How to Write a Thesis, (Paperback)

from EduardoGasparini

I read this book to help me in preparing my master's dissertation in Engineering, and it was very helpfull, specially because Eco writes in a pleasant way, using humor and keeping the seriousness the subject demands. Although it's a technical work, I experienced almost the same pleasure reading i...

from gendeg

Reading How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco, even an 'updated' version in this MIT Press edition, felt like a sweet exercise in futility. There's something folksy and quaint about being told how to put notes on index cards and properly organize them and being given tips for using the library and...

from berezovskyi

Great book, given that author wanted to tell completely inexperienced students how to perform their day-to-day work on their thesis. Its approach is still state-of-art, but particulars became replaced with the tools of the 21st century: typewriter with LaTeX, literature index folder with Zotero, ...

from berezovskyi

Great book, given that author wanted to tell completely inexperienced students how to perform their day-to-day work on their thesis. Its approach is still state-of-art, but particulars became replaced with the tools of the 21st century: typewriter with LaTeX, literature index folder with Zotero, ...