Literary Arts
Formatting and Presenting Your Thesis
Manuscript Guidelines
- Sharing your thesis with your advisor and with the department: On the day when your thesis is due, you should submit your thesis in digital form by electronic mail to your thesis advisor, with a copy going to Jennifer_Witt@brown.edu
- Type and Spacing: 10, 11 or 12 point typeface (for typewriters, pica and elite are both accepted). Prose manuscripts are usually double-spaced. Poetry and plays are as often single-spaced as double-spaced. If you have questions about the format, address them to your thesis advisor.
- Margins: the top, borrow, left and right margins should be at least 1 inch.
- Page numbers: page numbers may be placed closer to the edge of the page than the text itself. It is recommended that page numbers be placed in the same location throughout the manuscript.
- Length: most projects will be no less than 50 pages.
- For the archive: Brown's library holds a collection of honors theses. After you submit the thesis to your advisor, please submit your thesis to the library via https://repository.library.brown.edu/deposits/theses/