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How to Write a ThesisBy Umberto Eco

In a Nutshell

Umberto Eco guides readers through the research and writing of a thesis in this classic 1977 text, which has since become gospel for university students at the final stage of their degree.

Favorite Quote

If you play the game with competitive gusto, you will write a good thesis. But if you begin with the idea that it is a meaningless ritual in which you have no interest, you have lost before you have begun. If this is the case... have someone else write it for you. Or copy it.

Umberto Eco

Introduction

Believe it or not, Karl Marx's university thesis topic had nothing to do with economics or history.

Writing his thesis on Epicurus and Democritus gave Marx the historical depth and wide-sweeping understanding to produce his magnum opus of political economy. This is precisely how you should approach a thesis.

Umberto Eco was a leading Italian academic, social critic, philosopher, and novelist. His bestsellers include The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.

This handbook was written to help undergraduates refine their research and writing habits as they reach the final stage of their degree.

With wit and wisdom, Eco guides readers through the steps of thesis-writing, from the proper way to quote secondary authors, to useful methods for organising notes.

How to Write a Thesis was published in 1977 and has been translated into 17 languages. Even now, it is indispensable across the scholarly world for anyone undertaking a longform piece of academic writing.

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