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During your graduation quarter, you must submit your thesis, dissertation, MBA report, or capstone report to Thesis Processing for review. Attending a thesis brief is the first step in the process. Due to the government shutdown, briefs for the December class will not be held. A recording of last quarter's brief is available here.

iThenticate (plagiarism) check

All public release drafts are checked for originality via iThenticate. Results are provided to students and their advisors, providing ample time to correct potential plagiarism concerns before the Final Draft is submitted. The Graduate Writing Center can help students improve citation and paraphrasing if such issues were identified. Potential plagiarism identified after the Thesis Release and Approval Form (TRAF) has been routed for departmental approvals and a Final Review request has been made will be forwarded to the Dean of Students Office. Questions? Get answers here.

Our Role at NPS

The Thesis Processing Office is the central collection point and publisher for NPS theses, dissertations, capstones and MBA professional reports (hereafter referred to as "theses"). Each student is required to work with a thesis processor in his or her final quarter. We ensure that the thesis 1) is correctly formatted in the NPS thesis template, 2) meets high copyediting standards, 3) is properly attributed, 4) has been approved by your advisory team, and 5) reflects the faculty-designated DOD distribution statement. We also work to prevent the publication of plagiarized material, personally identifiable information, unapproved human-subjects research, and nonpermissive copyrighted material. Theses are cataloged by the NPS library and DTIC.

During the thesis review, your thesis processor will focus on the "finishing touches" such as formatting, grammar, punctuation, and style. Examples of things we mark are inconsistent capitalization, citation use inconsistent with the declared citation style, images wider than the page margins, mismatching cross references, typos, inconsistent paragraph justification, spelling errors, and the like. Examples of the things we look for are provided here. The marked draft is then returned to the student, who must carry out the revisions globally in the thesis.

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