Dissertation Template Version 2.0

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That’s right, we’ve gone from “Crafty Compton” to “Sweet Swingle.”

We have a new document assistant at TEDS and a new document assistant means changes to our dissertation and research paper template. You can download the latest version in the same place as always (toddjana.com/u/tem01).

Important! Do Not Try to Update a Document in Progress

Please note, if you are in the middle of your dissertation or other research project, do not try to update your file by putting it in a new template. I’m not sure of any good way to simply update a document to the new template. As far as I know, you must make all the changes that I made when I updated the template. That’s the bad news. The good news is…


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Dissertation Template: Submitting the Final PDF File (video)

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It’s finally time to submit that final version of your dissertation as a pdf to Proquest/UMI Dissertation Services. Rejoice!

Even if you’ve written you’re dissertation in a single MS Word file (as I highly recommend), you’ll still need to create several separate pdf files of your dissertation and then recombine them into one single pdf document. I’ll explain why and how in this tutorial.


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Dissertation Template: Printing Chapter by Chapter (video)

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This is a tutorial for use with the MS Word template for writing dissertations and research papers according to the TEDS formatting and style guide. In this tutorial I explain how to prepare a multi-chapter document for printing chapter by chapter (in separate files).


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Dissertation with Introduction Before Chapters (video)

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Along with my day job I also try to help out my fellow PhD students by providing them with a template that helps them automagically format their dissertations, proposals, and research papers at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

In this particular post I am responding to a recent question in which a user asked if it was possible to include a formal introduction that was not counted as a chapter in the table of contents. In the video above I show you just how to do that. It’s really pretty simple.


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Dissertation Template Version 1.2.2 (video)

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We have another version of the template (version 1.2.2) that incorporates two very slight changes.


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Transliteration for the Dissertation Template (With Some Help from AutoCorrect)

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For some Old Testament research papers you may find it necessary to include transliterated text for ancient languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, etc. In that case, thanks to the Tyndale Unicode Keyboard for Hebrew and Greek, finding a way to input the extra characters you need is almost, but not quite, elementary. Read on to find out the best way I know to set up your system for easy entry of transliterated text for ANE languages.

By the way, part of the solution to the problem involves using AutoCorrect in MS Word. So as a bonus, you’ll also learn a trick for easily entering words you use frequently.


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Let Us Build a Tower: Unicode and The Babelization of ASCII

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You can find explanations of Unicode all over the web, this explanation is offered for non-technical people in the field of biblical studies. The purpose is to help you understand what you need on your computer to be able to enter text in German, French, Hebrew, Greek, or other languages with special characters. Specifically, it will help you understand why no ordinary font will do.


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Dissertation Template Version 1.2 (video)

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There is a new version of the MS Word template for graduate research papers at TEDS.
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Dissertation Template: Introduction

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Introducing the MS Word template for writing graduate research papers (dissertations, theses) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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Dissertation Template: Table of Contents – Custom Levels (video)

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The table of contents is currently set to include chapter titles and two levels of headings (levels 1 and 2 subheadings). If you want, you can very easily change this to include the minimum allowed by the TIU Style Guide (level 1 subheading), or you can include all the subheadings you want. This tutorial will show you how.
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