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Writing a thesis : a guide to long essays and dissertations / George Watson.

By: Watson, George.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Essex : Longman Group, 1994Edition: 1st ed.Description: 120p + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0582494656; 9780582494657.Subject(s): Dissertations -- Academic | Report writing | Thesis -- report writing | Research | Dissertations, Academic | Literary studies: general | Language learning: writing skills | Writing & editing guidesDDC classification: 808.02 WAT Summary: This text aims to stimulate literary and historical research on the one hand, while disciplining it on the other.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This practical text aims to stimulate literary and historical research on the one hand, while disciplining it on the other. Although written primarily with students of literature and history in mind, it deals with issues of equal concern to students of law, social sciences and the physical sciences. Any student faced with a thesis, dissertation or extended essay should find it helpful and entertaining in equal measure.

This text aims to stimulate literary and historical research on the one hand, while disciplining it on the other.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 The approach
  • 1 Why scholars write
  • 2 Am I stupid enough?
  • 3 The fear of eccentricity
  • 4 The lure of theory
  • 5 Choosing a theme
  • 6 Arranging it
  • 7 The writing bloc
  • 8 Discovery
  • 9 Interviews
  • 10 Bad arguments
  • Part 2 Techniques
  • 11 Questions of style
  • 12 The art of quoting
  • 13 Editong a text
  • 14 Manuscripts and their uses
  • 15 Making a bibliography
  • 16 Other theses, other books
  • 17 Acknoledgement
  • 18 Teaching and being taught
  • 19 Classes and seminars
  • 20 Learning a language
  • 21 Publishing Notes for further reading