My Thesis Title

Chapter 1– Background to the Work

1.1Introduction

This example file is for use with Part 2 of the course notesUsing Microsoft Word for a Thesis. It is based on a special template (thesis.dot) developed in Part 1 of the course.

1.1.1Different Styles

The special template contains both page setup and style settings.The page setup settings conform to the Rules for the Submission of Theses. Heading styles like the above are used by Word to generate the Table of Contents.

  1. First numbered list item
  2. Second numbered list item

Back to normal text – the style for this paragraph had to be set manually. Below this next paragraph is a graph and caption. Captions are used by Word to generate aTable of Figures.

Figure 1 Seasonal Variation in Temperature

Note how the caption is linked to the chart – the caption paragraph has the Keep with next option turned on, which ensures the two paragraphs move together even when there is plenty of room for the caption on the previous page.

Captions can also be used to generate a Table of Equations or Table of Tables. These alternative choices are built into Word, but you can also create your own caption labels – to generate, for example, a Table of Maps or Table of Photographs. If you haven’t used captions for your figures, tables, etc then you’ll have to type the lists in manually.

1.2Adding References

This next paragraph is being used to test out the EndNote software (Coventry 1989)which compiles a referencelibrary (Driscoll 1998). It can be used to add references to a document and it generates a list of references at the end of the text (Coventry 1989). As you add further references, the list grows; as you delete them they are automatically removed from the list. Each reference is included only once in the final list.

EndNote will generate a reference list at the end of each thesis chapter. To combine these separate lists into a single reference list for the whole thesis, the recommended method is to employ a Master Document. Most users don’t know about this facility in Word and instead copy and paste individual chapters into a single huge file. The problem with this method is that the larger the file, the more potential there is for Word to crash and corrupt your work. You’ll be learning about Master Documents on today’s course.

References

Coventry (1989). P.E. and I.T. Coventry teachers report on the use of information technology in the physical education curriculum. Coventry, City of Coventry Education Department.

Driscoll, M. (1998). Web-based training using technology to design adult learning experiences. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

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