Thesis/Research Paper Approval Form

This form must be submitted before proceeding with your thesis or research paper.

• In order to properly fill out this form, some preliminary research is necessary.

• You must be knowledgeable about the subject.

• You must be familiar with other works on this subject and you must include 5 references in the proper fields on this form.

• If it is a subject about which, after you have pursued a thorough search, you find that there are no works in existence or that there are none currently available, then you need to pursue and present a preliminary search listing at least 5 references which address some points which you will address in your thesis or paper.

• You must fill out and submit this Approval Form.

• You must answer all questions on this form.

• Failure to answer any question will result in rejection of your approval form.

• Changes can be made to your application at a later date but a change of subject requires prior permission from the head of the Thesis/Research Paper Committee.  Only two changes of subject can be made after your initial submission.

Please fill out the following information and click the submit button. "*" indicates mandatory fields.

 PERSONAL INFORMATION

DEGREE AND LEVEL INFORMATION

TENTATIVE THESIS/RESEARCH PAPER INFORMATION

SUBJECT
    Tentative title for your thesis or research paper.  Can be changed later with prior approval.

DESCRIPTION
    Name and brief description of your subject.  Limit yourself to 5 or 6 sentences.

PROCESS
    A brief description of how you will proceed with your Thesis or Research Paper.  Limit yourself to 5 or 6 sentences.

PRELIMINARY REFERENCE LIST
-    Give Title, Author  Please use a comma between the Title and Author.
-    List at least 5 of the references that you will use in your Thesis.  (Your thesis will require more than 5 but give 5 of them in this list.)
-    References can be existing works on your subject or works that address some point you will address in your thesis.
-   While writing your Thesis or Research Paper you can use general information works such as Bibles, dictionaries, Concordances, Lexicons, etc., but do NOT include those types of reference works in this preliminary list.