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Honors thesis guidelines

The purpose of this guide is to provide guidelines preparing and submitting your honors thesis. This document is intended to be used in conjunction with the guidelines provided by your academic department.

Title page

Follow the citation style designated by your department, but in general, the title page should include the following information, centered both horizontally and vertically (items in bold should be included verbatim, and asterisks should be replaced with the student’s information):

  • Title of thesis

  • A thesis presented to the Department of ***

  • Western Illinois University

  • In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Major

  • By ***

  • Semester and year

A sample title page is below: