By Todd Patterson, on December 19th, 2012 
I’m not going to go through all the reasons for backing up your dissertation. I’m sure you are aware of the risks and, in fact, I’m sure you are using some form of backup to safeguard against the loss of your dissertation. You might be backing up versions of your dissertation to a thumb drive or you might be emailing yourself a copy at the end of every day.
In this post I’d like to suggest that there are some easy and free ways to do a better job of backing up your dissertation. I won’t go through all the options. Instead I will suggest one system that I used, explain the basic features it has that I think every backup system should have and then point you to some other options in case you would find one of those more interesting.
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By Todd Patterson, on December 14th, 2012
That’s right, we’ve gone from “Crafty Compton” to “Sweet Swingle.”
We have a new document assistant at TEDS and a new document assistant means changes to our dissertation and research paper template. You can download the latest version in the same place as always (toddjana.com/u/tem01).
Important! Do Not Try to Update a Document in Progress
Please note, if you are in the middle of your dissertation or other research project, do not try to update your file by putting it in a new template. I’m not sure of any good way to simply update a document to the new template. As far as I know, you must make all the changes that I made when I updated the template. That’s the bad news. The good news is…
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By Todd Patterson, on April 6th, 2012
Along with my day job I also try to help out my fellow PhD students by providing them with a template that helps them automagically format their dissertations, proposals, and research papers at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
In this particular post I am responding to a recent question in which a user asked if it was possible to include a formal introduction that was not counted as a chapter in the table of contents. In the video above I show you just how to do that. It’s really pretty simple.
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By Todd Patterson, on October 7th, 2010
We have another version of the template (version 1.2.2) that incorporates two very slight changes.
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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.
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By Todd Patterson, on May 11th, 2010
There is a new version of the MS Word template for graduate research papers at TEDS.
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By Todd Patterson, on May 2nd, 2010
Introducing the MS Word template for writing graduate research papers (dissertations, theses) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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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.
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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.
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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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