Dissertation Format Guidelines

It is much easier to produce a correctly formatted dissertation with LaTeX than with Word. Errors that I see in dissertations produced with Word, and that can't happen with LaTeX, include: Dissertation Format

• Chapter and section headings that aren't correctly formatted; see point 2 above.
• Bibliographic citations that aren't in the bibliography, or don't match what is in the bibliography.
• Entries in the table of contents that don't match what is in the body of the thesis, either because the chapter or section headings don't match or because the page number in the table of contents is incorrect.
• Page numbers in the table of contents that are not aligned.
• Footnotes that don't begin on the page where they are cited, or that spread across multiple pages even though they would fit on the page they started on.

Also, in Word you have to manually specify the entire format rules required by the Graduate College, whereas with LaTeX you just invoke the package uiurcthesis. Dissertation Format