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Thesis writing skill for MA Artistic Research. Covers academic requirements, submission format, and literature review workflow.

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Thesis Writing Skill

Trigger

Activate when working on:

  • Thesis documents in thesis/
  • Literature review
  • Academic submission requirements
  • PDF generation for thesis

Commands

# Build thesis PDFs
cd thesis/submission && make all

Academic Submission Requirements

See thesis/academic/Abgabe.md for full details.

Teil 1: Vorbereitung

DeliverableDetails
Exposé1-2 pages, practical project description
Forschungsfrage~5 questions, choose one with most potential
Literaturrecherche~10 papers, APA format, 4-sentence summaries
MethodologieMethods description and justification

Teil 2: Dokumentation (~10 pages)

  1. Einleitung — Background, motivation (funnel: general → specific)
  2. Stand der Forschung — Literature review
  3. Methodologie — Methods, justification, ethics
  4. "Meine Forschung" — Decisions, experiments, reflection
  5. Diskussion — Summary, implications, limitations
  6. Literatur — Bibliography (APA format)

Reference Example

thesis/academic/thilos-straightA-submission/ contains A-grade example:

  • Autoethnographic methodology with video diary
  • Iterative: develop → create → reflect → refine
  • Theories: "Suspension of Disbelief", "Uncanny Valley Effect"

Literature Review Workflow

PDF Processing

PDFs in thesis/academic/texts/, extracted text in texts/extracted/.

Available texts:

  • Henke et al. (2019) — Manifest der Künstlerischen Forschung
  • Schön (1983) — The Reflective Practitioner
  • Borgdorff (2012) — The Conflict of the Faculties
  • Frayling (1993) — Research in Art and Design
  • Wall (2006) — Autoethnography
  • Ellis (2010) — Autoethnografie
  • Wesseling (2017) — Q&A

Handling Large PDFs

IMPORTANT: When "PDF too large" error occurs:

  1. Use pre-extracted .txt from thesis/academic/texts/extracted/
  2. If none exists: pdftotext "file.pdf" "extracted/file.txt"
  3. Read the .txt file instead

Progress Tracking

Check thesis/ROADMAP.md for current literature review status.