ABSTRACT
Dissertations used to be presented in a typed form, and the accepted styles continue to carry forward this tradition. There are many fonts available to typical word-processing packages, but relatively few are used for dissertations, with 'Times New Roman' (or equivalent) being most typical, and sometimes 'Arial'. Word-processors with automatic spacing should be 'left justified'. Because of the limited number of words allowed by the dissertation margins, type that is right-and-left (or 'fully') justified leaves uneven, awkward spaces between words, and makes reading difficult. The final draft of the manuscript should be clearly written or, preferably, draft-typed. No matter how poorly typed it may be in the first place, typescript is much easier for a typist to work from than manuscript, or better still, supplied already on disk in a suitable word-processor format, so that it can be edited on-screen rather than completely re-typed.
