Chr. Groth

About student seminars and writing BA, MA and PhD theses
 

Students seminars

Generalities about the student seminar (05-01-2007)

On plagiarism. See also the Study Handbook:

http://www.econ.ku.dk/polit/english/internationalstudents/dokument/Student_handbook_2011-2012.pdf/
 

Hints about writing

My advice for students writing BA or MA theses

Writing research papers:

Chad Jones's recommendations: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/Advice_for_Graduate_Students.html

Daniel Hamermesh, The young economist's guide to professional etiquette, J. of Economic Perspectives, 6,1, 169-179, 1992.

David Romer´s recommendations: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Teaching_Folder/Romers_rules.html

Greg Mankiw: How to write well and Recommendations for graduate students

Hal Varian on model building: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf

John H. Cochrane: Writing tips for ph.d. students.

Michael Kremer' s recommendations: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/kremer/papers/checklist.pdf

Paul Krugman: How I work (1991), http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howiwork.html

William Thomson: Writing Papers, Rochester Center for Economic Research. Working Papers no. 417, June 1996.

In Danish: Om skriveprocessens håndværk m.m.

Den skriftlige eksamens fem bud: her

Råd vedr. skriftlige arbejder på kandidatstudiet (2003): her