<div class="gmail_quote"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div>Dear Graduates:<br><br>This is important information concerning the submission of dissertations and theses. Keep this info!<br><br>Dr. Franklin<br>
<br><br><br><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Armstrong, Sara <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 27, 2011 10:57 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> TAD Services: Important information for Advisors and Grad Chairs</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hello grad chairs, departmental and college contacts,<br>
<br>I wanted to take a few moments to thank you for your hard work this quarter, and provide a few resources for you in advising students regarding sending their documents to Thesis and Dissertation (TAD) Services.<br><br>
As we expect more students to try to graduate in AY 2011-12 before the change over to Semesters, we hope you will pass this information on to graduate advisors. We hope to help students as much as possible and are expecting very large quarters for Spring and Summer 2012. Your assistance in getting the information to advisors and students is greatly appreciated. Everything can be found on our website <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/tad" target="_blank">www.ohio.edu/tad</a>.<br>
<br><b>Templates:</b> <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/etd/templates2.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/etd/templates2.cfm</a><br>TAD Services <i>highly</i> encourages students to go to our website and download an appropriate copy of our MS Word or LaTeX template. This template can save several hours of document formatting and is a much better option than copying off an older manuscript. The templates are kept up to date and we check them yearly for errors. The front matter is very precisely formatted and must be kept in tact otherwise TAD Services cannot accept the document. For review, we prefer the MS word version of a document unless it is being prepared in LaTeX, for which we prefer PDF.<br>
<br><b>Deadlines: </b>(attached)<br>We update our deadline sheet around this time for each academic year. I am attaching the <i>AY 2011-12 Deadline (Tentative)</i> list to this email, but it will also be found on our website under Valuable Information after everything is finalized. Please remind advisors and students that the final document deadline is firm and cannot be moved and therefore they need to plan oral defenses accordingly. We encourage you to print out a finalized copy and make it visible if possible.<br>
<br><b>Timelines:<br></b>Thesis: <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/manage/upload/TAD-Thesis-Timeline.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/manage/upload/TAD-Thesis-Timeline.pdf</a><br>Doctoral: <a href="http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/manage/upload/TAD-Disssertation-Timeline.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/manage/upload/TAD-Disssertation-Timeline.pdf</a><br>
We offer a one-page general timeline to help students plan ahead to graduate on schedule. These are very general suggestions that keep the student on, or ahead of, schedule. <br><br><b>Workshops: </b>(attached)<br>MS Word, Graduation and Tables and Figures Workshops are offered by TAD Services to assist students in filing a thesis or dissertation manuscript before graduating. These workshops are recommended, but not required. We find the best results when students attend a workshop in the quarter <i>BEFORE </i>they intend to graduate. Many students who attend these workshops find them helpful and informative. TAD services will also be happy to speak in front of a class to discuss use of the templates, go over style and formatting guidelines and the steps to graduation. We are currently finalizing the schedule for AY 2011-12, with an increased number of courses beginning in January through the end of the Academic year as we expect more students to try to complete the process before the change over to Semesters. Registration is preferred and students can email <a href="http://tad@ohio.edu" target="_blank">tad@ohio.edu</a> with their name, email address and which workshops they want to attend.<br>
<br><b>Appointments:<br></b>Appointments are available by request, but with only one full-time staff member, we are trying to keep the number of one-on-one meetings to a minimum and encourage students to attend workshops. TAD Services suggests a format review before scheduling an appointment to determine if the situation really calls for face time. Please encourage students to send documents in for format reviews before the oral defense and to avoid appointments in the two weeks leading up to the final document deadlines. <br>
<br>Thank you for your time and assistance. We have a large number of last-minute students this quarter and many will not graduate in their intended quarter. We hope to avoid that in the future.<br><br>Sara Armstrong<br>-- <br>
Sara Armstrong<br>Assistant Director, Thesis and Dissertation Services<br>Research and Technology Center <br>Second Floor, Room 220<br>Athens, OH 45701-2979<br><br><b>Follow us on Twitter:</b> <a href="http://twitter.com/TADServicesOU" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/TADServicesOU</a> <br>
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<div><p></p><p><font size="2" color="#333399" face="Tahoma">Dr. Teresa Franklin</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Professor, Instructional
Technology</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Instructional Technology Program
Coordinator</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Dept. Educational
Studies</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Gladys W. & David H. Patton
College of Education and Human Services</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Ohio University</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>Athens, OH 45701</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>
740-593-4561 (office)</font><font size="2" color="#333399" face="tahoma"><br>740-593-0477 (fax)</font><font size="2" face="tahoma"><br>also: <a href="mailto:franklinteresa@gmail.com" target="_blank">franklinteresa@gmail.com</a></font></p>
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