What are the FLL departmental requirements?
• Each department at Purdue is free to set up its own requirements. These requirements will be enforced by the respective departments. University requirements take precedence. • When you consult the manual, you should follow instructions pertaining to Purdue Format, for this is the format our department has chosen to follow. Some departments may have extensive requirements of their own. Our department requirements are contained in the FLL Thesis Format Approval Process. They mostly consist of stating that we are following Purdue Format and that you cannot use both italics and underlining in the same thesis. If you choose to use italics in your thesis, then wherever the Purdue Format requires underlining, you should substitute italics. • Why the italics vs. underlining policy? The reason for this is that published books rarely use underlining. Underlining cuts through the descenders in the typeface and is generally unattractive and makes the type harder to read. It was used by typists i
