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Post by 7788 » Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:01 am

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The ociamthesis.cls was written by Keith A. Gillow. The latest version (2.2) was released on 22/11/2010. The class is based upon the standard report class around which most people design their thesis. Key features are

• It defines the page size allowing for an offset for binding.
• It defines the layout of the title page including title, logo / crest, name, college, submittedtext, degree name, degree date.
• It uses the current university branding square logo by default (but can also use the older shield crest or belt crest).
• Dedication page environment (layout as a verse).
• Acknowledgements page environment (layout as a quote).
• Alternative acknowledgementslong environment form which isn't set out as a quote.
• Statement of Originality environment (originality) and long version (originalitylong). Formatting similar to acknowledgements enviroments.
• Abstract page environment (layout as a quote).
• Alternative abstractlong environment form which isn't set out as a quote.
• Alternative abstractseparate environment form which isn't set out as a quote and has all the title page info on as well (useful for the separate copy required when you submit the final copy to the Bodleian Library).
• Romanpages environment to number frontmatter pages in lower case roman.
• Support for twoside and openright document class options

Here is an example of how to use this class in a master latex document .

The structure of the dedications file (called dedications.tex in the example) is

\begin{dedication} This thesis is dedicated to\\ someone\\ for some special reason\\ \end{dedication}

The structure of the abstract (abstract.tex) file is of the form

\begin{abstract} plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle. \end{abstract}

and the structure of the acknowledgements (acknowledgements.tex) file is of the form

\begin{acknowledgements} plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle, plenty of waffle. \end{acknowledgements}

This example PDF file shows some of the sort of output this class generates . This example output uses the gillow bibliography style file which is a very minor modification to the plain bibliography style.

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Current university logo / branding.

As of version 2.2 the default is to use a graphical logo with file name oxlogo.eps (for LaTeX) or oxlogo.pdf (for PDFLaTeX).

The Mathematical Institute Linux systems have the class and logo files installed by default. If you are using this document class on another system you will need to obtain a suitable logo file to go with the class file available from this page. You can obtain this from the university's official branding page and/or via the university's visual identity guidelines page, or by taking a copy of the files on the Linux system (just use the command locate oxlogo to find the file).

Previous Logos / Branding

It is still possible to use the older metafont logo of either the belt crest or shield crest by using the new (as of version 2.2) options beltcrest or shieldcrest in the documentclass line, i.e.

documentclass line for old belt crest logo using the beltcrest metafont

\documentclass[12pt,beltcrest]{ociamthesis}

documentclass line for older shield crest logo using the crest metafont

\documentclass[12pt,shieldcrest]{ociamthesis}

In these cases then either the metafont file oxcrest40 or oxbeltcrest installed (for legacy use) on the Maths Institute system are used.

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Graduate College's requirements for document formatting, plus tutorial videos and annotated samples

Formatting requirements.

Starting Spring 2024, the Graduate College will release a new set of Thesis/Dissertation templates and requirement checklists. The requirements have been carefully reviewed and discussed with interdisciplinary consultants to optimize Iowa State University theses and dissertations for  accessibility, usability, readability,  and  consistency. Definitions of these priorities are provided in the glossary, below. The updated requirements also take into account basic academic norms and variation across disciplines. This page lays out the requirements that will be put into place. 

One aim of releasing these format requirement updates at this time is to ensure that the Graduate College is in compliance with  Iowa State University's Digital Accessibility policy , which will go into full effect in July 2026.

Protocols for Requirements and Recommendations

Requirements.

Iowa State University thesis/dissertation reviewers will check all theses and dissertations submitted to ProQuest after the student passes their Final Oral Exam. Where the submitted mansucript fails to meet one or more requirements, the reviewer will issue a request for revisions. Students must implement these revisions and resubmit their manuscript within one week of the submission deadline for that semester. If the requirements still are not met, the reviewer will issue another request for revisions. The thesis/dissertation  will not be accepted until all requirements are met , even if this results in a delay to the student's graduation.

Recommendations

Students are strongly encouraged to implement these recommendations, which enhance usability, readability, and consistency in theses/dissertations. Iowa State University thesis/dissertation reviewers will check all theses and dissertations submitted to ProQuest after the student passes their Final Oral Exam. Where the submitted mansucript fails to meet one or more recommendations, the reviewer will issue a single request for students to revise.  If the thesis/dissertation is resubmitted without the recommendations implemented, it will be acceptable.  It is important to note that theses and dissertations cannot be revised after they are accepted. Students who resubmit theses and dissertations that do not follow the recommendations will not have another chance to improve the appearance of their manuscript. 

