The student's name, the title of the dissertation and the advisor's name and title appear at the top of the first page of the abstract, which is numbered Arabic page 1. The final two copies of the manuscript are each boxed separately, and are unbound. The final two copies and the abstract are accompanied by the forms completed as required by the University. No one volume has more than 300 sheets of paper. All tables, figures, text and page numbers print within the prescribed margins.
All type is dark, crisp and large enough for microfilming.
The dissertation is double spaced, printed on one side of the paper. All pages are paginated consecutively, and no page is missing. The first text page of volume one is Arabic number 1. Arabic page numbers are consecutive from volume to volume. Each page has a page number on it with the exceptions of the title, copyright, dedication, part-opening, and epigraph pages.