Well there you have it. I didn't mind the whole thesis writing process (I'm in the Applied Linguistics Masters program), but I really do loathe that I have to go through this stupid, idiotic format approval. This has been the worst part of my ASU experience, knowing that I have to follow guidelines that are completely absurd.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:13 AM, William Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:will.adams@frycomm.com">will.adams@frycomm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Sharon Baker wrote:<br>
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You can find it here. I had attached it to the very first email, but<br>
the admin had to delete it because he thought it might be too large<br>
and might not get to some of your inboxes. My apologies for that. I<br>
realized later I should have included the link.<br>
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<a href="http://graduate.asu.edu/formatmanual.html" target="_blank">http://graduate.asu.edu/formatmanual.html</a><br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Looking at it, it's kind of hard to take seriously given that it includes bad links like:<br>
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<a href="http://graduate.asu.edu/format/UsingStlGds.html" target="_blank">http://graduate.asu.edu/format/UsingStlGds.html</a><br>
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(apparently that should be <a href="http://graduate.asu.edu/recstyleguides.html" target="_blank">http://graduate.asu.edu/recstyleguides.html</a> )<br>
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Which begs the question of what your major of study is.<br>
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especially when one of the bad links is to:<br>
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<a href="http://graduate.asu.edu/format/FMchanges.html" target="_blank">http://graduate.asu.edu/format/FMchanges.html</a><br>
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Rather seems important for that to be up-to-date.<br>
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Also when it has contradictions like:<br>
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``You cannot rely on other theses and dissertations—whether<br>
library or departmental copies—to format your document.<br>
Someone else’s document is not an acceptable style guide.''<br>
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Yet they suggest when using a style guide from a journal to sample an article and provide that as an example.<br>
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I suspect that just adding \usepackage{mathptmx} will get one most of the way there --- certainly it'll change the look sufficiently that they won't realize that it was done using LaTeX.<div><div></div><div class="h5">
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William<br>
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-- <br>
William Adams<br>
senior graphic designer<br>
Fry Communications<br>
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.<br>
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