This document provides guidelines for a term paper, including important dates, facts, design specifications, and tips. Students must submit their term paper application by November 15th, which requires their supervisor and program head's signatures. The final paper is due April 24th and must be uploaded online. Papers will be evaluated using a review form and checked for plagiarism. The paper should be 1.5 author sheets (30 pages) following a specific format. The introduction should provide context and goals, while the body will cover theory, research, analysis, results, and conclusion. Strict citation guidelines must be followed to avoid plagiarism.

1. Term Paper
Guidelines

2. Important dates
• Deadline for Term paper application submission – November 15, 2014
– signature of the supervisor
– signature of the head of the program
• The title and the supervisor may be changed not later than February 24,
2015
• Deadline for the final full text of the Term paper presentation to the
supervisor – March 24, 2015
• Deadline for completed Term paper submission – April 24, 2015
– Submission is made by uploading the file into the system in your personal
cabinet at http://www.wehse.ru
• Term paper defense – during the period from the third Thursday of May
2015 to the first Thursday of June 2015

3. Important facts
• Size of the Term paper – 1,5 author’s sheets (1 author’s sheet = 40000
typographical units with spaces) ------- 30 pages
• The Term paper will be evaluated in the Term paper Review form, filled
out by the supervisor
• The Term paper will be checked by the Anti-Plagiarism program
• Bibliography (different standards)
– Campbell, W.C. & Ballou, S.V. (1990). Form and Style: Theses, Reports,
Term Papers
– Porter M.E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. N.Y.: Longman, 1990.
246 p.

4. Design
• Font – Times New Roman, size 14
• Interval – 1,5
• Margins:
• Left – 35 mm
• Top & bottom – 20 mm
• Right – no less than 10 mm

5. Tips to follow
• Cover less material very well rather then more material only
moderately well. Less is the new more.

6. Title
• Pick a title as early as possible and revise it as you go; try to be
focused even with the title
• Be specific: title should give the reader a good idea of what they
will find in the paper
• Put most important words at the beginning
• Find balance between length (too long is clumsy) and specific
information (too vague is not effective)

7. Contents
• Introduction
• Theoretical Aspects: Theory and Previous Research on the
Topic
• Analytical part: Method and data analysis / Case Study
• Results and ways of problem solving
• Summary and Conclusion
• References
• Appendices

8. Structure: Intro
• Indicate some context and motivation (why is this topic interesting to
you)
• Relevance, timeliness, significance of the topic
• Touch briefly the missing pieces of the state of knowledge
• Object, subject and main goals
• Tasks / activities
• Methodology
• Summarize what the rest of the paper will discuss and bottom-line
conclusion
• Not more that 3 pages

9. Theory and Previous Research
• Describe the existing studies on the topic (background)
• Identify weaknesses or omissions in the studies

10. Data analysis
• Statistics, surveys, case studies

11. Results
• Problems solved
• Findings
• Directions for further research

12. Citing references
• (1) If a citation in your text refers to a whole study, it should give
the author's name and the year of publication. (Hofstede 1989)
• (2) If a citation in your text refers to a particular idea or statement
in a study, it should give the author's name, the year of
publication and the page number(s) where this idea can be found.
(Hofstede 1989:15-17)

13. Citation in the Text
• Single author
– Kirby (2003) has explored the metaphor of managing diversity....
– In a study (Kirby 2003) the metaphor of managing diversity coping was
investigated....
• Organization as author
– The National Research Council (NRC) (1989) has found that...
– ... premature death ... is diet-related (National Research Council 1989).
• Two authors
– In Write for business by Johnson and Swift (2000) ...
– High levels of job performance and job satisfaction occur when … (Goris and
Johnson 2000:348).
• Three to six authors
– (Putnam, Phillips and Chapman 1996:35-40) the first time the study is referred to
– ... (Putnam et al. 1996:41) in subsequent references
• More than six authors
– Warner et al. (1995:5) define design as … the name of the first author followed by et al.
• No author
– ...(Enlarging the EU 2002:28) two or three first words of the title

14. Plagiarism
• Copying a paragraph as it is from the source without any
acknowledgement. (Plagiarism)
• Copying a paragraph making only small changes, such as replacing a
few verbs and adjectives with synonyms. (Plagiarism)
• Cutting and pasting a paragraph by using the sentences of the original
but leaving one and two out, or by putting one or two sentences in a
different order. (Plagiarism)
• Composing a paragraph by taking short standard phrases from a
number of sources and putting them together with some words of your
own. (Plagiarism?)
• Paraphrasing a paragraph by rewriting with substantial changes in
language and organization, amount of detail, and examples.
(Acceptable practice)
• Quoting a paragraph by placing it in block format with the source cited.
(Acceptable practice)