Thesis Template 2

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CLARKSON UNIVERSITY

Title

A Thesis/A Dissertation

By

Name

Department of

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of

Master of Science

Doctor of !hilosophy

Date

Accepted by the "raduate School

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Date Dean of the "raduate School


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The undersigned ha$e e%amined the thesis entitled &Write Thesis Title' presented by

WRITENAME HERE a candidate for the degree of Master of Sciece !Write f"ll

#e$ree here%and hereby certify that it is (orthy of acceptance)

Date Ad$isors name

Date committee member name

Date committee member name

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ABSTRACT

All the pages ha$e been formatted in the accepted font and margin alignment) This is a

simple MS thesis template that can be used for directly typing in your content) *o(e$er

if you paste your te%t into the document do so (ith caution as pasting could produce

$arying results) +hen directly typing into the title page and signature page the

appropriate information should be filled in the required fonts) ,f one chooses to include a

copyright notice it should appear before the signature page and after the title page -page

ii.) This can be achie$ed by clicing ,nsert > brea > page brea >o) Additionally the

page number should not appear on the copyright notice page) This can be achie$ed by

clicing ,nsert > page numbers > format > start numbering at) , ha$e used this thesis

template to ans(er typical questions that grad students need addressed before they begin

(riting their theses) +hen (riting an abstract bare in mind an abstract is a short

descripti$e summary of your thesis) The number of (ords accepted might $ary e)g) 0112

031 (ords) An MS thesis abstract need not e%ceed t(o pages) Abstracts are typically

(ritten last although they are the most important part of the thesis) They should ha$e a

little bit of e$erything4 the bacground the scope of your pro5ect the purpose findings

and conclusions) An abstract is neither paragraphed nor cited) ,t should not be (ritten as

a literature re$ie( or a discussion of results) ,n a simplistic manner your abstract in a

fe( (ords should ans(er the questions4 (hy should (e care about your research6 ho(

did you get your results6 (hat did you learn find create in$ent6 and finally (hat do your

results imply7

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

"ratitude is a great $irtue Though re$enge is profitable

,ts customary and good manners to say than you ho(e$er (here do you dra( the line7

,n some of the theses that ,'$e read and , (rite this after ha$ing read thousands literally

the follo(ing and more ha$e been acno(ledged4 "od one's ad$isor one's better half

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presidential candidate one's chef 8ed 9eppelin the pastor one's biggest crash the cable

man the mani/pedi girl hair stylist the best/(orst/fa$ bar tender-s. the 5anitor one's

obs/gyn one's mentor and in a more recent thesis Michael !helps -: gold medals at the

011: ;lympic games in Bei5ing hina (ay to go=.

Than you to the larson ni$ersity "raduate Student Association -"SA. for initiating

the idea that a thesis template (ould be a useful tool for graduate students and in

particular to Sheila ?alenge (ho in August 011: completed her MS degree in

@n$ironmental Science and @ngineering and began the process of getting this template

together)

?eep in mind that one has to use one's o(n (ords (hen (riting an acno(ledgement)

!lagiarism is unauthoried)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ma%imie the benefits of the template and MS +;CD options) The table of contents can

be updated as you re$ise your thesis by using right mouse button and clicing on Fupdatefield)G +ith this approach there is no need to copy and paste or retype your chapter and

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LIST OF TABLES

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LIST OF FIGURES

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approach there is no need to copy and paste or retype your chapter and section titles) ouneed to also use the figure captions (ithin the body of your thesis -see e%amples belo(.)

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CHAPTER I: Introduction

The main goal of your introduction is to identify a problem that is (orthy of

in$estigation) ,t must also pro$ide some idea of your research goals and approach to

research) Specific ob5ecti$es can be introduced in the introduction chapter or they can be

sa$ed for later after you'$e pro$ided additional bacground on the topic and state of the

current research and its gaps) The ,ntroductory chapter often concludes (ith a summary

of the organiation of the thesis including identification of the general content of specific

chapters and appendices)

,deally chapter one defines the o$erall importance of the problem areas and pro$ides an

introduction into (hat you did chapter t(o is (hy you did it in the conte%t of (hat (as

pre$iously no(n three is ho( you did it four is (hat you found and fi$e is (hat it all

means L putting the pieces together -(hat's your contribution to the research field.)

,t should be noted that the ob5ecti$es of your research define the ;T;M@ i)e) (hat

(ill be learned) They are not a statement of the approach or tass that are required to

meet these ob5ecti$es) Some e%amples of reasonable research ob5ecti$es4

Determine the effect of Marangoni con$ection on mi%ing of molten glasses

!redict the e%tent of mechanical degradation of polymers

These both define the resulting outcome -prediction effect on=. so they are ob5ecti$es)

The related tass or research approach could be4

Sol$e a set of coupled non2linear !D@s=

!erform e%periments on=

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These define the required steps6 they do not define the outcome so they are E;T

ob5ecti$es)

Some theses and dissertations can ha$e some chapters (ritten as manuscripts that can be

submitted to peer2re$ie(ed scientific research 5ournals) ,n that scenario the grad student

should be the principal author of the pending articles) The thesis or dissertation that

includes manuscripts as chapters are not e%empt from (riting an introduction

bacground/ literature re$ie( and o$erall conclusions and recommendations)

This template uses the MS +;CD ST8@S e%tensi$ely to help eep your (or in the

proper format) These paragraphs use the Fthesis2body te%tG style that is set for Times

Ee( Coman K0 point font (ith double spaced lines and e%tra spacing bet(een

paragraphs -no need for hard carriage returns.) There are also styles for headers

equations captions and bulleted lists that you can choose to use) See e%amples

throughout this template)

Begin typing or pasting the rest of your chapter K te%t here) -and then deleting abo$e te%t.

