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Formatting the Thesis

Thesis styles.

The University of Delaware has developed styles for formatting a thesis. If you are using Microsoft Word or LaTeX to write your thesis, you need to download the style files and write the thesis in the correct file, to ensure that it is formatted correctly. If you are using Microsoft Word and struggling with the styles, please contact Adam at [email protected]. If you are using LaTeX, please contact your department.

Styles  For Microsoft Word

Styles  for latex, links to help you get started, samples of past theses, guide to using latex, videos from past formatting sessions, powerpoint from past formatting sessions, format review.

Students must attend a format review with Undergraduate Research Program staff to receive instructions for final submission and the bond paper you need to print your title page, signature approval page, and abstract upon. At the review, staff will sit and go through parts of your thesis document with you to make sure it is formatted correctly and nothing stands out as a problem. Please schedule your formatting review ideally 2 – 3 weeks before your thesis defense.

Formatting Tips

Pop out the styles.

For easier access to the styles in Microsoft Word, click open the “Home” tab. Over in the section on the home tab, look for “styles.” Below “change styles” there should be a small pop-down arrow. Clicking the arrow will pop out a tool box where styles are easier to view. If not all styles are available there, click “Options…” at the bottom of the Styles tool box. It will open “Style Pane Options” and in the drop down box below “Select styles to show:” choose “All.” This will give you everything (and probably more than you need)!

Formatting the Signature Page

In addition to your thesis committee, your Signature Page must have a space for a fourth signature. Our office will get this signature for you. You are responsible only for your thesis committee’s signatures.

Fourth signature for DWD: Michael Chajes, Ph.D. Chair of the University Committee on Student and Faculty Honors

Fourth signature for HDWD: Earl Lee II, Ph.D. Director, University Honors Program

Also, make sure to put in your committee’s names and departments in the appropriate spaces on the Signature Page (otherwise it will read like “department of department name” and silly things like that).

Formatting the Title Page

Your title page will list your degree. Use these guidelines:

• Bachelor of Arts in Art Conservation with Distinction
• Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with Distinction
• Honors Bachelor of Arts in History with Distinction
• Honors Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with Distinction Engineering
• Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with Distinction Honors
• Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with Distinction

Any students who are confused on what degree to put and/or unsure of the proper program title should contact either their thesis director or our office.

Leader dots

Leader dots are a kind of tab.

• Access the Paragraph dialogue box (button to the right of the word ‘Paragraph’ in the Home menu).
• In the lower left hand corner, select ‘Tabs…’ Now you have the Tabs dialogue box and can set specific kinds of tabs.
• The ‘Tab stop position’ tells the tab how far to go over. Set this to about 5.5 inches. Choose ‘right’ alignment.
• Select Option 2 for ‘leader’ (…..).
• Click ‘Set’ then ‘Okay.’

Advanced: The process gets more complicated when you have several different kinds of tabs on one line. Say, a tab to enter spaces between the ‘1’ and ‘INTRODUCTION’, and then a tab for the leader dots. If the tabs stop working and you can’t set up the different kinds of tabs you want, just cheat and enter spaces. Use the ‘show code’ button (¶) and enter the same number of spaces each time.

Troubleshooting: If you have several tab stops set, and it’s not working, click ‘Clear all’ and then reenter the specific tabs you need.

Previous version of Word: The steps are the same, but the Tab dialogue box is under the Format menu.

Section Breaks

Section breaks are good for when you want to have one page show up landscaped, but everything else in portrait mode. Section breaks tell Word that you are creating a new section of your document, which might have different kinds of formatting than the rest of the document. You can use section breaks to have different kinds of page numbers throughout your document or have one landscaped page among portrait pages.

• Go to the ‘Page Layout’ menu.
• Go the ‘Page Setup’ menu.
• Go to Breaks (upper right hand corner).
• ‘Next page’: Inserts a section break and starts the new section on the next page (this works for doing page numbers)
• ‘Continuous’: Inserts a section break and starts the new section on the same page

To have a single landscaped page (for, say, an oversized figure or table), you will need two section breaks (next page). Insert one on the page before the figure and one on the same page. Then change the orientation for that page to landscaped. Sometimes the page numbers will re-start at 1 when you do this; go into “Format Page Number” and select “continue from previous section.”

Page Numbers

• The first two pages of your Thesis have no numbers.
• The third page is page ‘iii’
• The rest of your front matter is also in roman numerals
• The body of your thesis starts with ‘1’

You do this by setting up section breaks.

