: Re: Master's Thesis Structure: Separate-Page Chapters or Same-Page Sections? I start my master's thesis the coming fall, and I have started planning how to structure and set up the document (in LaTeX).

A disproportionate researchers fail to write the thesis. The number is so large that there is an acronym for it ABD - All But Dissertation.

In general projects (PhD can be thought of as project) fail when there is a large untested block of work to be done at the very end.

To succeed in a project that large block must be broken into small chunks that can be accomplished in between the project.

So if instead of writing your dissertation at the very end of your PhD, chapters of the PhD get written earlier and the last 3 to 6 months of the dissertation are spent in re-editing the chapters already written so that they become a coherent whole, you will get past the ABD problem.

Chapters written in open on right hand page will be quickly assembled into the final PhD document.

Take care that the numbering scheme for Tables and figures etc is robust (automated 'seq' fields in Word) and you do not need to renumber anything when it is assembled into the whole document.

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