 November 17:00 - 18:00 https://aulkalender.kb.dk/event/3419016Friday 15 November 13:00 - 14:00 https://aulkalender.kb.dk/event/3419017

Wednesday 20 November 13:00 - 14:00 https://aulkalender.kb.dk/event/3419018

AU Library

QUESTIONS?

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