Thesis Writing

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

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.