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Graduate Thesis, Capstone Project, and Dissertation Style Guide
The style guide for Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations at Dominican University of California
The following set of tutorials will walk you through some of the basics of formatting your paper in Microsoft Word for Windows. Word for Mac is similar although the menu may look different, the tools and principals still apply