phd sample thesis

The student’s department determines the style for footnotes, bibliographies, tables, chapter headings, etc. The student and the thesis/dissertation advisor are responsible for the content of the manuscript and for ensuring that the manuscript is edited for spelling, grammar, organization, stylistic consistency, correct sequence of pages, and agreement between the table of contents and the contents of the manuscript. The Graduate School is responsible for monitoring formatting requirements of dissertations and theses. The specifications of Wayne State University’s Graduate School for dissertation manuscript formatting are primary requirements and take precedence over all styles and other guidelines for margins, spacing, pagination, order of parts, etc. Questions should be addressed to the Ph.D. Office at 313-577-2170 or phdstudents@wayne.edu. Wayne State University’s Graduate School Format Manual.
Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Prof. _______ for the continuous support of my Ph.D study and related research, for his patience, motivation, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my Ph.D study. Besides my advisor, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee: Prof. __________, Prof. ___________, and Dr. ____________, for their insightful comments and encouragement, but also for the hard question which incented me to widen my research from various perspectives. My sincere thanks also goes to Dr. _________, Dr. ______________, and Dr. __________, who provided me an opportunity to join their team as intern, and who gave access to the laboratory and research facilities. Without they precious support it would not be possible to conduct this research.   I thank my fellow labmates in for the stimulating discussions, for the sleepless nights we were working together before deadlines, and for all the fun we have had in the last four years. Also I thank my friends in the following institution __________________________. In particular, I am grateful to Dr. Chen Fan for enlightening me the first glance of research. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents and to my brothers and sister for supporting me spiritually throughout writing this thesis and my my life in general.
The CGL is available to assist graduate students in the formatting of their dissertation or thesis.  Below are some basic tips to get you started: Manual of Formatting Requirements for Dissertations and Thesis 2015 Designed to assist graduate students, major professors and other members of the graduate advisory committees in understanding the formatting requirements for theses and dissertations at UNC Charlotte.  Submission Procedures An aid in understanding the procedures to follow when submitting your dissertation and/or thesis. Sample Pages Examples of dissertation and thesis pages, including: Tips to Formatting a Dissertation and Thesis Become familiar with the Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Manual (above). It is strongly suggested that you print a copy of this manual for ready reference. Make an appointment with Ms. Anita Smith in the Graduate School to perform an initial review of your dissertation or thesis before your defense.  A post-defense review of your dissertation/thesis is necessary after you have defended and completed the final draft.  Bring a printed copy of your document to the review appointment. Appointment times are available Monday through Thursday. To make an appointment, email Ms. Anita Smith at afsmith@uncc.edu. After all necessary revisions are complete, convert the final version of the dissertation or thesis to.pdf format in preparation for electronic submission. The name of the.pdf file should be in this format “lastname-firstname-year-degree.pdf”—e.g., doe-john-2007-phd.pdf, all lowercase. After converting your file to the.pdf format, be sure to check it for the following: Did you name the main file in the proper format? (lastname-firstname-year-degree.pdf—e.g., doe-john-2007-phd.pdf). Is the ETD file name in lower case letters? Check that the ETD has the proper pagination format: title/signature page (no page number), copyright.
Amy K. Anderson, 2014 “Image/Text and Text/Image: Reimagining Multimodal Relationships through Dissociation” Abstract: “W.J.T. Mitchell has famously noted that we are in the midst of a “pictorial turn,” and images are playing an increasingly important role in digital and multimodal communication. My dissertation addresses the question of how meaning is made when texts and images are united in multimodal arguments. Visual rhetoricians have often attempted to understand text-image arguments by privileging one medium over the other, either using text-based rhetorical principles or developing new image-based theories. I argue that the relationship between the two media is more dynamic, and can be better understood by applying The New Rhetoric’s concept of dissociation, which Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca developed to demonstrate how the interaction of differently valued concepts can construct new meaning. My dissertation expands the range of dissociation by applying it specifically to visual contexts and using it to critique visual arguments in a series of historical moments when political, religious, and economic factors cause one form of media to be valued over the other: Byzantine Iconoclasm, the late medieval period, the 1950’s advertising boom, and the modern digital age. In each of these periods, I argue that dissociation reveals how the privileged medium can shape an entire multimodal argument. I conclude with a discussion of dissociative multimodal pedagogy, applying dissociation to the multimodal composition classroom.” Holly F. Osborn, 2014 “Apparitional Economies: Spectral Imagery in the Antebellum Imagination” Abstract: “Apparitional Economies is invested in both a historical consideration of economic conditions through the antebellum era and an examination of how spectral representations depict the effects of such conditions on local publics and.