Grace Period (Gradual Implementation)

To accommodate students who are currently close to completing their thesis/dissertation, and who started their writing process with the old templates, there will be a  12-month grace period from January 2024-December 2024 . During this grace period:

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• Only the Continuing Format Requirements will be treated as  requirements .
• Starting in January 2025,  the New Format Requirements will be treated as  requirements .

The following section delineates the differences between  recommendations  and  requirements .

New Format Requirements for 2024

Prior to January 2024, these requirements have not been listed in the checklist or enforced by Iowa State University thesis/dissertation reviewers. Graduate students and faculty are advised to carefully review the new requirements. Tutorials and support will be available to students to ensure they have the skills to incorporate these requirements into their thesis/dissertation manuscripts. 

Continuing Format Requirements

These requirements have been listed in the checklist and enforced by Iowa State University thesis/dissertation reviewers since the last template update. Tutorials and support will continue to be available to students to ensure they have the skills to incorporate these requirements into their thesis/dissertation manuscripts.

Discontinued Format Requirements (No Longer Required After November 30, 2023)

Some requirements listed in the checklist prior to January 2024 will now be designated as recommendations.

Definitions of major priorities for updated thesis/dissertation format requirements

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Techniques for formatting theses/dissertations according to the Graduate College's requirements are demonstrated in a series of step-by-step videos.

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How formal should the dedication section in a master thesis be? [closed]

I want to make a little practical joke in the dedication of my master thesis. It's nothing extraordinary, and it's harmless, but it is all but formal.

I searched around and found this answer that states, as I already thought, that the acknowledgements section is not so formal and I can write it the way I want, but in terms of the dedication, it doesn't state anything.

Will the academia receive it well if I make this little practical joke in the dedication page, or should I write something a little more formal?

• 3 This is a question for your advisor. The answer can differ greatly in time and place. In some places it might be seen as very rude, in others, no problem. Ask. –  Buffy Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 16:20
• I see. I will ask my advisor what is her opinion in this matter. Thank you very much! –  undisp Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 16:33
• I second @Buffy. I'd like to add that some restrictions may appear not obvious to the candidate himself, but pretty transparent or familiar to the advisor. For example, I was once strongly discouraged to use a certain (more "modern") LaTeX template in my PhD thesis. Don't ask me why, I've changed universities since and I am pretty sure it'd be Ok in my new place. –  Oleg Lobachev Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 20:33

You could wander to your department library and check the dedication page of several master's theses to see what other students have done.

In my case the department keeps a copy of every MSc and PhD thesis ever produced by students in the department, and they are available in the department library. I looked at a couple dozen. Most of them had some happy little thing like a line of poetry or something. A student who finished during my course work put the following on his dedication page.

One and One make Three

That's because he and his wife had a child during his grad work. On my PhD thesis dedication page I first gave a gushy thanks to my supervisor. Then I included a quote from Yoda, and a quote from a song by the music group Queen.

I think as long as it's generally not nasty it will be OK.

You can also get some general ideas about format, writing style, citations, etc. Maybe the people who did the binding will have left little notes in the cover so you can find out where to get that done.

And, hey, the content might even be interesting.

• This is probably fine in some places, like most places in the US, but others are very formal. If you find lighthearted stuff then you are likely ok. But if you don't...? So, don't make assumptions. Ask for guidance. Even in a permissive place, an individual advisor might object. –  Buffy Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 18:24
• (Unfortunately) I think @Buffy is right on this one. I would like to think that every jury is as permissive as one can be and wouldn't mind about a little practical joke on a personal section like the dedication page, but it isn't always that way. Even though I don't think that there will be any problem with what I want to do, I will ask the opinion of my advisor, just to make sure. –  undisp Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 19:07
• 1 Upvote for looking at predecessors. I did exactly that in my MSc thesis and have even nailed some things that appeared natural to me then, but were quite field-dependent in the hindsight. –  Oleg Lobachev Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 20:34
• Wow, Buffy and undisp. I'm sorry you understood "look at previous work" to be "do what I did and don't pay the least attention to what you find in your department's library." Good thing I didn't tell the story about "if you get this far I owe you a beer." –  user94256 Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 20:42

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Some pave the way for lucrative careers, others offer excellent job security, some make a significant difference in people's lives, and others fulfill a deep-seated curiosity to understand the world better. The latter was a driving force for UND alum Tasha Cahill when she chose to pursue a degree in nutrition. Reflecting on her journey, she shares, "The more I learned about the human body, the more I wanted to understand how food actually worked in the body. I had many burning questions that Google searches wouldn't satisfy."

