Thesis Guidelines

THESIS GUIDELINES

Students preparing their graduate thesis should download the Thesis Guidelines using the link below. Please review the guidelines carefully and prepare your thesis according to the instructions given in the guide.

Download Guidelines (PDF Document)

Before submitting your final thesis to the Graduate School, first submit your final draft as approved by your committee on inexpensive copy paper (you may also email it). It will be reviewed for formatting errors and returned to you for corrections.

Once your final thesis is approved by the Graduate School:

Submit two copies on 50-100% cotton (20-24 lb weight).
Include contact information, e.g. email address and home or cell phone numbers.
Include two approval pages signed by your committee on the same quality paper.
Make sure you have included two Permission to Use forms and that you have signed them.

You may submit additional approval pages for your personal copies which will be signed by the Dean of the Graduate School and returned to you.

Personal copies can be arranged to be bound with the library binding office. There is a $16 fee for personal copies and they can be mailed to you for an additional $5.

*For help with page numbers in Microsoft Word 2008 click here*

Right aligning the page numbers on your Table of Contents

Using Microsoft WORD

On the Format menu, click Tabs.
Under Tab stop position, type 6.0 as the position for a new tab.
Under Alignment, select 'right' alignment for text typed at the tab stop.
Under Leader, click the leader option number 2, and then click Set.
If you haven't yet typed your Table of Contents start typing it and press the tab key after you type your content item. The dot leader will go to the 6.0 margin automatically. Once there, just type in your page number and it will self-adjust to be right aligned at the margin.
If you have already typed your Table of Contents and you want to get it looking a bit nicer then take the following steps:
1. select your whole table of contents, then complete steps 1 through 4 listed above
2. place your cursor in front of your page number and backspace to delete all your dots
3. press the tab key and the dot leaders and your page numbers will be automatically aligned
4. You will need to do this with each line item in your Table of Contents.

If you find that the right margin isn't quite where you would like it, repeat steps 1 through 4 above, but change the Tab stop position to something more appropriate. Anything higher than 6.0 will be closer to the right edge of the page, and anything less than 6.0 will be further from the right edge of the page.

Now you're finished; click "Ok" and you're on your way to a perfectly aligned Table of Contents.



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