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Before You Begin The ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) is similar to its paper predecessor, however, rather than printing a hard copy for submission to the Graduate School, the thesis or dissertation is printed to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file for electronic submission to the Graduate School. The submission is done electronically through the ETD Submission System. PDF files are suitable for machine archives and can be viewed on the World Wide Web (WWW). ETDs are less expensive to prepare, consume virtually no library shelf space, and will be available to anyone with access to the WWW. This website is designed to help you through the process of writing your thesis, converting to PDF format and then submitting it to the NC State Graduate School for review. Read the Thesis and Dissertation Guide AND the Policies Regarding Electronic Submission. Also read about copyright restrictions and intellectual property rights. A document from almost any type of word processor can be converted into the format for an Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD). Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX all can be easily used to write your ETD. Information regarding these word processors can be found within this tutorial. Also, many different types of computers and operating systems can be used: Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX. You can break your thesis into several files, or leave it as one. Almost any form of multimedia may be included in within your PDF. Don't limit yourself to an all-text document. Sound, video, databases, color charts and graphs and innumerable other file-types can be included in your ETD submission. In order to get an idea of what you are aiming for, take a look at some previously submitted ETDs:
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Browse the directory of ETDs at NCSU
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