Please take the following one at a time and go through the entire dissertation.

___ Do page numbers and headings in the Table of Contents match exactly the body of the paper?

___ Do table titles in the List of Tables match exactly the body of the paper?

___ Do references in the body match exactly the references (e.g., spelling, year, etc.) in the Reference list? (This is a very common error.)

___ Are chapter titles all caps and centered?

___ Do chapter numbers in the Table of Contents match the body (i.e., both Arabic or both Roman numeral)?

___ Are the heading levels appropriate? 

Center heading – first letter of each word is capitalized; Side heading – left margin, italicized, and first letter of each word is capitalized; Paragraph heading – indent from left margin, italicized, first letter of first word capitalized, period at the end of the heading followed by text on the same line.

___ Do all center head sections have at least two or more side heads?

___ Are all factual statements documented?

___ Does your reference list contain recent references?

___ Does your reference list include an assortment of sources: books, journal articles, dissertations, ERIC?

___ Do all direct quotations include a page number in the citation?

___ Remember: Data are collected or were collected (not is or was).

___ Have you included an abstract and an autobiographical sketch?

___ Do your appendices have title pages?

___ Are your Table titles comprehensive and descriptive of the Table content?

___ Could your Tables and narratives in Chapter 4 stand alone?

___ Does your dissertation have internal consistency (e.g., numbers, terms, phrasing)?

___ Do all of the numbers in your tables make sense and add correctly?

___ Do the numbers in your tables line up vertically (e.g., decimal points)?

___ Are the numbers in your table consistent across tables?

___ Have you spelled out percent instead of using %?

___ Have you used italics for the t in t-test?

___ Do your pronouns match the antecedents in terms of singular and plural (e.g., the student and his/her teacher; the students and their teacher)?

___ Have you run spell check on your paper?

___ Have you removed the period after et in et al.?

___ Have you proofread your paper carefully by reading aloud and by having fresh eyes review it for you?

___ Have you revised, revised, revised, and revised your writing, then revised one more time?

___ If a citation mentions, for example, pages 261-262, do you note it as pp. 261-262?

___ Do all of your direct quotations have "beginning and ending" quotation marks?

___ Are the references (both in the parenthetical text citations and in the reference list) ordered alphabetically by the authors’ surnames?

___ Join the names in a multiple-author citation in running text by the word and. In parenthetical material, in tables and captions, and in the reference list, join the names by an ampersand (&). APA, p. 209

___ Are you using a, b, etc. notations in your citations/references if you have more than one publication by an author or authors in the same year?

___ Does your reference list have a hanging indent format? 

Thank you! Great job!