For bachelor thesis writing

Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University

BA programs

GUIDELINE

FOR BACHELOR THESIS WRITING

PREFACE
The purpose of this thesis writing guideline is to clarify, simplify, and promote excellence in Bachelor’s diploma thesis writing and presentation. This guideline describes the important requirements for maintaining the uniformity of these theses at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University.

INTRODUCTION TO GUIDELINE
This guide describes the style and format regulations to guide BA program students at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University students in preparing a satisfactory thesis or dissertation.

GENERAL GUIDELINES AND PARTS OF THE THESIS
Every thesis should include following main parts or divisions: the preliminary pages, introduction, 3 main chapters, conclusion, and the reference parts.

All tables, figures and formulas should be electronically generated by using a word processor or relevant software. Figures that cannot be generated electronically should be manually drawn subject to technical drawing principles. All tables and figures should be cited within the main body of the thesis.

Laser or ink-jet printer outputs are required. All print must be in permanent black ink and must appear on only one side of the paper. No ink corrections, strikeovers, correction fluid, correction tape, paste-ups, insertions between lines, or letterset are permitted on the final bound copies. If any corrections are needed, they should be made on the original manuscript and the corrected pages must be reprinted before making copies of the thesis.

To be able to start with your work on your thesis at the beginning of your fourth year, you should start finding an appropriate topic and advisors in October of your third year of study. To get an idea about topics other students worked on, discuss with their supervisor in late March where this year’s thesis students present their work.

When students start to searching topic, they should address the following issues:

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  What is the topic you want to research?
  
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  What is the initial situation and what is the problem?
  
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  What is the relevance of the problem?
  
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  Where do you expect to be at the end of your Bachelor's thesis?
  
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  How do you intend to close the current gap?
  
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  Are there already comparable solution approaches and where are they documented?
  

The thesis should be written in English according to study language rules. Total number of pages for Bachelor diploma thesis should be between 40-50 pages. The list of reference and appendices are not included to the minimum requirement of number of pages.

Note: All students are responsible to respect deadline that is given by their supervisors.