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This series contains theses that students have wished to make openly available. The full content is available to all, although some theses may have embargoes. If an embargo exists the date will be listed instead of the download button. The download button will appear once a thesis is no longer embargoed. To browse a fuller listing of theses from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series.

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This series contains open access dissertations that students have wished to make openly available. The full-text content is available to all, although some theses may have embargoes. If an embargo exists the date will be listed instead of the download button. The download button will appear once a dissertation is no longer embargoed. To browse a fuller listing of dissertations from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series.

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This is the PurdueThesis-template software submitted on 2024-10-23. It is the most-up-to-date PurdueThesis software. Please use this software for all schools and departments except for the School of Engineering Technology.

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The Thesis and Dissertation Office assists graduate students in the formatting, editing, and depositing of their theses. Our staff will consult with you to ensure that your thesis is ready for defense.

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For theses, the Purdue Polytechnic Institute has adopted the APA, parenthetical citation format as implemented by the university as the format for theses. For students in departmental MS programs (AT, CMT, CGT, CIT and TLI [IT]), additional information may be available on your department's graduate web site.

Formatting Your Thesis

TECH 646 (a required course for most students) assists the student in developing their proposal and therefore covers how to format the thesis. If you are not required to take that course, the following provides some guidelines you should follow to ensure your thesis is acceptably formatted.

Foremost, students should use the University Microsoft Word Thesis template which is available on the graduate school's web site . This template has styles included within it to make formatting less cumbersome. The Graduate School also holds seminars on use of the template and following the formatting requirements.

Students should NOT use the LaTeX format provided by the university. Instead, if a student desires to use LaTeX, they should use the attached template .

Note that there are a few things that the Word template will not do. Even when using the thesis template, students must:

• Ensure that they do not use vertical lines in tables.
• Properly format captions for tables and figures (including proper italics for each).
• Ensure proper tabs for each paragraph and proper hanging indents on references.

Other specifics of the format can be seen in this example document that can be used as a guide for formatting theses.

Formatting Review for Theses

Students are required to meet with the their Thesis Format Advisor at least two weeks before they defend their thesis. The last date to meet with the Thesis Advisor for a thesis formatting appointment is two weeks prior to the last day to defend the thesis. A thesis formatting appointment is mandatory. If you do not meet with the Purdue Polytechnic Thesis Advisor and get the appropriate approval signature on the Form 9, you will not graduate on time.

Thesis advisors in the Purdue Polytechnic include the following:

The Thesis Formatting Review requires the following steps:

• Scheduling the meeting to occur before the thesis defense..
• Submitting an electronic copy of the thesis via email to the Thesis Advisor two days prior to the review meeting for submission to the iThenticate plagiarism checking software.
• Attending the Thesis review meeting.

Note that the thesis format review does not apply to directed projects. Only theses are reviewed for format requirements.

Scheduling Formatting Appointment

To make a thesis formatting appointment with the Thesis Advisor you will need to email the contact shown above. Once your thesis has been approved, you may schedule your defense. It is recommended that you make your appointment early.

Providing an iThenticate Copy

Two days prior to your scheduled Thesis Advising appointment, you should email a complete copy of your thesis as a single Word or PDF document with no images to your Thesis Advisor. After receiving your document, the Thesis Advisor will submit your electronic document to the iThenticate application to verify there is no plagiarism within the document. At the Thesis Advising appointment you will be able to review the results of the check as well as receive the electronic results.

NOTE: You should bring a USB drive or other storage media with you to the Thesis Advising appoint so that you may receive a copy of the iThenticate results.

Attending the Formatting Appointment

When a student goes to the Thesis Advising meeting, she or he should bring:

• A 100% complete, unbound printed copy of the thesis.
• A digital copy on a USB drive.
• At least one copy of the GS Form 9 for Thesis Advisor to sign.

Thesis Pre-review

If a student is in doubt whether their document is formatted correctly, they may email a sample from their thesis to the Thesis Format Advisor for review and comment. “Pre-review” meetings are also a possibility but must occur before the sixth (6th) week of each semester.

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When writing a long document such as a thesis or dissertation over a sustained time period, writers may find it difficult to stay motivated and make progress. Some institutions offer “dissertation retreats” or camps for helping writers make progress. An Intensive Writing Experience (IWE) is a similar event in which a writer makes a concerted effort both to make progress on a document and to become a better writer. The writer sets aside a predetermined amount of time in order to make progress on a particular writing project, such as a dissertation.  The material here is meant to be used to conduct a Personal IWE that a writer can use when a group event such as a retreat or camp is not available.  

This section contains detailed directions for setting up a Personal IWE.  We've included vidcasts and handouts useful for a potential three-day event covering a variety of writing-related topics. Writers can view the vidcasts and read through the handouts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing. We suggest starting with the handout entitled “Conducting a Personal Intensive Writing Experience (IWE)”; this will provide details for structuring time and offers a schedule for the order of topics across a multi-day event.

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Your thesis or dissertation must comply with certain formatting guidelines.

Be sure to read the list of requirements thoroughly before you begin, and check the list carefully before you submit.

Your formatting requirements vary depending on whether your degree is conferred through IU or Purdue.

Purdue Thesis & Dissertation Requirements

Purdue graduate students have different thesis and dissertation requirements and deadlines than IU graduate students.  Please see the new Purdue-specific pages in the IU Graduate School Indianapolis website by clicking the Purdue link in the upper right corner from any page on our site - or follow the links below.   Please email [email protected] with questions or for guidance.

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The graduate school is dedicated to all the graduate students it serves and is constantly striving for improved and more efficient ways to better serve you as graduate students. With this in mind, we created the dissertation/thesis formatting template and Format Review Checklist. We strongly encourage you to use these resources at the start of your writing as they address the majority of the formatting issues that students regularly struggle with during their format reviews.

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• Why should you use the IU Graduate School Indianapolis formatting template? Check out this video .
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PurdueThesis-template

This is the PurdueThesis-template software submitted on 2024-10-23. It is the most-up-to-date PurdueThesis software. Please use this software for all schools and departments except for the School of Engineering Technology.

Please sign up for the mailing list at https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/mailman/listinfo/purduethesis-list

The home page for this software is at https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/PurdueThesis

Please take note that Overleaf SHOULD NOT be used for writing, editing, or publishing documents or research papers that contain data subject to EAR, ITAR, DFARS Clause 252.204-7012, and other controlled data designators due to the increased security required for these types of data.

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