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From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu
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Subject: Single-spaced theses/dissertations?
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Date: 19 Jul 88 19:44:22 GMT
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Is anyone aware of any universities which accept single-spaced master's
theses and/or doctoral dissertations?

The archivist's "norm" appears to be to demand double spacing throughout
a thesis, except for occasional passages such as extended quotations.
UCLA, for instance, requires this.

Since I wholeheartedly feel that double-spaced documents are ugly, and
would love to be able to submit a dissertation formatted with single
spacing in standard LaTeX fashion, I am thinking of starting a grass-
roots effort here at UCLA to get the university archivist to change the
current format standards.  If I start doing this right now, just maybe
the change might come through by the time I've finished my dissertation
(I'm just about ready to start it now!).

If any other universities accept single spacing for theses and disserta-
tions, this fact could be very helpful to me in convincing the local
people that single spacing is not flatly unreasonable.

Alternatively, I would be interested in hearing any "war stories" about
anyone else who has tried unsuccessfully to get their university to
change a double-spacing requirement.

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