Question about formatting in a thesis

[Orrex]

I'm assisting a friend who is, believe it or not, even more clueless than I am in this regard.

He's finalizing his thesis on bacterial cultures, and he has a number of flowchart-style graphics that he'd like to incorportate inline, but this presents a few small difficulties.

Overall the document is formatted in "portrait," but several of the charts pretty much have to be landscape. I could fit them into the flow of the text, but it would entail compressing the chart to the point of illegibility.

Would it be acceptable to include the diagram at the end of the paper, with a "See Figure 7.1" appearing in the corresponding text? That way we would avoid the problem of compression, though we'd lose the inline chart. Or would it be feasible for the text to appear on (for example) page six, with the chart (Figure 7.1) appearing as the next page?

And would it be better, then, to do the same for all charts (that is, better to compile them at the end), or only with those charts that don't easily fit into the body of the text?

I was an English major in college, but I never had to deal with included graphics this way, and in any case that was a long time ago, so who knows what's changed in the interim?

My friend and I both thank you for any advice you can offer.

[triguy46]

1. Don't take our advice...

the university will have a referenced style manual that MUST be followed, no exceptions. Don't take our advice. Ya' gotta work their system.

[Orrex]

2. Wait a minute--you're testing me

Don't take our advice ---> heed this advice.


You just blew my mind!


(but I suppose you're correct--I'll advise my friend accordingly)

[triguy46]

3. Yes means no. Start means stop. Watch the dancing lady...

its the old army game, 5 will get you ten...