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Facharbeit: Structure

This page was translated from German with AI. It has not been checked by a native speaker. Original page in German

A Facharbeit (a longer written school paper) has fixed parts in a fixed order: from the title page through introduction, main part and conclusion to the bibliography and the declaration of independent work. Here you get to know them – and how to divide chapters properly.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

The video

This video needs no program. It is the opening of the series; in the next parts you put everything into practice step by step in the word processor.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:25 The parts
  3. 1:00 Introduction, main part, conclusion
  4. 1:33 Outline
  5. 2:06 Declaration and aids
  6. 2:26 The series

The most important points

The parts of a Facharbeit in their order.
The parts of a Facharbeit in their order.

Outline

1 – 1.1 – 1.1.1: three levels at most. If you write a subchapter 1.1, you also need 1.2. Title page, lists, appendix and declaration get no chapter number.

The introduction names the topic, the research question and the approach, the main part answers the question, the conclusion gives the answer – without new content. Introduction and conclusion together are about a fifth of the paper.

Decimal outline: chapter, subchapter, section.
Decimal outline: chapter, subchapter, section.

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The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). If there is a practice file, you download it above and work in your own word processor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

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Try it yourself

Task

An outline reads: 1 Introduction · 2 Basics · 2.1 The pendulum · 3 Experiment · 4 Conclusion · 5 Bibliography. What is wrong?

Show solution

2.1 stands alone – either add 2.2 or leave out the subdivision. And the bibliography gets no chapter number.

Keep learning with a language model

You are my teacher and help me with my Facharbeit (a longer school paper). My topic is: [enter topic]. Help me find a good research question by asking me questions – do not write it for me. Then check my outline: three levels at most, no single subchapters, introduction, main part, conclusion.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in LibreOffice (in the browser, with Collabora Online), which checked after every step that the setting was really saved. The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.