Dear Savithri,
This email is in response to your request for an agreed format. Right now,
I request that my student use the format for the field in which their
research resides. In other words, if they have a major portion in the field
of psychology, they will use the APA guidelines. If their work seems
closely related to another field, they will use the format associated with
that field. I believe it is a part of their training, learning to use the
format for where their work will be published.
There is a new software program called EndNote that is supposed to enable
writers and researchers with the formats for their bibliographies and
references, helping them to switch from one format to the other. If anyone
has used this software, please let us know if it has been effective for you.
Lorraine Justice
At 05:14 PM 9/12/2003 +0100, s.bartlett wrote:
>Dear Members,
>
>I am currently writing up my PhD into the use of Laser radiation in
>altering fibre strucutres within weaves and am constantly frustrated by the
>variety of formats that arise within PhDs in Design.
>
>Would any Design Faculty Head or PhD Supervisor be able to enlighten me as
>to whether they set out certain standards to be followed by ALL doctoral
>students in Design within their Institute. Standards concerning Harvard
>vs. discursive footnotes and types of layout (such as numbered
>sub-headings, formats for glossaries and/or appendices).
>
>Having read a number of PhDs from Art & Design Institutes within the UK it
>appears that 'anything goes' when formatting a PhD. My doctoral colleagues
>within Engineering and Science, on the other hand, are given detailed
>instructions - even about the permitted font size.
>
>I would welcome your comments.
>
>Thank you,
>
>
>Savithri Bartlett (Miss)
>PhD Research Student
>
>Department of Art & Design (LUSAD)
>Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, UK
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