Hints for Writing a Seminar Report, a Papers, or a Thesis

Studies at a university to a large degree involves passive, reproductive activities that often require little creative work by the students. Most study programs contain only few opportunities, apart from theses and seminars, to practice the independent writing of longer texts. However, this particular skill is of significant importance for a later scientific or industry carreer, for example for writing reports or conference papers. It is therefore in your own interest to make best use of the few existing opportunities of training this skill at a university. This document, on one hand, will give you hints for your report and, on the other hand, serves as a meta document that demonstrates what such a text may look like. You can and should also use it as a template for writing your own report. Furthermore, the LaTeX source code of this report can be used to get started in writing LaTeX.