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Submitting Your Thesis

After you have successfully defended your thesis and have received final approval of your written thesis from all of your committee members, you will schedule a meeting with Janet Fenske to submit your thesis to ProQuest.

  • Contact information for Janet Fenske is below
  • Send Word copy of thesis to Janet Fenske at least 24 hours before your scheduled meeting

Some things to check:

  • Spell check your paper
  • Check for "orphaned" headings or subheadings (heading/subheading at the bottom of a page; corresponding paragraphs begin on next page)
    • To correct, add page break before heading/subheading
  • Reference lists and in-text citations must be in APA 7th ed. format--be consistent!
    • Journal names should be written out entirely, not abbreviated. Please capitalize each major word in the journal title. Journal titles and the volume number are in italics; the issue number is NOT in italics.
    • Article titles should be in sentence-case capitalization (only the first word capitalized, plus any proper noun or acronym, and the first word in a subtitle after the colon. Article titles are NOT in italics.
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