• Add in section breaks (see above). Put a section break after the Approval Page and after the last page of your Front matter. Make sure it is a Section Break and not just an Page Break.
• Go to the Insert menu, and select ‘ Page Number’
• Select ‘Bottom of the page,’ ‘Plain number 2’ (centered number)
• Go to page iii. Double-click on the number (now you have options and menus)
• At the top menu, unselect Link to Previous. This is very important! You are now telling Word that the page numbers in your sections are different.
• On the left, access ‘Page Number’ > ‘Format Page Numbers.
• This is a dialogue box where you can select the style of numbers (roman or arabic) and even select which number it should start with (such as ‘iii’)
• You should now have pages numbered 1, 2, iii, etc.
• Go to the first section (your Title and Approval pages). Just delete the page numbers. This won’t affect the rest of the document because you’ve turned off ‘link to previous.’
• Go to the first page of the body of your thesis. Open up the ‘Format Page Numbers’ dialogue box, set it to arabic numerals and starting with 1.

General Formatting Tips

• Make sure you’re on the correct side of the Section Break line
• Make sure it’s a section break and not just a page break.
• Make sure the page numbers are the same font and size as the rest of the document.
• Make sure ‘different first page’ and ‘different even/odd pages’ are not selected.
• Make sure ‘link to previous’ is not selected (it’s okay if it’s selected for the other pages in the section; you just need to make sure the three sections aren’t linked)
• If you still can’t figure it out, email the URP for help.

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• Thesis and Projects Guidelines

Difference between a Thesis and Project

A thesis is a research paper–a traditional master’s thesis. “Research” includes the use of interviews, surveys, online sources, and archival collections as well as traditional book-based work.

If you wish to engage in creative, alternative work, that’s a project. Examples of projects include writing a memoir or biography, composing original music, and filming a documentary. Internships and community service work can also lend themselves well to MALS projects. Projects must include a research component relevant to the nature of the endeavor.

Both projects and theses involve extensive research.  However, for the project the research is the background for, or supplementary to, the creative or alternative activity that forms the bulk of the project.

Expected length for theses and projects is at least 50 pages of text, excluding the signature pages, bibliography, etc. The number of sources used in research depends on the topic.  Both length and number of sources should be agreed upon with your advisor and second reader.

Your Advisor and Second Reader

Finding an Advisor

​If you know whom you’d like to ask to serve as your advisor, you’re welcome to talk with that person directly.  Otherwise, the MALS director will help you to identify appropriate faculty. 

Thesis advisors must be full-time UD faculty; UD regulations do not permit adjunct or retired faculty to serve as thesis advisors.  If you would like to work with an adjunct or retired faculty member, please ask the MALS director about the possibility of appointing co-advisors, one of whom must be a full-time UD faculty member. 

When you know who your advisor will be , please let the MALS office know so that the appropriate designations can be made in UDSIS. This is important so that you can be graded properly for your thesis/project work.

Finding a Second Reader

Once you know who your advisor will be, work with that person to identify a second reader. Ideally, the second reader should be able to fill in areas of expertise that differ from those of the advisor.  As an example, a student who is writing about the effect of Saturday morning cartoons on the behavior of children might want to work with someone who specializes in mass communication and someone else who knows about child psychology.

If you need suggestions for a person to serve as second reader, please contact the director, who will help you identify an appropriate person.

The Role of Your Advisor and Second Reader

Your advisor helps you to define your topic and to refine your proposal.  He or she also provides suggestions, guidance, and feedback as needed.  Although there is no single model for student-advisor interaction, it is a good idea to touch base with the advisor periodically rather than doing a whole semester’s work before discussing it with the advisor.

In your last semester, you should submit your finished work to the advisor at least a month, and preferably six weeks, before the due date.  The advisor may require revisions before approving the work.  There is no hard-and-fast rule about whether the work goes first to the advisor and then to the second reader, or to both at the same time.  The advisor is solely responsible for assigning a grade to the work.

The second reader should offer advice, suggest sources, and provide other help in the areas of the work that fall within his or her expertise.  Like the advisor, the second reader must approve both the proposal and the finished work.  There is no hard-and-fast rule about whether the work goes first to the advisor and then to the second reader, or to both at the same time.  The second reader may and should require any revisions he/she deems necessary.  If differences of opinion arise between the advisor and second reader, those should be resolved by the two faculty members, not by the student.

