Many German theses open with a section called Problemstellung, the statement of the problem. University guides set out what it must contain. A guide from the FOM University of Applied Sciences asks students to formulate here the questions the study will answer and to explain why they chose this research question. The goals of the work follow in a separate section. A bachelor’s thesis guide at the Free University of Berlin asks students to delimit the topic clearly in the introduction. The introduction should not anticipate the main part.