Bachelor supervision

Per Kristian Rekdal and Bård-Inge Pettersen

Spring 2023
 Agenda
Time and dates
How often? When? Where?
Important dates
Contents

Group-meetings or individual Technical Demands

supervision?
Students are very different
Word processing program Ask the students to think and write first
Word , LaTex , other? Minutes of Meeting
Principles and Limitations
OneDrive
All files on Onedrive
Standard folder structure
 Guidelines SCM200

This presentation is only a guide for the bachelor process

It is the supervisors together with the students who determine the details
 Time and Dates
Time and dates
Once every 3rd week
Where: Teams
Duration: about 1 hour for each group

Important dates
Submission date: 31st May
No oral examination
Graduation ceremony: 9th June 2023
Word processing program

MS Word
Use template for bachelor given by HiM

Optional: LaTex
No HiM-template
 OneDrive
With OneDrive we have always updated files
Standard folder structure:
 Language
Norwegian

English
We recommend English
 Contents
Abstract
Source: template Introduction
Literature review
Case description
E.g. if you use company-based case

Metodes and data

Results
Discussion
Conclusion
References
 Technical Demands
Font:
Times New Roman, 12pt
In main headlines one often uses larger fonts

Line spaces in general texts: 1.5

Reference style:
Chicago
Harvard
APA

No of words:
Depends on the specific bachelor thesis
Depends on the nature of the thesis (qualitative vs quantitative)
Discuss with supervisor
Earlier we have the following guidelines (but this is not not absolute)
2 students: 13 000 - 16 000
3 students: min 18 000 - 21 000 tidligeer
4 students: min 24 000 - max 27 000
 Students are very different
Each tutoring process is different
Student are different with respect to
Experience with academic writing
Level of knowledge from the first semesters
Level of motivation
Level of self-organizational skills / ability to work a well structured way
Expectations related to the tutoring process

Still some aspects of of the tutoring process are generic:

1) Ask the students to think and write first
Avoid that the students “throw up their cards” and ask for the solution right away
Regarding choice of topic
Regarding choice of theory and methodology
Regarding the way ahead

Always require them to do some thinking of their own first

Before each meeting:
Write an email explaining what you want to talk about and your preliminary reflections about this, before we meet
Agenda
Preliminary reflections

Writing:
We believe in the usefulness of asking students to formulate things in writing
 2) Minutes of Meeting
What do students remember after a meeting?
Written summary is very useful

MoM
Summarizing the most important elements
Links / attachments to valuable sources can be included
 3) Principles and limitations
Process:
Owned by the students
The final product should be their own
The supervisor is an assistant in this process
The requirement of email input limits the requests for additional, non-scheduled meetings

Written feedback
We provide feedback on text draft only once – usually on a complete draft towards the end of the process
We do not draft for comments if submitted later than one month ahead of the submission deadline (deadline =
31 April)
We need more of less a week to provide a feedback, and the students should have at least 3-4 weeks to make
amendments