This page will hopefully serve as a hub of information for those writing their theses or dissertations at Drew.
Drew Technology provides compiled these instructions to for Drew Graduate and Theological School students as help for formatting theses and dissertations. The instructions here do not replace nor supersede any requirements or instructions provided by the Graduate or Theological Schools or by individual faculty members. Graduate and Theological students are encouraged to use these instructions, and the provided templates, as a tool that will teach you how to do your own formatting. We cannot offer support for following these instructions.
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We strongly recommend that you use one of our templates, which come with many of these formatting styles programmed and ready to use. Please see the Drew Dissertation Templates page for more information and the templates themselves.
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This is the most important step! Focus on the content of your work - the research, the creative elements, your unique perspective. Guidelines for DissertationsThese documents are current to the best of our knowledge. Always confer with the director of your program if to be certain you are uncertainfollowing the most recent guidelines.
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Helpful Drew Resources
A Note about Google DocsGoogle Docs is a wonderful place to work for a wide variety of reasons. Unfortunately, those reasons do not cover some of the basic formatting required of a thesis or a dissertation (most importantly, the page numbering). Google has made recent strides in offering some of the formatting required, but not all of it. If you work primarily in Google Docs, we recommend that you plan time to move your work into Microsoft Word (either by downloading the Doc as a Word file, by copying and using Paste > Keep Text Only - which will require formatting adjustments, or by doing both to see what method requires the least amount of adjusting work for your particular document). |
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The easiest way to format your paper is to use a Drew Dissertation Template from as early in the process as possible. You can copy and paste existing text into the template, but will need to be conscious of what formatting is being carried over; most often, pasting text into the template with the Paste Special > Keep Text Only option will be the best choice, but you can try the Merge Formatting option if you are trying to retain, for example, hyperlinks. If you want instructions for formatting a specific type of content within your document (such as the table of contents or bibliography), see our Specific Formatting Instructions.
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Step 5: Defend
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Your reading committee and adviser, as well as the program directors, will work with you to make sure you know the deadlines for scheduling your dissertation defense. We hope to include additional information for you here as we collect it! |
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You can submit your completed, approved paper at httphttps://walterdigitalcollections.drew.edu/etdUniversityArchives/ThesesAndDissertations/#how2publish. You will find instructions on that page.
Step 7: Celebrate!
We knew you could do it!
Reviewed 9/18/23