Getting a Topic Approved

​Once you have established a relationship with an advisor, you will write a thesis or project  proposal . After being approved by both the thesis/project advisor and the second reader, the proposal should be sent to the MALS director as an e-mail attachment with copies to the advisor and second reader.  No hard-copy signatures are necessary.  The MALS director will forward it to the Faculty Advisory Committee, which normally responds within a week.  As soon as the proposal is approved, you are ready to start your work.

Students are encouraged to submit a thesis/project proposal during or shortly after their final MALS course.  If you take time to write the proposal during MALS869 or 879, you decrease your chances of finishing your work in the projected graduation term.

At the very latest, you must submit a proposal by the end of the seventh week of the first semester in which you register for MALS 869 or 879.

Click here for detailed instructions on submitting your proposal:  Proposal Guidelines Revised 12-2020.pdf

Registering for Thesis/Project Credit

Please contact the MALS office ( [email protected] ; 302-831-4130) to register for thesis or project credit.  We will insure that your advisor is designated as the instructor so that you can be appropriately graded for your work.

You must take a total of six credits of MALS869 (thesis) or MALS879 (project). The number of credits you take each semester is up to you. You are required to be registered for credits each fall and spring semester until you graduate. You may sign up for MALS869 or 879 in winter or summer if you wish to do so. The decision about how many credits to take each semester should be based on the amount of time you propose to devote to the thesis or project that semester. You should also bear in mind that the semester in which you graduate is not a full semester of work on the thesis or project even if you are registered for MALS869 or 879 at that time. The completed work is due in mid-November in the fall semester and in mid-April in the spring semester, which means that the final draft has to reach the thesis/project advisor at least a month before that. Please see current deadlines at  grad.udel.edu/policies/step-by-step-guide-to-graduation/#submission-dates .

Ideally, you should pace the credits of MALS869 or 879 to finish the credits and the work in the same semester. If that does not work out, you must register for sustaining credit each semester until you graduate, including the graduation semester itself. Requests for sustaining status should be sent to the MALS director, who will forward them to the Graduate College. 

Structure and Formatting of Your Thesis/Project

Your advisor will help you to select a style guide that is appropriate for the kind of work you are doing.  The most commonly used are the Modern Language Association Style Manual, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, and the Chicago Manual of Style.  This style guide will help you structure such things as footnotes and the Works Cited page.

For both a thesis and a project, you must acquire and use the  UD Thesis / Dissertation Styles  to set up the format for your paper. These styles will ensure that your document meets the standard formatting requirements.

Regardless of whether you are doing a thesis or a project, you should consult the UD Graduate College’s Thesis and Dissertation Manual, available at  https://grad.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UD-Thesis-Manual-7-19.pdf .  

If you are doing a project rather than a thesis, check the sample title and signature pages. Your signature page should include lines for the signatures of the advisor and the MALS director only.​

For specific requirements for MALS  projects , please refer to  MALS Project Requirements.pdf

Grading Thesis or Project Credits

As you complete credits of MALS869 (thesis) or 879 (project), your advisor should assign a grade of Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory.  These are temporary grades, and when you complete the work, they will be replaced by the regular letter grade the advisor assigns to the completed project or thesis.  

Including Interviews and Surveys

​Any form of research, including interviews and surveys, is acceptable in both theses and projects. If you propose to use interviews or surveys, it is necessary to get approval from the UD Human Subjects Review Board. More information is available  here .

Submitting Your Project or Thesis

Thesis 

Please consult the Graduate College’s  Thesis and Dissertation Manual for details.

As that manual indicates, theses are submitted online as a pdf file.

For a project, the only signatures required are the advisor, second reader and MALS program director. A sample  signature page  is available. The project does not need to be submitted to the dean’s Office or Graduate College.

Projects are due to the MALS office on the same day as theses are due to the Graduate College in a given semester. Students must submit a pdf of the project to the MALS office, including signature pages (for mixed media projects, the written portion thereof). The abstract of the project will be placed on the MALS website.

If a project has a non-print component, such as music or film, a copy should be submitted on CD, DVD, or whatever other format is appropriate.

Your deadlines for submission of your project or thesis are available at  http://grad.udel.edu/policies/step-by-step-guide-to-graduation/ .

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• Articulation Agreements

Chairs Workshop Presentations   

• Sludge (Spring 2023)
• UD Faculty Affairs Presentation (Fall 2023)
• Corrie Fountain Presentation on Equity Minded Workloads (Fall 2023)
• UD Faculty Affairs Presentation: UD ADVANCE Institute & AI for Teaching and Learning (Spring 2024)
• UD ADVANCE Institute Handout: Formalizing Peer Review (Spring 2024)

Department Chair Annual Timeline

Faculty Affairs