Notes to Graduate Students Working on Their Theses and Projects
1. When giving me your completed proposal, please include the following:
chapter outline
copy of the questionnaire (or list of questions, if your study is not so formal) that you plan to administer (some kind of survey is usually required for theses and projects)
dummy tables for all questions in your questionnaire (A dummy table indicates how you plan to display your data, without, of course, using real numbers; ědummyî numbers may be inserted.)
2. When giving me drafts of part or all of your thesis or project, please include:
a table of contents
page numbers on all pages
notes and references put into proper (finished) format. (For electronic citations, see http://www.smpcollege.com/online/citex.html. Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is a classic style manual.)
3. In the quarter in which you intend to finish, please deliver your final draft to me no later than the eighth week of the quarter. Assume that there will be further revisions that must be made.
4. I may ask you (especially if English is not your first language) to take your approved thesis or project to the Writing Center (first floor of Cal Poly Library) for a ěcopy editî; for a modest fee, the editors there will clean up your grammar and spelling, so allow extra time for this. After the copy edit is complete and you have made the corrections, you may then print the final version for signature and binding.
5. When I sign off on your thesis or project, you may then take it to binding, but not until then. The binding deadline is usually during finalsí week, which is why you must plan your time very carefully.
Jerry Kirkpatrick
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jkirkpatrick
Bldg. 94, Room 223
(909) 869-2438
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