2/15/16

Making an M.A. Thesis Template

In working on my M.T.S. thesis I had to research the form a thesis should take in order to meet the technical structural requirements. I must say that for a guy living in a tent most of the time, and for the prior eight years in Alaska, it is sometimes challenging enough to keep warm much less battle the computer to get all of the indentations and spacings just so.

Actually though the structure for a thesis isn't terribly difficult and once one has the right example documents, easily available on-line, settings up one's page margins, headers and paragraph criteria as well as font go rather quickly.

Writing a thesis is informative. One discovers the Forest Service and other government documents often use that thesis style and structure for their presentations so they are standard and look professional. After setting up one's one thesis and getting it right it would be a good idea to save it as a template for use in publishing any sort of document in the future so they all have that thesis style. 

http://www.kstk.org/2016/02/09/forest-service-seeks-input-on-new-anan-master-plan-mooring-float/ example of forest service Master's thesis style master plan presentation at the four links at end of the news article

Some college insiders avoid time wasting thought on technical details and simply mass produce templates so students can rather paint  by the numbers in a manner of speaking. I suppose the rich have often done so.

https://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp this one requires knowledge of LaTex. I suggest one make a template for-onself and use liber office or a similar open source program to make a template from a word document.

Still, there are many M.A. thesis templates out there in cyberspace. Here are a few...

https://www.clarkson.edu/cee/graduate/GSA_thesistemplate_091008.doc

https://www.k-state.edu/grad/etdr/template/mastersinstructions.doc

https://gradcollege.okstate.edu/content/thesis-and-dissertation-templates

I suggest dumping some experimental content into the thesis template, such as the value of digging holes deeper and deeper before filling them in or working to take the dirt out of the whole and into another before placing the good stuff in it.

Here is a draft of my M.T.S. thesis. I still have work to do with it, and getting those numbers to line up correctly is one of those computer issues that never would have occurred with a typewriter. Working on tech issues rather than content is a good thing to avoid with a template.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5mNLBmCx8N4eUVHLWZMa29YM2c/view?usp=sharing M.T.S. thesis

https://www.clarku.edu/graduate/current/formatguides/thesis-format-guide.pdf

http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdn/pdf/format_guidelines-m.pdf


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