Writing
Your Thesis Using LaTeX or MS Word
Your
Thesis with LaTeX
Students are encouraged to use LaTeX
rather than MS Word for creating their thesis because
of the additional versatile facilities it provides, e.g. automatic
indexing, citation numbering, bibliography, etc. However,
one may find it not convenient to switch to LaTeX since he/she
has no previous experience using it. The “Your
Thesis with LaTeX in 6 Steps” package is provided
to help students in this regard. This package contains all
major information that a student might require while preparing
his/her thesis using LaTeX.
Your
Thesis with MS Word
Add iitthesis.dot
template to your MS Word templates
If you decide to write your thesis
using MS Word, you must first add the iitthesis template to
the Microsoft Word templates. To do this, the iitthesis2.dot
template file should be saved on your hard disk under the
templates folder available at:
Documents and settings\’your username’ \Application
data\Microsoft\templates\
In this way, MS Word will add it to its general templates.
Note that this folder is a hidden one and you should activate
Show hidden files and folders in your explorer folder
options to see it. If this is done correctly, a template
icon with the iitthesis name will appear in the File/New
window under the General tab. Simply select iitthesis
and open a new document.
iitthesis MS Word Template
iitthesis.dot template provides a basic
thesis layout, which meets the IIT thesis manual requirement.
It consists of the following parts:
- Cover page
- Acknowledgement
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Symbols
- Abstract
- Appendix
- Bibliography
plus
- 5 Chapters each having 3 sections.
(You may delete chapter and sections or add extra ones in
case your thesis has a different number of chapters and
sections).
In addition, one sample figure as well
as one sample table with the relevant sub notes are provided.
The template is made using MS Word fields. Each field can
be selected by clicking on it and you may then begin entering
text.
Style Elements Template
This
template has defined several style elements for Microsoft
Word. You can cut-and-paste one- or two-line figure titles
and table titles and insert columns and rows as needed to
formatted tables.
Remarks
This template only provides a basic
layout of what is required (i.e. contrary to the LaTeX template,
it is not “intelligent” enough to automatically
number pages, figures and tables, or create a bibliography).
Therefore, all of the following should be done manually:
- Number pages, tables and figures,
and their related numbers in the Table of Contents page
- Provide bibliography parts and
the relevant citations
- Revise the above items if any related
changes are made (e.g. a figure/table/page is added or deleted)
Download
iitthesis2.dot (145KB)
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