MAKE FINAL REVISIONS

You’ve completed your thesis defense, received comments and suggestions from your committee, and are ready to prepare a final thesis draft. If you haven’t already done so, you’ll want to consult the Thesis Style and Format Guide for final formatting guidelines.

Usually your Primary Thesis Advisor will advise you on the accepted styles of citation and bibliography in the premier journals in your major field of study (the standard), and you can customize the guidelines in the Thesis Style and Format Guide to follow the format model recommended by your advisor.

Another style manual you might want to look at in the library is the Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian, 1996).

SUBMIT FINAL COPIES WITH SIGNATURES

• Both copies of your manuscript must be printed or copied on minimum 25 percent cotton bond or equivalent weight;
• Each copy should include a blank flyleaf (25 percent cotton bond) before the first page and after the last page of your thesis.
• Check your copies after duplication to be sure they are clear and readable. If you have any doubts, show the original to the CHC Academic Coordinator in the CHC office. Poor copies will not be accepted.
• Both copies of the Abstract page must include the original signature of your Primary Thesis Advisor;
• Each copy of your manuscript must be unbound and separately packaged in envelopes with a printout of your thesis envelope cover sheet taped to each envelope.

PREPARE FOR GRADUATION

• Fill out a final Graduation Final Information form and a Graduation Questionnaire and give them to the CHC Academic Coordinator no later than week 10 in the term you are planning to graduate.
• Order your graduation regalia (cap, gown and cords) at the UO Bookstore. See the Student Life webpage about commencement.