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So, case … closed?

No. Now, it’s 2024, and Pip isn’t satisfied with this conclusion. Pippa could research the case in her spare time, but where’s the fun in that? She is going to prove Sal innocent for her Extended Project Qualification — get ready to hear the acronym EPQ endlessly — which is the British way to describe a senior-year thesis mixed with a college application essay. While you maybe wrote something about being on the debate team for your college essay, and I wrote about being in theater, Pippa solved a whole damn murder case.

Apart from school, there’s another reason why Pippa is doing this; frankly, it’s a little flimsy. Pippa believes Sal to be innocent because he was kind to her as a kid. “Good guys don’t kill people,” Pippa tells her best friend, Cara Ward (Asha Banks). Important to note: Cara is the younger sister of Sal’s friend Naomi (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), meaning Pip grew up around sweet Sal. Plus, if Sal didn’t do it, that also means that the killer is still lurking around Little Kilton. But, c’mon … good guys do kill people, Pippa. It’s the oldest plot twist in the book.

There are a lot of timestamps, receipts, and case-related history the first episode has to get across, and for the most part, the show seamlessly integrates this into Pippa’s conversations. Sometimes, though, we get a clunky exposition moment — like when we’re forced to watch Pip build a crime-scene wall in her room, circling her Persons of Interest in red ink and writing zingers like “WHERE WAS SAL?” on her timeline. Well, Pippa, that’s the question, isn’t it? No need to emulate John Krasinki’s whiteboard in A Quiet Place here; we got the gist before you literally spelled it out for us.

Pippa begins with an obvious, if amateur, plan. Armed with a tin of homemade muffins, Pip bribes Ravi Singh (Zain Iqbal), the cute younger brother of Sal, to talk to her. These two really kick it off. The pheromones are pheremoning as the pair chat literature, homework, and school. But Pippa soon swings in with a big confession: These muffins were actually baked to convince Ravi to spill the deets about his dead brother.

Ravi, peeved that Pip pulled a bait and switch, tells her to leave him alone. He has every right to be wary about Pippa. Not only did Ravi lose his older brother, townsfolk have been traumatizing the Singh family ever since Sal’s death. I am firmly planted in the “Protect Ravi at All Costs” camp. Get a job! Stay away from him!

Pippa carries out yet another ill-advised plan. Later, while hanging out with Cara, Pip uses her as a way to further wedge herself into the case. Pip wants to interview Naomi for her EPQ. Cara brushes her off; Naomi is too depressed about the Sal case to get involved. But Pippa ignores her friend’s request, sneaks out of the room, and tiptoes downstairs to find Naomi, who is mumbling something about missing jammy dodgers. Pip immediately uses that as a way in: Speaking of missing , does Naomi remember where she was on April 19, 2019, the night Andie Bell disappeared?

Naomi hesitantly recalls the night. Before Andie went missing, Sal was kicking it at Max Hastings’s (Henry Ashton) house with Naomi. They were playing Super Mario Party, which is important for two reasons. First, the exact game will later be contested. Second, Mario Party is the best game, and it’s inconceivable that anyone playing it could be a killer. Pip should factor this key detail into her EPQ. Sal left at 10:30 p.m., and was only seen later at 12:50 a.m. by his dad when he returned home.

Pip wants more info on some alibi Naomi mentioned. Well, wouldn’t you know it! Pip’s mom (Anna Maxwell Martin) just so happens to be in a book club with Ms. Hastings, who is just so happening looking for waitresses to work a big Hastings family party this weekend. Thus, Max becomes Pippa’s next target. Pip drags Cara along with her to serve Champagne at the event, as if betraying her and interviewing Naomi weren’t enough.

