This part of the site is intended to help you with your studies. Please make use of the relevant documents and kindly be sure to have read through Advice on Writing Academic Essays in English and the Style Sheet before turning in your paper. Thank you.
Do you need help writing your thesis?
Please join us for our meetings of the thesis support program. Students of didactics, linguistics, and literary and cultural studies are all welcome.For more information please contact: BAsupport@anglistik.uni-giessen.de.
Alternatives to Writing a Term Paper
Example of a creative approach to critical media analysis by Eileen Willweber and Judith Pech: Mindmap , Imaginary_Transcript , Mood_Board
Demonstration of the importance of types of music in TV interpretation by Stephanie Lotzow: Music and Manipulation: A Sound Experiment (SS 2015)
Example of a portfolio by Dorothea Seibert for the Lecture “From Proto-Feminism to Queer Studies and Beyond” (WS 2015/16)
Example of two very fine reading journals, one by Ina Alexandra Machura for the Seminar “Law and Literature” (SS 2012), and one by Yvonne Zeiss for the Seminar “Migraton/Law/Gender” (WS 2016/17)
Example of a Multimedial Reading Journal (picture 1, picture 2, picture 3, picture 4, picture 5) by Dilini Algama for the Seminar “Gendering Television Series” (SS 2013)
Please see the Student Work page for examples of other types of projects students have done for credit.
Preparing For Your Exam in Literary and Cultural Studies
Preparing For Your Exam in Literary and Cultural Studies
Sample Literature Lists
Sample Literature List with Three Topics
Sample Literature List for Oral Exam
Sample Exam For a BA Course
Essay Advice
Writing Academic Papers in English – A Guide for German BA Students
Style Sheet (Updated 15 April 2015)
New Style Sheet for the Department of English, JLU
