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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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978-0-262-52713-2 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Umberto, Eco. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
How to write a thesis |
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[electronic resource] / |
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Eco Umberto. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
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MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The definition and purpose of the thesis : What is a thesis and why is it required? ; For whom is this book written? ; The usefulness of a thesis after graduation ; Four obvious rules for choosing a thesis topic -- Choosing the topic : Monograph or survey? ; Historical or theoretical? ; Ancient or contemporary? ; How long does it take to write a thesis? ; Is it necessary to know foreign languages? ; "Scientific" or political? : What does it mean to be scientific? ; Writing about direct social experience ; Treating a "journalistic" topic with scientific accuracy ; How to avoid being exploited by your advisor -- Conducting research ; The availability of primary and secondary sources : What are the sources of a scientific work? ; Direct and indirect sources ; Bibliographical research : How to use the library ; Managing your sources with the bibliographic index card file ; Documentation guidelines ; An experiment in the library of Alessandria ; Must you read books?: If so, what should you read first? -- The work plan and the index card : The table of contents as a working hypothesis ; Index cards and notes : various types of index cards and their purpose ; Organizing the primary sources ; The importance of readings index cards ; Academic humility -- Writing the thesis : The audience ; How to write ; Quotations : When and how to quote: 10 rules ; Quotes, paraphrases, and plagiarism ; Footnotes : The purpose of footnotes ; The notes and bibliography system ; The author-date system ; Instructions, traps, and conventions ; Academic pride -- The final draft : Formatting the thesis : Margins and spaces ; Underlining and capitalization ; Sections ; Quotation marks and other signs ; Transliterations and diacritics ; Punctuation, foreign accents and abbreviations ; Some miscellaneous advice ; The final bibliography ; The appendices ; The table of contents -- Conclusions. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. |
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Academic Writing. |
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sears |
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Dissertations, Academic. |
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sears |
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Style Manuals. |
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sears |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Cantagrel, Laurent, |
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Editor. |
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Geoff Farina, |
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Editor. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyXX5rsoCD83yH6iPg7J1g_V0sQe_WcH/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyXX5rsoCD83yH6iPg7J1g_V0sQe_WcH/view?usp=sharing</a> |