To make matters worse, Pippa abandons bottle-girl duty, stalking Max down to the basement. Poor Cara! But Pip gets what’s coming to her: Max is a scumbag. Pippa demands answers about Sal’s alibi, but Max wants a “quid pro quo” deal where he gets something out of the conversation, too. For every question he answers, Pippa must take a shot. That’s what you get for treating sweet Cara like trash.

Pippa starts downing shots and Max finally offers some long-awaited insight. Shot: What is this alibi Naomi mentioned? Chaser: Sal asked Max and his friends to lie to the police and say he actually left at 12:50 a.m., which he didn’t. Sal’s friends told the police the truth. Shot: What were they doing that night? Chaser: They were playing FIFA, not Mario Party . Shot: What did Max know about Sal’s new girlfriend? Chaser: Max “literally never spoke” to Andie.

Max is an untrustworthy douchebag. FIFA and not Super Mario Party ? Bail, Pippa.

While exiting the party, a drunken Pip confesses to Cara that she also interviewed Naomi. They have a screaming match, Cara continues to be far too good a friend for Pip, and both leave the party in tears. Perhaps it’s time for Pip to hit pause on this EPQ and research, I don’t know, literally anything else? But, again: This is Pippa Fitz-Amobi we’re talking about. She may not be sporting her overalls — unless they’re on underneath her glitzy waitress costume — but that bob is going to keep bobbing.

Pip rolls up to the Singh household after the party, tears clinging to her eyes. Ravi tells her to go away again, but she rambles on about how important this is to her. Finally, he cracks. Ravi has something he’s been dying to show someone, anyone , for the past five years: Sal’s phone. On it, two messages could prove Sal’s innocence.

The first, on April 19: “Goin 2 Max house after school 2nite will be bak late”

The second, on April 22: “It was me. I did it. I’m so sorry.”

Sal never typed out any punctuation. He simplified “to” to “2.” Why, then, would his confession be so perfectly written? There’s only one answer here, Pip and Ravi agree: Someone else sent the confession. Now that Pip’s persistence has finally won her a singular ally — who, lucky for her, is a key witness in the case — there’s actually a solid reason for her to continue the investigation.

Ring a Bell?

• Pippa reads Jane Eyre at the corner store while her friends steal booze. (Again: Not Like the Other Girls ™.) Cute factoid: Charlotte Brontë wrote the novel under the pen name Currer Bell. Andie Bell, Currer Bell. Related? Side note: Couldn’t Pippa have done her EPQ on, say, bildungsroman novels?

• Pip’s friend Lauren (Yali Topol Margalith), a tertiary character in this saga, is also at the Hastings party, on a date with a guy named Ant (Monty Eliot). (Ant?!?) Pip hates Ant because he says “pacifically” instead of “specifically.” This show is really great at a realistic characterization of teens — there were at least three of these guys in my high school.

• Some guy at the Hastings party tells Pippa to stop being so nosy and plays the old “Got your nose!” trick on her. “Dark forces are at work here,” Pippa whispers to Cara. “A good-looking man just tried to steal my nose.”

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Dedication page in article class

Alignment of dedication page in the document class article .

The alignment is moving horizontally but not vertical. Am i missing something here?

Using Texmaker in Linux.

• vertical-alignment

• 2 Try to use \vspace*{6ex} . –  Sigur Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 21:19
• @rnish Have you considered to accept any answer here? I thin egrep's answer is very good. –  Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 21:38

2 Answers 2

Probably a different approach is better. Choose yourself the proportion of white space at the top and the bottom (here it's 1:3).

For producing the image below, I added the showframe option to geometry .

• I get such an output pasteboard.co/1xn5gUam9.png Is that a purpose to have it the bottom? Is it a standard? I think the much white space is a Honourable space. - - Please, add an output to your answer. –  Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 21:34
• 1 @Masi I added it (with showframe to clearly mark the page boundaries). –  egreg Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 21:52
• Why is your output that way but my output wrong? - - Is this necessary \usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=30mm,right=20mm,top=25mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry} ? –  Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 22:13
• @Masi Not at all; those were the settings of the OP. –  egreg Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 22:16
• But how can you include the dedication at such location? Why is my location so different? - - Maybe some complication. Any workaround? –  Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 22:40

As this is the first Google result for "latex dedication", I'd like to contribute a simpler way for dedications in Latex, which I adapted from here :

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