7 Piddly Tips to Save Time and Money
On Your Thesis or Dissertation Manuscript
by Mary Beth Haines, Ph.D.
Some things we find out the hard way. When close to the end of a dissertation or thesis, getting it ready for formal copies to be made and prepared for the printer, there are some things to remember. When you don’t know these things, they can create a lot of extra time, frustration, and expense involved in preparing the manuscript. The following tips are things I learned the hard way. They are piddly-sounding details, but they can make tons of difference.
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Allow extra time for a cushion. Even when it’s only a day or two, be prepared for the little things that
always come up.
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Make sure that you have more than one copy of the dissertation. If your computer crashes at this last, critical stage and the only copy of the final version was on your hard drive, you could take up to another 2-4 weeks trying to recreate the document.
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Never send more pages at a time to the printer than it’s designed to handle. Printers do jam and break from such a minor seeming thing, so save yourself the frustration and expense.
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Figure out little things first. Try going online, if it isn’t built into the program, to find templates and fixes that can make formatting your document easier ahead of time.
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Make sure you are stocked up on ink or toner. An extra trip to the store isn’t what you need now, especially if it’s after store hours.
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Ink jet printer pages need to dry before being put together. Sure, you never noticed a problem before, but they will smear a bit: do you want the printed version to have those smears?
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Double check that the pages are in the right order.
Don’t count on the publisher to take care of this for you.
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