Printing your thesis
At last! You are ready to print your final thesis. This section will help you.
At last! You are ready to print your final thesis. This section will help you.- Checklist – before printing
- One side or two?
- Backup (ongoing)
- During printing
- Printing process (in-house publishing, converting your thesis to PDF, binding)
Checklist – before printing
Return to Checklist – chapter by chapter and recheck all points.
Show Print Preview (Word 2010)
Show Print Preview (Word 2010)Go to File > Print and click on the Page Setup link (below Settings). These are preset in UniSA sample template, but check just in case (left margin 3.5 cm, other margins 2 cm, header and footer 1.5 cm, paper size A4, portrait).
How the page(s) look is shown in the right-hand side of this screen (Print Preview).
In Print Preview, scroll through the whole thesis and check that:
| all sections are present and in the right order (see UniSA guidelines for thesis presentation) | |
| page breaks are correctly placed – check particularly for widows and orphans (single lines detached from paragraphs) | |
| headings are not detached from their following text | |
| pages are correctly numbered – preliminary pages Roman numbers, Contents on page i, Chapter 1 starts on page 1 | |
| captions are attached to figures, tables and other objects | |
| footnotes or endnotes are correctly sited and numbered | |
| any footers and headers are correctly sited and formatted (see View > Header and Footer) | |
| the reference list is correctly formatted and alphabetically sorted | |
| lists of contents, figures and tables are up to date and correctly formatted |
During printing
DO print a few pages to begin with to check that everything is as it should be.
DON'T set your printer to do the whole thesis in one hit.
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Last modified: Thursday, 17 March 2016, 11:16 AM