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General Thesis Format

Left Margin 1.5 inches


Right Margin 1 inch
Top 1 inch
Bottom 1 inch
Pagination Upper right-side corner
Lowercase of Roman numerals for the preliminary parts
(No pagination on Chapter or Title pages)
Space Double
Text Alignment Justified
Style Normal
Font Size 12 (body of the text)
Titles and Sub-headings Bold
Set sub-titles (chapter 4) in italics
Typeface Arial
Verb Tense Future Tense (Proposal Defense)
Past Tense (Final Paper)
Appropriate also for RRL
Present Tense to describe and discuss general truth and continuing
action
Pronouns Third Person
(First person may be used if you belong to the community where data
are collected. This is also true to ethnographic and
phenomenological explorations)

Page Content No hanging pages


Provide introductory lines in Chapters II, III, IV and V
Abstract 200-300 words
Paper Substance 20 8.5 x 11 plain white
Citation MLA Format

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