For an thesis or an MS report:

• Use the standard LaTex style-file for UNL, courtesy of Ned W. Hummel (Department of Math @ UNL).


• Your bibliography must be in named style (the files are named.sty and named.bst, which can of course find from the web). Be careful to the use of \cite and \shortcite.


• Organize your reports according to the templates: Thesis organization; Chapter organization. I will extend these templates and refine them as time permits and thanks to your feedback (and our errors).


• The first chapter must summarize your contributions and provide a road map to the chapters of the thesis, including the appendices.


• Each chapter must start some text (not in a section) providing an introduction and a road map.


• Each chapter must finish with a summary (a section without a number, use \section*{Summary}) summarizing the content of the chapter. Simply list the topics discussed in the chapter. The idea behind including such a section is the following. Assume that the reader (committee memember) interrupted reading your thesis to listen to the news on TV. When they resume reading your dissertation, you want them to be able to read the summary of the chapter where they left off, and keep going from there. So, keep it as short as possible.


• Each report/thesis must have one or more appendices with the structure of the code (directories and files) and the documentation of the functions. Use the LaTex environment for documentation (e.g., \begin{lisp:documentation}). You may want to look at the appendix in Zou Hui's thesis for an example.


• Run the spell-checker repeatedly, both from within emacs and from a shell. You'll be amazed by the errors missed by a tool and caught by the other..

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