If you would like to use these documents as Microsoft. Please be aware that using LaTEX does not remove your responsibility to make changes to your formatting when asked to do so by the Graduate School. Please be sure that you know how to customize your class files when using LaTEX for formatting. Please be careful when using existing templates you may have received from colleagues.
Many templates do not have the correct formatting. Always check final documents prepared with templates against the published manual. The first scenario is the most common, followed by the second depending on how closely related the majors are.
You can also pick a non-major area of honors. If you were admitted to the Honors College after your first year or via the Liberal Arts Paterno Fellows program, you are expected to write your thesis for honors in your entrance major. You do have the right to pursue honors elsewhere, for instance in a concurrent major for which you were not admitted to the Honors College, but there is no guarantee of approval.
Typically, the area of honors suggested by the topic aligns with the professor's affiliation, as when you seek honors in history based on a history thesis supervised by a professor of history. But if the supervisor happens to be a professor of literature, you are still able to pursue honors in history based on the substance and methodology of the thesis. This is especially worth remembering in the life sciences, where faculty expertise is spread among many different departments and colleges.
As always, the honors adviser in the intended area of honors is the gatekeeper for whether a given thesis topic and supervisor are acceptable. The thesis proposal does not require a timetable, but you and your supervisor should have a clear idea of how much you should accomplish on a monthly basis all the way through completion. Not all of those monthly benchmarks will be actual written work; for many Schreyer Scholars the write-up will not come until toward the end.
If you fall behind during the earlier part of the thesis timeline, it will be difficult if not impossible to make up that ground later. You should take proactive steps against procrastination by making yourself accountable to someone other than yourself. Scheduling regular meetings or e-mailing regular updates with your thesis supervisor — even if you are working in the same lab routinely — is the best way to do that.
You should also regularly update your thesis honors adviser. Think ahead, preferably well before the time of your thesis proposal, about what your thesis work will mean for your fourth-year schedule. There are many reasons to plan to include the summer between third and fourth year in your research timeline: those mentioned above, plus the benefit of devoting yourself full-time to the thesis, whether it is in a lab on campus or in the field.
Funding opportunities for full-time summer thesis research include Schreyer Honors College grants , the Erickson Undergraduate Education Discovery Grant , and funding via your thesis supervisor especially in the sciences and engineering.
In addition to this guide, many departments and colleges have thesis guides with important information about their deadlines and expectations. If you do not see your college or department listed, consult with your honors adviser.
The formatting requirements in this guide apply to all Schreyer Honors theses. Please follow the thesis templates provided below:. Reduced type may be used within tables, figures, and appendices, but font size should be at least point in size and must be completely legible. The majority of your thesis document should be in black font, however, color is permissible in figures, tables, links, etc.
Begin each section on a new page. Do the same with each element of the front matter, the reference section, and the appendix. Try to avoid typing a heading near the bottom of a page unless there is room for at least two lines of text following the heading.
Instead you should simply leave a little extra space on the page and begin the heading on the next page. If you wish you use a "display" page a page that shows only the chapter title at the beginning of chapters or appendices, be sure to do so consistently and to count the display page when numbering the pages. Excluding the title page and signatory page, every page in the document, including those with tables and figures, must be counted.
Use lower case Roman numerals for the front matter and Arabic numbers for the text. The text or body of the thesis must begin on page 1.
Follow the template provided at the top of this section. Use the template provided as a pattern for creating your title page. Be sure all faculty members are identified by their correct professional titles. Check with the department for current information. Do not use such designations as "PhD" or "Dr. Please submit your final thesis to your Thesis Supervisor and Honors Adviser at least two weeks prior to the final submission due date to allow them ample time for review and suggested changes.
Also, please communicate with your professors to find out their schedule and preferred amount of time to review your thesis. Once your thesis is submitted, your committee will review the thesis one last time before giving their final approval. A minimum of two approvals is required on each thesis. If one of the approvers has a dual role e. Thesis Supervisor and Honors Adviser , then list both roles under the professional title.
Do not list the same person twice. If the sharing of roles leaves you with fewer than the required number of approvals, an additional approver must be added Faculty Reader. Be sure to identify all faculty by their correct professional titles. This is a one-paragraph summary of the content of your thesis that identifies concisely the content of the thesis manuscript and important results of your project.
Some students like to think of it as an advertisement — i. Keep it short and include the most interesting points. There is no restriction on the length of the abstract, but it is usually no longer than one page.
The table of contents is essentially a topic outline of the thesis and it is compiled by listing the headings in the thesis. You may choose to include first-level headings, first- and second-levels, or all levels. Keep in mind there usually is no index in a thesis, and thus a fairly detailed table of contents can serve as a useful guide for the reader.
The table of contents must appear immediately after the abstract and should not list the abstract, the table of contents itself, or the vita. Be sure the headings listed in the table of contents match word-for-word the headings in the text. Double check to be sure the page numbers are shown. In listing appendices, indicate the title of each appendix.
If using display pages, the number of the display page should appear in the table of contents. An honors thesis manuscript should replicate the appearance of professional writing in your discipline.
Include the elements of a formal piece of academic work accordingly. For specific questions on organization or labeling, check with your thesis supervisor to see if there is a style guide you should use.
Acknowledgements are not a required component of an honors thesis, but if you want to thank particular colleagues, faculty, librarians, archivists, interviewees, and advisers, here's the place to do it. You should include an acknowledgements page if you received a grant from the University or an outside agency that supported your research.
A table is a columnar arrangement of information, often numbers, organized to save space and convey relationships at a glance. A rule of thumb to use in deciding whether given materials are tables or figures is that tables can be typed, but figures must be drawn. A figure is a graphic illustration such as a chart, graph, diagram, map, or photograph. Please be sure to insert your table or figure. Do not copy and paste. Once the figure or table is inserted, you right click on it to apply the appropriate label.
Afterwards, return to the list of tables or list of figures page, right click on the list, and "update table entire table " and the page will automatically hyperlink. Each table and each figure in the text must have a number and caption. Number them consecutively throughout, beginning with 1, or by chapter using a decimal system. Place a table or figure immediately after the first mention of it in the text — on the same page if there is room, or on the following page.
Tables or figures of peripheral importance to the text may be placed in an appendix. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text by number, not by a phrase such as "the following table.
Style Guides These parts of the thesis will vary in format depending on the style guide you are following. Whichever style you are using, stick to the rules and be consistent. If you have the possibility, you give the work to someone to read. Otherwise, read it on your own closely and eliminate fallacies. Tip: to spot errors easily, examine your textual content aloud, and take breaks between essay writing, modifying, and proofreading.
Don't rely absolutely on spelling checkers. They are far from foolproof. Spell checkers have a restricted dictionary. Grammar checkers can be even extra complicated.
These programs work with a constrained number of policies. Step 1: Reread your instructions, query, and rubric, so you can technique the project with readability about your ambitions and motive. Step 2: Use the checklists beneath as a start line to refine your work. Home Sidebar. Hope everyone enjoys!
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