Only theses and dissertations are reviewed for format requirements. To make a thesis formatting appointment with the Thesis Advisor, students will need to email the contact shown above. Once the thesis has been approved, the student may schedule a defense. It is recommended that students make an appointment with the thesis advisor as early as possible.
Two days prior to your scheduled Thesis Advising appointment, you should email a complete copy of your thesis as a single Word or PDF document with no images to your Thesis Advisor. After receiving your document, the Thesis Advisor will submit your electronic document to the iThenticate application to verify there is no plagiarism within the document. At the Thesis Advising appointment you will be able to review the results of the check as well as receive the electronic results.
Please e-mail Dr. Newton kanewton purdue. If a student is in doubt whether their document is formatted correctly, they may email a sample from their thesis to the Thesis Format Advisor for review and comment.
Having an article-based dissertation is a collection of 3 minimum published or accepted for publication without further revision research articles in high quality refereed journals related to a common theme. Prior to submission to the journals for publication, the candidate must obtain approval of each article and the journals from all current Committee members.
The relationship between the articles and theory bases they are drawn from must be described in an introductory chapter. Crosscutting themes, conclusions, implications and recommendations that may be drawn from across the articles must be described in a concluding chapter. Students are required to be first author, and confirm their contributions of each article before their listings according to the following Multiple Author Policy.
A author is a person who has used professional skills to make a significant contribution to a published article and who can take public responsibility for its content. A significant contribution is a contribution without which the article would have been seriously compromised in scope or quality. A significant contribution to a research project may be made by an author in one or more of the following research phases:. Types of work that are specifically excluded from this definition are as follows:.
Unjustified multiple authorship dilutes the value of authorship, reduces the credibility of the study and can violate the essential principle that science can advance only through the work of those who understand what they are saying. Reference: Morgan, P.
How many authors can dance on the head of an article? Canadian Medical Association Journal, , Student authors are required to confirm contributions to each paper with the following statement. To browse a fuller listing of dissertations from Purdue please visit the Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest series. Advanced Search. Privacy Copyright.
Skip to main content. Theses and Dissertations. Theses and Dissertations Available from ProQuest Full text is available to Purdue University faculty, staff, and students on campus through this site.
Access to abstracts is unrestricted. Open Access Theses This series contains theses that students have wished to make openly available.
Open Access Dissertations This series contains open access dissertations that students have wished to make openly available. See above deadlines. Within 30 days of the start of classes -- Submit any last minute revisions needed to your approved Plan of Study. If there are any courses on your approved Plan of Study that you later elected not to take, you must revise your Plan of Study to delete those courses, and add courses you did take or are taking -- with the approval of your committee chair and the Graduate Program Chair.
Otherwise, you will not pass your degree audit. Approximately 4 weeks after classes begin -- Last day to declare yourself as a degree candidate by registering for CAND for graduation at the end of this semester. If you did not do so before the end of the first week of classes, you will have to declare this candidacy through the Graduate School in Young YONG Hall. Approximately 8 weeks after classes begin -- For thesis students registered for "Exam Only" or "Degree Only" neither is common , last day to deposit thesis, and to submit their ETAF and Required Survey s.
The ETAF should be initiated no earlier than the day of a students defense through the plan of study portal. Approximately 8 weeks after classes begin -- Last day to submit your electronic Form 8 to propose a date and time for your thesis or directed project oral defense.
Do this through the myPurdue web portal. The Graduate School requires a minimum of two weeks notice between the date of receipt of the Form 8 inclusive of your committee members' e-signatures to be available on the specified date , and the proposed date of your defense.
If you have trouble creating your Form 8, see the CIT office. NOTE: When you propose your defense date make sure you also schedule a separate meeting for your thesis format review with your Advisor. At least one or two working days prior to your thesis or report format formatting -- Send your electronic thesis or directed project report to your department's Thesis Format Advisor.
That electronic copy will be processed by a plagiarism detection service. Also bring a paper copy of your thesis or report to the meeting printed on one side of the page only. Do not miss your scheduled thesis or directed project format meeting. If you do, you may not be allowed to deposit your report this semester and graduate. At least one weekday before your oral defense -- Initiate your electronic Form 9 via the myPurdue web portal.
This form will be used later by your committee to pass or reject your written thesis or directed project report. Day of your oral defense -- Do not miss your oral defense also called the final exam , or you will not graduate this semester.
It must occur on the approved date, and all faculty committee members must be in attendance, either in person or by way of teleconference. You must also initiate your ETAF and complete the required survey's on the day of your defense through the plan of study portal.
Approximately the last day of classes meaning prior to final exams week -- For thesis students , last day to deposit thesis, and to submit their ETAF and Required Survey s. When writing your thesis or report, you must follow very specific Purdue and CIT standards. Theses and directed projects follow the same structure and formatting rules. This formatting appointment is mandatory.
If you do not meet with the CIT Thesis and Directed Project Format Advisor and get the appropriate approval signature on the electronic Form 9, you will not graduate on time. The Thesis Formatting Review requires the following steps:.
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