The document provides guidelines for writing acknowledgments in a thesis or dissertation. It recommends thanking (1) your thesis advisor and committee members first for their academic support. It then suggests (2) listing other helpers like lab assistants or classmates who contributed directly. Next, (3) acknowledge any financial support received from grants, fellowships or scholarships. Finally, (4) thank more personal supporters like family and friends for their emotional support throughout the project, while keeping the language formal and avoiding overly personal details.
The document provides guidelines for writing acknowledgments in a thesis or dissertation. It recommends thanking (1) your thesis advisor and committee members first for their academic support. It then suggests (2) listing other helpers like lab assistants or classmates who contributed directly. Next, (3) acknowledge any financial support received from grants, fellowships or scholarships. Finally, (4) thank more personal supporters like family and friends for their emotional support throughout the project, while keeping the language formal and avoiding overly personal details.
The document provides guidelines for writing acknowledgments in a thesis or dissertation. It recommends thanking (1) your thesis advisor and committee members first for their academic support. It then suggests (2) listing other helpers like lab assistants or classmates who contributed directly. Next, (3) acknowledge any financial support received from grants, fellowships or scholarships. Finally, (4) thank more personal supporters like family and friends for their emotional support throughout the project, while keeping the language formal and avoiding overly personal details.
In general, the most important person to thank in the
acknowledgment is your thesis advisor or major professor overseeing your project, followed by any members of the thesis committee and other supervising academics directly involved with your project. In general, it's helpful to think in groups, even going to far as to format all the thank-yous of a particular group in a single sentence: "I would like to thank Dr. Stevens, Dr. Smith, and Professors Clemons for their extraordinary support in this thesis process." B. List other helpers
This might include lab assistants, or anyone who helped you
with coursework or contributed to the project itself in any way. Other classmates who you feel like contributed to the project directly would also be appropriate to thank in this category. C. Address financial aid you might've received If your project received any financial support from a foundation or research group, such as a grant, a fellowship, or a scholarship, it would be appropriate to thank the foundation or organization by name and list any personal contacts you might've had with the group. If your scholarship at the University was supported by any fellowships or scholarships, it would also be appropriate to name them in this section: "This project would have been
impossible without the support of the Katherine G. Katherine
Foundation, the Reese's Peanut Butter scholarship, and the Guggenheim Group." D. Put more personal thank-yous and emotional supporters last. Many people like to thank their parents personally, as well as any friends, partners, or other acquaintances who contributed to your emotional well-being throughout the completion of the project at hand. Remember that your friendships and romances may change over the years, so it might be best to keep particularly mushy romances and declarations of love out of your acknowledgment page, so you won't have to see it later if it
doesn't work out.
It's generally best to avoid overtly personal anecdotes and inside jokes in an academic acknowledgements page. If you want to reference other students' constant joking around in the lab, say, it would be better to say, "Thanks to Joe and Katherine for their friendship in the lab."