See Editing for advice on how to improve a written text. All writers are likely to find Grammar, Spelling conventions and Punctuation useful.

Important points include the following:

• Ensure that grammar and punctuation are acceptable.
• Ensure that the text is complete.
• Ensure that all formal requirements are met (eg length, wording of the declaration, title page information). A typical thesis declaration is:  ‘This thesis contains no material that has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university. To the best of the author's knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text’.
• Check the formatting of equations, tables, figures, photographs and other nontext content to make sure nothing has ‘happened’ to them  (see Showing); do this before and after printing and binding
  • Are images, photographs or equations missing or pixelated?
  • If colour is important, is the colour reproduction adequate?
  • Do the figures and tables agree with their captions?
• Check that any URLs are current and correct, and do point to the indicated resources.
• Check that the work of the thesis assessors has been cited, and their names are spelled correctly.
• Proofread thoroughly – text, images, preliminary material, references, etc.
• Double-check the requirements for printing and binding (eg number of copies, type of binding to be used, stock size).
• Make sure the printer is supplied with correct, final and complete files of the right kind.
• Submit on time!