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This edition of Guidelines for the Preparation of Dissertations, Theses, and Papers is an update to the 2002 revision. The original version was written by the ad hoc committee of Dr. Johannes Vazulik, Dr. William Cosgrove, Charlene Lucken, and Carol Seavert. The 1999 version was edited by Bonnie Cooper. Bonnie Cooper was also involved in the 2006 revision.

Sections 1-13 of the Guidelines were approved by the Graduate Faculty in March 1989. Appendices A-M were added in 1993. (Information and examples for some of these appendices were borrowed from Iowa State University and University of Tennessee handbooks with their permission.) With the 1999 edition, Appendix L (grammar hints) was reorganized and expanded; Appendix M was expanded; and Appendix N was added. The changes made in the 2004 version were primarily editorial in nature and were consistent with the Graduate Faculty’s May 2004 revision of the disquisition editing process. The changes included the deletion of Appendices L, M, and N. The changes were made to reflect the Graduate Faculty’s belief that graduate students need to develop proficient communication skills in order to be able to succeed in their field of study. The intent of this revision of the disquisition editing process is to make the student and the student’s committee primarily responsible for issues of content, language use, and format. With the 2006 revision, the grammar hints section was posted as its own document on The Graduate School website.

Guidelines for the Preparation of Dissertations, Theses, and Papers illustrates the requirements that all theses, papers, and dissertations must follow in order to be approved by The Graduate School. The disquisition process is an integral component of a quality graduate education. This process enhances the education that graduate students receive at NDSU and advertises to the world that NDSU is a quality research institution. Disquisitions professionally document scholarly research that can be utilized by future researchers, target audiences, and others to expand the body of human knowledge.

All dissertations and their abstracts are required to be sent to Bell & Howell in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I encourage the sending of master’s theses or papers and/or their abstracts to Bell & Howell.

David A. Wittrock, Ph.D.
Dean of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies
February 2006





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