Information for thesis writersation for thesis writers
NB Please double-check the university deadlines with the registrar's office academic calendar HU or EN as they my change.
BA and MA internal proposal submission deadline for DEAL / 2024 Autumn:
2 October (24:00)
via e-mail to
Dr. Tamás Eitler: eitler(dot)tamas(at)btk(dot)elte(dot)hu/BA proposals
Dr. Katalin Brózik-Piniel: brozik-piniel(dot)katalin(at)btk(dot)elte(dot)hu/MA proposals
Expected registrar's office deadline for BA and MA title electronic submissions:
15 October (16:00)
Please double check all not internal deadlines.
What you cannot find here is at http://seaswiki.elte.hu/
For information on submission deadlines ask the Tanulmányi Hivatal staff or find the "Hasznos tudnivalók - fontos határidők" link on this page. Check the information frequently because it may change.
• Requirements for BA thesis writers at DEAL
BA graduation information given on the SEAS homepage
Information for BA thesis writers
BA final examination
Final Exam requirements, ELTE Humanities faculty
• Requirements for MA in English Thesis writers at DEAL
Support for thesis writers at DEAL:
Our Research Seminar in English Applied Linguistics, a compulsory course for students in the AL_MA track in the second semester, is designed to help students in planning and conducting their research for the MA thesis.
SEAS policy: Please read the general requirements of SEAS (Open). Focus especially on the “Citation and plagiarism” and “Certificate of research” subsections. Definition of plagiarism:
"Plagiarism is the copying or paraphrasing of other people's work or ideas into your own work without full acknowledgement" (University of Oxford, 2006), and as such, it includes the following: (a) "Verbatim quotation of other people's work without clear acknowledgement"; (b) "paraphrasing the work of others by altering a few words and changing their order"; (c) "cutting and pasting from the Internet"; (d) collusion, that is, "unauthorised collaboration between students"; (e) "inaccurate citation"; (f) "failure to acknowledge"; (g) "professional agencies"; and (h) autoplagiarism, that is, "submit[ting] work for assessment which you have already submitted (partially or in full) to fulfil the requirements of another degree course or examination" (ibid.)."
Definition adapted from http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/epsc/plagiarism/
Please refer to the above link for more details.
• Information for OTAK thesis writers at DEAL
Additional APA materials
1. Resources for a seminar/thesis paper
Sample student paper without annotations » Link / Alternative link
For in-depth study
APA webinar (NB online recording with a glitch) » Link
2. Tables and figures
3. In-text citation
4. References section
5. Language work
• The Outstanding BA/MA thesis award at DEAL
Every summer SEAS selects eight theses submitted in that academic year, which are deemed
worthy of special attentin. The authors of these theses are distinguished by the Outstanding
Thesis Award. One award goes to a thesis writer at DEAL. The thesis is selected on the basis
of the referees' recommendation and the decision of the referees' conference.Congratulations to the award winners and their supervisors.
See the theses here.