Recent Revisions

• Updated Signature Page Downloads: Signature pages are available for download: http://www.baylor.edu/graduate/index.php?id=43441.

• Margins: Students must adhere to the new requirement of 1.25 inch left and right margins, and 1 inch top and bottom margins.

• Landscape Tables: The Guidelines no longer require that the page numbers on pages containing landscape tables occur at the bottom of the page. It is now permissible for the pages with landscape tables to be numbered at the right hand margin.

• Copyright/Plagiarism: Copyright/Plagiarism information has been added, pp. 9-10 and p. 12.

• Pagination of Initial Pages: We now count all pages at the beginning of the dissertation/thesis, but actual numbering only shows on the page beginning at the Table of Contents. Refer to the Guidelines, pp. 8, 9, and 10.

• For previously published chapters of the dissertation or thesis: refer to the Guidelines, p. 10 for citation requirement at the beginning of the chapter.

• Appendix/Permissions: Permissions for using previously published work no longer need to be included in the appendices. Permissions do need to be submitted in a separate PDF as part of your submission to BearDocs. See p. 19.

• UMI/Proquest: There is no charge for submitting to UMI/Proquest. This step is required for doctoral students, and we encourage master’s students to submit. See pp. 19-20.

• Survey of Earned Doctorates: FOR Ph.D. STUDENTS ONLY. Refer to the Guidelines, Electronic Processing, p. 19. The survey site for ProQuest has been updated. This is a required part of the dissertation process and is a separate survey particular to the dissertation completion process.

You, your major professor, and the Graduate School will work together to produce your dissertation or thesis. Your objective is for the content and its presentation to meet the highest professional standards of your discipline, in the context of Guidelines developed by the Graduate School of Baylor University.

• You are responsible for the formatting of your dissertation or thesis as part of the requirements for graduation.

• If you do not have the skills to complete this task, then it is your responsibility to find help.

• Preliminary Review now required. Schedule at least 2 weeks before date of oral examination, preferably one month before.

• We provide training workshops for you, and Mrs. Harman will gladly assist with any questions you may have.
  

  Please note that when you see ITS lab times scheduled, the ITS staff is there to instruct and teach you how to accomplish the formatting tasks with which you are having trouble. They are not prepared to DO the tasks for you--that is your responsibility. This is a service they provide in addition to their regularly scheduled ITS duties. Please remember to thank them and be on your best behavior.

• However, the Graduate School anticipates that you will have the document in almost-perfect formatting shape when first presented for review.

• In order to reduce the need to review your document multiple times, please be careful to check all sections before presenting the final product.

• Replacement of signed signature page with an unsigned one in the electronic submission of the dissertation/thesis.

• Approved final copy due to Graduate School 10 days after the defense.

• The Graduate School Guidelines supercede the style manual chosen by the department.

• Bound paper copies are no longer required by the University.

• Do not refer to previous dissertations or theses for formatting.