GUIDELINES FOR DISSERTATION WRITING

Your master programme ends with the submission and defence of your dissertation.
The Regulations of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies
(http://mefc.ase.ro/Media/Default/baza%20legislativa/Metodologiefinalizare.pdf)
provide the framework for this process.
In order to write a successful dissertation you need to start early and prepare for the
process. The following hints are intended as a guide to writing your
project/dissertation.
1. Thoroughly research the topic that you have chosen.
2. Make an outline of your future dissertation under the supervision of your
coordinating professor/tutor.
3. Organize and concentrate the information you have gathered so that it is relevant
to your topic. This will represent the ground for your literature review.
4. Provide an international business background for the issues you have chosen to
discuss within your dissertation. If possible provide a new or at least a personal
angle to the issue that you have chosen to address.
5. Start writing and produce a draft. Discuss the draft of your project with your
coordinating professor and internalize the feedback received. This may be a long
process requiring several re-writings.
6. Provide the written form of your dissertation when your coordinator considers it is
ready for submission.
For a better structuring of your dissertation we suggest the following framework:
in the introduction present the theme you have chosen and formulate the
problem(s) you aim to explore; also mention the solutions available to the
respective problem(s).
write a review of the relevant literature to your topic.
present the methodology of your research
to provide a creative and personal angle to your dissertation use your own
company/business or your countrys context for the theory you present.
present the conclusions that arise from the study you have conducted
provide a bibliography
In order to submit a good dissertation please take into consideration the following
criteria when editing your paper:
1. print your dissertation paper with the following format: A4 page, indentation 2 cm
up, 2 cm down, 3 cm on the left, 2 cm on the right
2. use fonts Times New Roman, size 12 for the body of the paper (you can use other
fonts to emphasize certain parts of your paper, for tables, footnotes, etc.).
3. spacing: 1 .
4. alignment: Justified
5. the disseration will be written in English. It will have: a cover sheet, a Contents
page, an Abstract (Overview), the actual dissertation, a Bibliography list and
(optional) Annexes.
6. subdivisions (chapters, subchapters, etc.) will be clearly marked and numbered
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7. no space is left before most punctuation marks (comma, full stop, colon,
semicolon)
8. all tables, figures, charts and pictures should be done in Microsoft Word and
incorporated into the body of the text within the margins. They should be placed
as close as possible to the location in the text where they are first cited. Refer to
them with a number (1, 2, etc.) above the table/figure.
9. avoid uselessly long sentences, ambiguities, or other formulations which might
result in lack of clarity
10. the dissertation should be within 50 pages, or 20,000 25,000 words (without
Bibliography/References, Annexes, etc.). It will have 2 cover sheets (in Romanian
and in English) whose templates you can find on pages 4, 5 of this document.
11. the paper will be submitted in 1 printed form and 1 electronic form (CD), at the
facultys registrar office. Deadline for submission (for which you have to have the
consent and signature of your coordinator): 2 5 June 2015. Please check the
facultys website www.rei.ase.ro for the latest information.
12. when you give in your dissertation paper you need to accompany it by a filled in
written application and 2 recent pictures (3/4 cm).

CRITERIA FOR DISSERTATION EVALUATION AND GRADING

These questions will be asked in deciding the grade of your dissertation:
1. Have you achieved an appropriate balance of theory and practical examples? Have
you used the input given during the course, does your dissertation focus on
practical examples/evidence and are the two well related?
2. Is the topic presented clearly and succinctly?
3. Is there a clear explanation of possible implications of the topic for your countrys
academic/business context, with appropriate examples?
4. Have you avoided undue vagueness and generalisation?
5. Have you quoted all the sources you used? Are all in-text citations to be found in
the Bibliography? Using information (even if it is free and public) without
acknowledging the source is still called plagiarism.

ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCURETI

Facultatea de Relaii Economice Internaionale
Programul de masterat COMUNICARE DE AFACERI N LIMBA
ENGLEZ

LUCRARE DE DISERTAIE

Conductor tiinific :
[titlu tiintific, prenume, nume]

Autor :
[Nume, prenume]

Bucureti, 2015
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ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCURETI

Facultatea de Relaii Economice Internaionale
Programul de masterat COMUNICARE DE AFACERI N LIMBA
ENGLEZ

[titlul lucrrii de disertaie]

Conductor tiinific :
[titlu tiintific, prenume, nume]

Autor :
[Nume, prenume]

Bucureti, 2015

THE BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC

STUDIES
MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH

[title of dissertation]

Supervisor:
[academic title, first name, name]

Author :
[First name, Name,]

Bucharest, 2015
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