How To Create ETD Files
What
is an ETD? | Creating
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What is an ETD?
An
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) is a document that
explicates the research of a graduate student- it is expressed in a
form simultaneously suitable for machine archives and worldwide
retrieval.
Similar to paper...
The ETD is similar to its paper predecessor. It has figures,
tables, footnotes, and references. It has a title page with your
name, the name of your school, and the names of your committee
members. It documents your years of academic commitment. It
describes why the work was done, how the research relates to previous
work as recorded in the literature, the research methods used, the
results, and the interpretation and discussion of the results, and a
summary with conclusions.
Only different...
The ETD is different, though. It provides a technologically-advanced medium for expressing
your ideas. You
prepare your ETD using nearly any word processor or document
preparation system, incorporating relevant multimedia objects, without
the requirement to submit multiple copies on 50% cotton bond paper.
Consequently, ETDs are less expensive to prepare, consume virtually no
library shelf space, and never collect dust. They are available to
anyone that can browse the Web.
Creating PDF
Files
Workshops to assist you on producing a ETD are
offered by the Design Center, Communications Building, 211D, on the Huntington
campus.South Charleston campus please contact Dr. Teresa Eagle t.eagle@marshall.edu for assistance.
For additional information about access to Adobe Acrobat Pro and other pdf software, see the Submission Process page, Document
Conversion section.
Suggestions for ETD
Development
We encourage the use of all of the available options in Adobe Acrobat. By doing so, your ETD will be easier to view and browse
and will encourage users to navigate through your entire ETD. These
options will add to the look and feel of the document.
Some of these include:
- Adding Bookmarks
- Adding Thumbnails
- Adding Yellow Stickies
- Adding Links to the List of Figures
- Adding Links to the List of Tables
- Adding Links to the Table of Contents
- Linking to Internal Multimedia Objects
- Linking to External Multimedia Objects
- Adding Hyperlinks
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