Dissertation Templates, Blue Book, Paper Format, and IRB Information


Last update 3 November, 2008 

But I've Never Written A Dissertation Before: A User-friendly Guide for the Preparation of the Dissertation Proposal and Dissertation (2001).Revised version of THE BLUE BOOK Word FILE November 3 2008 (BLUE BOOK PDF FILE) (only minor edits on Sept 2006 and March 2007 versions, see IRB requirements). Guide to Style and Mechanics. New Version of THE RED BOOK December 21, 2006 (only minor edits, .pdf file).  Expect to see revisions of both the revised Blue Book and the new Red book in the near future that will correct minor mistakes.   

Course Planning Guide .pdf format

Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Instructions and Format for Academic Papers and the Candidacy Paper. paperformat.doc.

What is a Scholarly Paper? Based on the work of Karen Gocsik, Darmouth and adopted for the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies

 University of Iowa Introduction to MS Word 2007.

New versions of the templates for the dissertation and for academic papers/candidacy papers are now available.  The dissertation template is DPLSdiss61.dot.  It includes all the "front" materials like acknowledgements, signature page, etc. needed for the dissertation.  The "front" material will need to be deleted for the proposal.  The first page identifying the version of the template will also need to be deleted.  The instructions that had been on the first page of the template will be available in an expanded form as template instructions.  Both the dissertation and the paper template use the same formating styles.  Instructions for the template are in DRAFT and apply to MS Word 2003.  Look for revisions in the future.

There are now two versions of the academic paper/candidacy paper template DPLSpaper62.dot and DPLSpaperTOCAbstract.dot .  The DPLSpaperTOCAbstract includes a built-in Table of Contents and Abstract.  Both are Based on DPLSdiss61.doc and use the same formating styles.  These templates were updated 6-29-05 to correct formatting of the date and move version indentification information to the end of the file.  The template that includes the Abstract and Table of contents was updated on 2-12-07 to correct the format for the page numbers and to remove the title of the paper from the Table of Contents. Revised (June 30, 2008)  Rubrics for evaluating (a) Academic Papers, (b) Candidacy Papers, and (c) Dissertations.

The Doctoral Program in Leadership requires completion of Human Participant Protection Education as a prerequisite for admission to DPLS 730 (effective Spring 2008) and prior to submission of an IRB application for students who have already complete DPLS 730.  The free, web-based course presents information about the rights and welfare of human participants in research. The two-hour tutorial is designed for those involved in conducting research involving human participants. It satisfies the NIH human subjects training requirement for obtaining Federal Funds.  The course can be found on line at http://cme.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections.asp or as a link from the Doctoral Web Site, Information for Current-Students, Dissertation-Templates,-Blue-Book,-Paper-Format,-and-IRB-Information page.  Upon successful completion of the course you will want to print a certificate of completion from your computer and provide one copy to Marnie Broughton for you file and another copy to Deborah Booth, AD Box 25, Gonzaga University.  

Gonzaga University Institutional Review Board IRB information and forms. Official GU IRB Consent Form.  Sample IRB Consent Form on Doctoral letterhead and ready to be completed.  Web-based course about the rights and welfare of human participants in research. Course