Graduation Thesis help spot

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about the writing of a B.A. thesis (Lucrare de licenta), MA dissertation or 1st Degree in Teaching (Gradul I). You may ask questions there (and you do not need an user name for that), or you can browse through the many answers already given there.

You may read here the old format FAQ (one single file, printable)

Thesis kit

• Downolad:
  • 1. Two Templates in the New MLA Style (=Sabloane document in stil MLA nou): Template for Licenta Papers> and the Template for MA Dissertations. You should use this as a basis of your paper. The template offers:
    • Automated headers including your Name and Title
    • Automated Creation of Table of Contents. No more last-minute hassles with Table of Contents going wrong!
    • Automated and uniform formatting of your Indented Quotations, Definitions and Bibliographies.
    • Formatting of the Title Page according to the latest norms.

  • 2. The Template Use Guide explaining how to properly install the Template. The guide has screen captions (all for MS Word 2003) helping you to progress step by step into the installation of the both the template and the hot-keys (key combinations) that automate it.

  • 3. The STYLE SHEET (=instructions for Citation and Formatting) for the both Licenta and Masters theses. This explains in detail -- in Romanian for your convenience-- with numerous screen captures:
    • How to properly use quotations and parenthetical references in MLA 2009
    • An example-based presentation of the NEW MLA Style (2009) in comparison with the OLD MLA.
    • What to do with Google Books, Torrents materials, eNotes and Wikipedia
    • How to use the right punctuation that should not "scratch" the eye of your readers

  • 4. The fonts that work with the package in 2 sets: Font 1 (Garamond) and Font 2 (Bookman Old Style) These are fonts that print beautifully, are often used in proffessional typography, and look much better than the ungainly and ubiquitous Times New Roman.
    
    • Note that both fonts are already integrated within the Templates (which explains why that 3-page document is so big!) and you do not normally need to install these fonts. We placed them here just in case you might wish to have them on your system.

  • 5. A Test for Track Changes - download it, open it and try the different visualisations explained in the Tutorial. Make changes in the test, send the test to your colleagues and invite them to visualise your changes. Practise until you get familiar with Track Changes.

Testimonials

See here several testimonials and learn what our former alumni have to say about the writing of a graduation thesis.

Since nobody ever seems to listen to what teachers have to say, I thought this would be a better idea: to let your colleagues have to say about their experience.

Tutorials

• How to use Track Changes? (Otoiu tutorial)

External tutorials

• How to work with styles?
  • Very clear video tutorial by Lynda explaining why we should use styles & the basics of styles in Word 2007 but useful for all users of any Word edition
  • Static tutorial for Word 2003 at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
  • A video tutorial at VTC - Word 2003
  • How to create your own styles by Lynda

• How to generate the Table of Contents?
• Very clear video tutorial about How to create a Table of Contents in Word 2003 (2-minute video)
• Video tutorial about Creating a Table of Contents in Word 2007 (7-minute video)
• Irish video tutorial about Creating a Table of Contents in Word 2010 (5-minute video)

• How to update a Table of Contents?
  (this is all you need to know if you work with the Template that is available on my website)
• Short video tutorial showing how to update a Table of Contents in Word 2003. (1 min 23 s)
• Video tutorial on Updating the Table of Contents in Word 2010 (virtually identical with Word 2007) (1 min 52 s)

• How to create an Index?

Forthcoming soon...

• How to communicate wih your supervisor?
• How to create an Index?

List of Theses in English

A database of BA and MA theses in English Language, Culture and Literature defended at UNBM.

By clicking on the upper tabs (above the file) you may view these theses ordered by:

author (alphabetically),
title,
year,
supervisor,
field
country
or subject.