Page 72 - Exhibit No. 3 Copies of Instructional Materials Actually Used

The text consists of the standard format delineating the
various chapters that immediately follows preliminaries. The
main concern here is how institutions adopt divisions of the
text into titles and sub-titles, formatting of documentations
and citations, and the positioning of tables and figures. The
body of thesis/dissertation differs in elements/format (Slade,
2003). Thesis and dissertation follow a standard format
containing five chapters, however though some has four elements,
where Chapter 5 is part of Chapter 4 that bears the headings,
"Findings and interpretation". Each chapter begins on a new
page. There can be multilevel headings in each chapter of
the paper. Level sub-headings range from three to five levels.
The first level s centered, set in boldface, and capitalized.
The succeeding levels may be flushed to the left, sing sentence
style capitalization.

Thus multilevel headings are illustrated as follows:

The Problem and Its Background (Level 1)

Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Hypothesis
Significance of the study
Scope and Delimitation
Definition of Terms

With regard to pagination in the text, the Arabic
numerals are used for numbering pages, wherein first page of
the first chapter bear page number 1, however page numbers do
not appear on chapter pages.

Chapter 1

Introductory chapter that contains introduction of the
topic, and importance of the subject chosen for the study,
an explanation of need for research. Statement of the problem,
accompanied by one or more hypotheses together with the
significance of the study, scope and delimitation. In this
chapter the theoretical/conceptual framework of the study is
indicated and the terms that need to be defined. In some
institutions, theoretical framework and definition of

65
Nursing Research I