By Todd Patterson, on May 3rd, 2011 
During the process of writing the dissertation I’m supposed to be turning in chapters for my advisor (first reader) to look over, comment on, request revision, etc. Because of the nature of my dissertation, I decided to complete chapters 1-4 (out of eight chapters) and submit them all at once. I submitted those chapter in early March and on Friday, April 29th I sat down with my advisor to hear his recommendations. This was a very important meeting for me because early in the writing process I decided to take a bit of a risk and I wasn’t sure it would pay off.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on March 19th, 2011
I turned in chapters 1-4 of my dissertation last Thursday.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on October 7th, 2010 
We have another version of the template (version 1.2.2) that incorporates two very slight changes.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on September 25th, 2010
For some Old Testament research papers you may find it necessary to include transliterated text for ancient languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, etc. In that case, thanks to the Tyndale Unicode Keyboard for Hebrew and Greek, finding a way to input the extra characters you need is almost, but not quite, elementary. Read on to find out the best way I know to set up your system for easy entry of transliterated text for ANE languages. By the way, part of the solution to the problem involves using AutoCorrect in MS Word. So as a bonus, you’ll also learn a trick for easily entering words you use frequently.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on September 25th, 2010
You can find explanations of Unicode all over the web, this explanation is offered for non-technical people in the field of biblical studies. The purpose is to help you understand what you need on your computer to be able to enter text in German, French, Hebrew, Greek, or other languages with special characters. Specifically, it will help you understand why no ordinary font will do.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on May 11th, 2010
There is a new version of the MS Word template for graduate research papers at TEDS.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on May 2nd, 2010
Introducing the MS Word template for writing graduate research papers (dissertations, theses) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on April 28th, 2010
The table of contents is currently set to include chapter titles and two levels of headings (levels 1 and 2 subheadings). If you want, you can very easily change this to include the minimum allowed by the TIU Style Guide (level 1 subheading), or you can include all the subheadings you want. This tutorial will show you how.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on April 28th, 2010
Once you’ve finished up the dissertation one of the last things you’ll want to do is prepare the table of contents. If you’ve faithfully used the styles (Level 1, 2, … subheadings) throughout the document, then creating the table of contents is very easy. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of
getting all the headings in the table (one click!) and then polishing it up for printing.
Continue reading… By Todd Patterson, on April 26th, 2010
I’ve organized the quick style gallery so that the styles I thought would be most used are up toward the front. But, for example, maybe you don’t use Greek very much and you wish some other styles were in that first pane. Here’s how to rearrange the order of the styles as they appear in the quick style gallery.
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