Information, forms, and handouts related to CCT Syntheses

Before you get started
• Hybrid option: Process Review + reduced version of other options -- If interested start compiling material all through your CCT studies
• Proposal form, with description of options
• Example of a Proposal
• Overview for students, with information for advisors and readers
• Potential readers and their interests
• Advice from former students
• Guidelines for anyone who doesn't finish in one semester
• A compilation of Research and Study Competencies
Once you get going
• Buddy check-in log form
• Guidelines for Syntheses
• Formatted template for a Synthesis (RTF file; replace examples with your own text)
• Citing references, a short guide
• Site that takes your bibliographic data and formats it for you in APA MLA or Turabian.
• Syllabi PT's Spring '11 (past syllabi: NG's Spring 05, CS's Spring 07)
  including Target dates
• Things to plan at the outset
  including submission of application to graduate form by deadline. (Also available from C&I advising office or graduate registrar, 617 287 6400)
• Potential editors -- Arrange someone early so you do not draw your advisor and readers into this role
• Contact info for synthesis students (email Peter Taylor for this)
• Thinking aid
• Phases of synthesis
• Phases of research and engagement (from 692/698 course)
• SCAMPER
• Other graphic organizers to develop and focus thinking (available on request from Nina Greenwald)
• Guides to conducting and writing literature reviews, 1, 2
• Words to organize literature review in interesting ways; see also this list.
• Developing the main body of the synthesis
• Online guide to writing
• Fair use of text, images, and other work of others
• Incompletes for the synthesis course require a signed completion contract
When you can see the end in sight
• Please do not ask to graduate if you have run out of time for thorough revisions.
• Writing an abstract
  
• Abstracts from past CCT syn/theses
• Required exit self-assessment
  word version and examples: 1, 2
• Binding instructions
  with checklist for finishing, including
  
  • Specify your synthesis code(s) for the online abstract
  • Decide whether to submit the full text of your synthesis to be linked to the online abstract
• Please do not ask to graduate without completing all these final steps. Past experience is that once students get the OK to graduate, life takes over and the steps don't get completed (or only get completed after the CCT faculty breathe down the graduates' necks).
• If applicable: Submit the change of graduation date form that you get mailed if you do not graduate at the date specified on your application to graduate. If you misplace this form, the registrar's office can send another copy to you at your current mailing address-make sure you keep this up to date on WISER.
At graduation: academic hood velvet is White (because the degree is an M.A.)