Please check with your thesis advisor to determine if you should use guidelines that are specific to your department or discipline. If none are required, please use the attached guidelines for your thesis.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions:

Beth Harris

Special Collections Management Librarian

Room 303

bharris@hollins.edu

x6237

1. Page Order
• Title Page
• Dedication (optional)
• Acknowledgements (optional)
• Introduction or abstract
• Table of contents, including page numbers
• Text
• Appendix (optional)
• Endnotes (if using)
• Bibliography

2. Title page: your title page should follow the example of the attached sample.

3. Page Numbers
• Use small case Roman numerals (i,ii,iii,iv,v) for preliminary pages (prior to first page of text) ; use Arabic numerals (1,2,3,4,5) for remaining pages.
• The title page is considered the first page but do not put a page number on title page. (The next page will be numbered ii.)
• Number all pages, including those with photographs, charts, appendices, etc.
• Page numbers can be placed in the upper right hand corner, 0.5 inch from the top, or in the bottom center, 0.5 inch from the bottom.

4. Wordprocessing. Must be wordprocessed, double-spaced, have 1 inch margins, and use a 12 pt. easy-to-read, serifed font.

§ Examples of serifed fonts are : Times New Roman, Georgia, and Baskerville Old Face.

§ Examples of non-serifed fonts are Arial, Comic Sans MS, and Tahoma.

5. Margins: 1.5 inch left margin, 1 inch right, 1 inch top and bottom margins.

6. Corrections. Do not use correction fluids on the final copy. If correction fluid is necessary, make the correction and then photocopy the page on the same paper as the rest of the thesis. Discard the page with the correction fluid.

7. Paper: Pure white, 20-28 lb. resume or thesis quality paper is preferred for the archival copy.

8. Non-print or mixed formats: see Beth Harris, in Library (room 303, x6237) for more information.

9. Submitting your thesis.

§ Honors theses. Turn in two copies: one advisor copy, one loose-leaf archival copy.

§ Non-honors theses on local history or culture topics. Turn in two copies in an envelope or folder: one advisor copy, one archival copy.

§ All other non-honors theses. Submit one copy to advisor.

Title Page Sample

Milton and Shakespeare:

a comparison of styles

Susan Q. Smith

Senior Thesis / Senior Honors Thesis [choose appropriate one]

Course No.: ENG 480 / ENG 490 [list appropriate course number]

Department: English

Thesis Advisor: Charles V. Jones

Date: May 2003 [Month and year paper is submitted]