I’m in the School of Ed. They provide us with a Word doc template to follow. It’s got all the fun pre-TOC pages (acknowledgments, abstract) and the 5 chapters with major sub-headings. We can and do alter it a bit. For example, I’m doing a Mixed Methods Case Study so I had to add subs in Ch 3 reflecting that and a background to org studied in Ch 1.

I’m in do whatever hoops necessary to finish mode, so the template is not currently bothering me. I’m actually thankful that it has removed a layer of complexity for me to decide what order things go in…or write something and find out I missed something.