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Microsoft Word: Producing a Thesis

Qualifications needed

A good working knowledge of MS Word is required.

Course information

NOTE: These are in-person sessions requiring attendance at the stated venue; you are required to work on the classroom machines so no other device is needed.

Writing a long, formal document such as a thesis requires more care and greater preparation than writing short ones such as essaysor reports. Time invested in learning to work efficiently before starting to write your thesis will save a good deal more later. It is much easier to make changes to formatting and other layout and structural features if they are set up correctly in the first instance.

This course cherry-picks relevant elements from several other standard MS Word courses and combines them in a single intensive delivery designed to address the requirements of creating a complex multi-chapter document. It is recommended that you should be a confident user of Word as it will not cover topics to the same depth.

Based on Word 365 for Windows (but is transferable for Office for Mac)

Past participant comments:
"Don鈥檛 start writing until you鈥檝e taken this course."
"It will save endless toil and confusion"
"I wish I had this training for my Master's thesis (at another school) because it would have saved me a lot of headache."

PLEASE NOTE: This course is NOT open to those on Undergraduate or Taught Postgraduate programmes.

Aims and objectives

This course and the accompanying workbook includes details and advice on the use of features in Word that are particularly important when writing a thesis or dissertation, including:

• Configuring and using styles to comply with thesis requirements
• Tables, illustrations and captions
• Page numbering and cross-referencing
• Structuring with sections
• Customising headers and footers
• Tables of contents/figures
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Tutors

Sonny Evans

Venue

Butts Wynd 01 Computer Classroom

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk