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List of Illustrations, Tables, Figures, Charts. Tables, figures, and the like that
you discuss explicitly go in the body of the project; otherwise they belong in the
appendix. The proper format for the first table in chapter four is as follows:
Table 4.1 Drug Courts and Traditional Court Processing Transaction Costs
Cost per Drug Cost per Traditional Cost Difference:
Court Participant Court Participant Drug Court
Transaction (n = 594) (n=573) Savings
Arrest $193 $193 $0
Booking $284 $284 $0
Court time $682 $679 -$3
Treatment $2,644 $2,009 -$635
Jail time $1,611 $2,783 $1,172
Probation time $514 $1,422 $908
Total Cost $5,928 $7,370 $1,442
(Source: Carey and Finigan, 2004, p. 329)
For you have, let’s say, half a dozen or more tables in the body of the project, you should
include a page with a list of tables after the table of contents and before the introduction.
Bibliography, References, Works Cited. Bibliography and references are more
expansive than works cited, they can include works you examined in your research that
you wish to bring to the attention of readers, not merely works to which you make
explicit reference in the body of the project. You may choose whichever you prefer.
Unlike any end notes, that may be placed at the end of each chapter or at the end of the
body of the project, your bibliography, references, or works cited goes only at the end of
the body of the project. Normally it is not annotated, though if you see your project as
opening up a new field, annotations might be helpful.
Glossary. You need a glossary (after the conclusion and before the bibliography
and appendix) if you make a lot of use of technical terms or jargon. If the definition of a
technical term is generally accepted in the field but not widely known outside it, then
include it in the glossary; but if it’s controversial, then discuss it in the text. As a rule of
thumb, if the glossary would be less than half a page, don’t include it; if it would be a full
page or longer, you really need it.
Make a distinction between definitions of technical terms and extended
discussions of broad concepts or ideas, and don’t claim to “define” when what you really
do is describe a situation, identify a theory, or, in general, explore the discussion around
different aspects of a multi-dimensional concept. You don’t define “Buddhism,”
“natural,” or “community”; you devote a sub-section or even a whole section to the
different ideas around them, where they come from, their different cultural contexts, and
how they interrelate. You may come up with your own position on those issues and state
how you will use it in your project, but you’ve explored a concept and taken a position on
it more than defined it. You’ve laid out an intellectual context. Definitions of technical