Fudrow, John
(2024)
The Essay Is Dead. Long Live the Essay…That Accompanies Alternative ETD Submissions.
In: United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association Annual Conference 2024, 2024-09-025-2024-09-27, Online.
Abstract
At the University of Pittsburgh, and elsewhere, a traditional ETD was in an essay format that mimicked the format of print manuscripts from days of yore. But as degrees provided students with more opportunities to create non-essay materials for their capstone project, our ETD process didn’t adapt alongside these changes. Through the efforts of a collaborative team including administrators, faculty, and librarians; a discussion loosely termed “Beyond the PDF” aimed to envision how the university could support and preserve graduate works that push the borders of what many would call an ETD.
In this presentation, I would like to discuss the challenges we discovered in this process. The subsequent inquiries into what might be possible to be considered an ETD. How our decentralized approval process would need to be changed. The possible roadblocks for preservation in our institutional repository. And how to assist advisors and students in planning for the formatting during their research and drafting stages.
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