Proven checklist for Thesis proofreading

Nov 6, 2022

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Dr Tushar Chauhan

Before submitting a thesis for review, students have to perform in-depth thesis proofreading to avoid common mistakes. Here is the checklist for thesis proofreading.

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Check the Structure of a thesis. The ideal chronological order is abstract, introduction, review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion and references.

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Check grammar, spelling and punctuation errors. You can use tools like Grammarly for this.

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Check the synch of thesis tense and tone and, English style. Carefully select words.

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Check technical parameters. For example, text style- Times New Roman, Text size- 12, space- 1.5 and marginated text.

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Check the citation and references. Correlated citations with each reference and manually check all citations.

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Check the continuity of citations and referencing style throughout the thesis. Use only a single or recommended style.

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Check the navigation, heading and subheading, list of figures, and list of tables with the page numbers.

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Check the continuity of the header and footer matter. For example, the chapter number and name in the header and the thesis title and page number in the footer.

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Check typographical errors, for example, red/read or of/off and Inappropriate use of apostrophes.

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This checklist helps you to correct almost 90 to 95% of mistakes in your thesis. I hope you like the story, please share it. And read the full article from our blog.

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