How to Write a Thesis
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015-03-06
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781336183339
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Dissertations, academic
First sentence: How to Write a Thesis was first published in 1977 in Italy, where it has remained in print ever since.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Francesco Erspamer
pagenum: ix; title: Translators' Foreword
pagenum: xv; title: Introduction to the Original 1977 Edition
pagenum: xix; title: Introduction to the 1985 Edition
pagenum: xxii; label: 1
title: THE DEFINITION AND PURPOSE OF THE THESIS; label: 2.1
title: Monograph or Survey?
pagenum: 9; label: 2.2
title: Historical or Theoretical?
pagenum: 13; label: 2.3
title: Ancient or Contemporary?
pagenum: 16; label: 2.4
title: How Long Does it Take to Write a Thesis?
pagenum: 17; label: 2.5
title: Is It Necessary to Know Foreign Languages?
pagenum: 22; label: 2.6
title: "Scientific" or Political?
pagenum: 26; label: 2.6.1
title: What Does It Mean to Be Scientific?
pagenum: 27; label: 2.6.2
title: Writing about Direct Social Experience
pagenum: 32; label: 2.6.3 Treating a "Journalistic" Topic with Scientific Accuracy
title: 35; label: 2.7
title: How to Avoid Being Exploited by Your Advisor
pagenum: 42; label: 3
title: CONDUCTING RESEARCH; label: 3.1
title: The Availability of Primary and Secondary Sources
pagenum: 45; label: 3.1.1
title: What Are the Sources of a Scientific Work?
pagenum: 45; label: 3.1.2
title: Direct and Indirect Sources
pagenum: 50; label: 3.2
title: Bibliographical Research
pagenum: 54; label: 3.2.1
title: How to Use the Library
pagenum: 54; label: 3.2.2
title: Managing Your Sources with the Bibliograpahical Index Card File
pagenum: 58; label: 3.2.3
title: Documentation Guidelines
pagenum: 62; label: 3.2.4
title: An Experiment in the Library of Alessandria
pagenum: 79; label: 3.2.5
title: Must You Read Books? If So, What Should You Read First?
pagenum: 103; label: 4
title: THE WORK PLAN AND THE INDEX CARDS; label: 4.1
title: The Table of Contents as a Working Hypothesis
pagenum: 107; label: 4.2
title: Index Cards and Notes
pagenum: 115; label: 4.2.1
title: Various Types of Index Cards and Their Purpose
pagenum: 115; label: 4.2.2
title: Organizing the Primary Sources
pagenum: 123; label: 4.2.3
title: The Importance of Reading Index Cards
pagenum: 126; label: 4.2.4
title: Academic Humility
pagenum: 142; label: 5
title: WRITING THE THESIS; label: 5.1
title: The Audience
pagenum: 145; label: 5.2
title: How to Write
pagenum: 147; label: 5.3
title: Quotations
pagenum: 156; label: 5.3.1
title: When and How to Quote: 10 Rules
pagenum: 156; label: 5.3.2
title: Quotes, Paraphrases, and Plagiarism
pagenum: 164; label: 5.4
title: Footnotes
pagenum: 167; label: 5.4.1
title: The Purpose of Footnotes
pagenum: 167; label: 5.4.2
title: The Notes and Bibliography System
pagenum: 170; label: 5.4.3
title: The Author-Date System
pagenum: 174; label: 5.5
title: Instructions, Traps, and Conventions
pagenum: 179; label: 5.6
title: Academic Pride
pagenum: 183; label: 6
title: THE FINAL DRAFT; label: 6.1
title: Formatting the Thesis
pagenum: 186; label: 6.1.1
title: Margins and Spaces
pagenum: 186; label: 6.1.2
title: Underlining and Capitalizing
pagenum: 188; label: 6.1.3
title: Sections
pagenum: 190; label: 6.1.4
title: Quotation Marks and Other Signs
pagenum: 191; label: 6.1.5
title: Transliterations and Diacritics
pagenum: 195; label: 6.1.6
title: Punctuation, Foreign Accents, and Abbreviations
pagenum: 199; label: 6.1.7
title: Some Miscellaneous Advice
pagenum: 204; label: 6.2
title: The Final Bibliography
pagenum: 208; label: 6.3
title: The Appendices
pagenum: 212; label: 6.4
title: The Table of Contents
pagenum: 214; label: 7
title: CONCLUSIONS
pagenum: 221; title: Notes
pagenum: 225