CHAPTER II: Background and Literature Review

The bacground and literature re$ie( section needs to pro$ide sufficient fundamental

bacground information about the sub5ect to support your ob5ecti$es hypothesis -or

research questions. and methods and re$ie( the pertinent literature related to the specific

problem / hypothesis you are addressing) ,n Pohnson -KNNK. some of the questions that

he listed that the literature re$ie( should be to ans(er include4

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(hat are the fundamental science math engineering concepts related to your

research -scope.

(hat part of your research (or has e$er been in$estigated before and (hat has

not -some of this may ha$e been included in the introduction.

ho( does your research (or relate to that done by others

ho( ha$e others defined/measured/identified the ey concepts of your research

(hat data sources ha$e you used or ha$e other researchers used in de$eloping

general e%planations for obser$ed $ariations in a beha$ior or phenomenon in a

concept in your thesis etc)

The lit re$ie( -Q01 pages or more. should not be limited to the abo$e questions only)

,ngeniousness and creati$ity is e%pected of a grad student)

Bullets can be single spaced) The abo$e bullets are in the style Fthesis2bullets)G +hen

you type bulleted te%t highlight the bulleted te%t and then select Fthesis2bulletsG from

under the format style menu to automatically change their formatting as abo$e)

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Section header

"i$en the length of each chapter it is required to use headers and sub headers -possibly

sub2sub headers.) These can be numbered or one can 5ust rely on different formats) The

section headers in this document are labeled Fheading 0G -Fheading KG (as used for

chapter titles.) The heading styles formats should be consistent throughout the document

as it helps significantly in creating the automatic table of contents)

Sub headin !headin "#

The subheadings here ha$e a different format -Fheading OG. than the section headers)

Sub-sub heading (heading 4)

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contents ho(e$er is currently set up to 5ust include three le$els of headers)

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E$uation%

@quations can be created in MS +;CD equation editor or they can be created (ith other

soft(are) @quations should be numbered) They can be numbered (ithin each chapter

-e)g) 0)K 0)0. or they can be numbered sequentially throughout the entire thesis)

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Fiure%

igures and illustrations are a necessary means of communicating technical information)

;ften times figures included in the bacground/lit re$ie( section are copied from

e%isting copyrighted information) ,n all cases this is technically inappropriate (ithout

also recei$ing permission from the copyright o(ner) iting the source of the figure is not

sufficient) This rule is enforced for !hD dissertations because they are submitted to

!rouest for electronic access by others) The enforcement of this rule for MS theses is

dependent on the specific committee members)

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CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY

,n addition to the detailed methods you need to describe in this section you need to

pro$ide specific ob5ecti$es and an o$er$ie( of your approach if they ha$e not already

been presented in the introductory chapters) The best place to put those items can $ary

among theses) Sometimes the bacground and lit re$ie( is really necessary to 5ustify and

substantiate the specific ob5ecti$es and approach and therefore it is best to sa$e those

details for the beginning of this chapter)

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CHAPTER I: RE!"LT!

Cesults findings discussion of results ;C manuscripts) ,t is best to also reiterate

information in your literature re$ie( to help substantiate the findings of your research)

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CHAPTER : CO#CL"!IO#

This chapter could also be called Fonclusions and CecommendationsG or Fonclusions

and ,mplications)G ,n general there should be no ne( information presented here) ,t

should be a synthesis of information that you'$e already discussed)

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REFERENCES

,ncludes all references4 articles media facts boos reports regulations internet articles

papers that you referenced from the te%t) ,n the te%t citations can be -Smith and Pones

011J. or Smith et al) 011J. -if more than t(o authors. if you (ish to present your

references alphabetically) Alternati$ely you can include the citations in the te%t as a

number RK or K if you (ish to present your references numerically) The computer

soft(are F@nd EotesG -larson has a site license. or the MS +;CD tools L Finsert

reference footnote endnoteG -or Fcross referenceG if you refer to the same reference

more than once. should be used to help you organie and manage your references)

Ceferences can be (ritten in single space (ith e%tra space bet(een references as in the

format belo() There are many different (ays to arrange the information and punctuation

in a reference listing) The most important thing is to mae sure all references are

complete and that the format of your references is consistent throughout) See additional

suggestions and possible formatting options at the larson 8ibrary (eb site4

http4//((()clarson)edu/library/research/cite)html

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paper) ,n4 !roceedings 0nd ,nternational meeting of Masters Students !aper U X+K3

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A))endi- A

Type or paste your appendices here) Appendices are a place to organie and include all of

the Fe%traG material that is important to your research (or but that is too detailed for the

main te%t) @%amples can include4 specific analytical methods computer code

spreadsheets of data details of statistical analyses etc) But these materials do not spea

for themsel$es) There should be a reference to these materials from the main chapters

-complete details included in Appendi% A. and there should be some te%t at the beginning

of each appendi% to briefly e%plain (hat the information is and means that is included in

that appendi%)

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