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4 | Table of Contents Preparation of the Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Margins and Pagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Text of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Use of Tables, Figures and Other Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 End Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Format Review and Format Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 The Final Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Thesis Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Binding the Thesis and Final Approval of the Bound Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Appendix 1. Sample Research Proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Appendix 2. Sample Abstracts from Completed Theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Appendix 3. Checklist for Format Review of Completed Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Appendix 4. Common Problems in Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Appendix 5. Word-Processing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Appendix 6. Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Appendix 7. Harvard Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 A Guide to the ALM Thesis
Preface | 5 Preface The master’s thesis can be both a demanding and a novel undertaking for many students seeking a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) degree in Harvard Extension. This Guide has been prepared to offer practical help and encouragement. Based on our extensive experience in counseling ALM candidates, it attempts to answer the questions they most frequently ask and to anticipate the problems they often face. We hope that it will enable you to avoid the most common pitfalls and make thesis writing the rewarding experience that it should be. Although concerned primarily with the thesis, the Guide is intended to be useful in other ways as well, including for the preparation of term papers and seminar reports, which are often practice exercises for the thesis itself. We urge you to use it in many contexts as a multi-purpose tool. Most of the relevant procedures for the ALM thesis are illustrated in the pages that follow, including the three basic methods for footnoting and bibliographic citation, the APA, Chicago Manual, and MLA styles, and the formats required for the research proposal and the final thesis. All ALM candidates are expected to be familiar with the contents of this Guide before undertaking the thesis project. In particular, they should read it carefully before consulting with the research advisor for their field. We would like to acknowledge the previous contributions to this Guide of our former colleagues Prassede Calabi, James Wilkinson, Emily Cahan, Jay Hook, David Gewanter, J. Douglas Willen, Amanda R. Benson, L. Dodge Fernald, and Peter O’Malley, and the helpful suggestions of those ALM candidates, proseminar instructors, and other members of the ALM staff who alerted us to various obscurities in the prior editions. We are grateful to Chuck Houston and Bob Sweeney for their assistance with proofreading. We wish you good luck in your research and writing. James Morris Donald Ostrowski Dante Spetter Sarah E. Powell, assistant editor Sue Weaver Schopf, general editor A Guide to the ALM Thesis
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