How to Write a Thesis, Umberto Eco
How to Write a Thesis, Umberto Eco
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How to Write a Thesis

Author: Umberto Eco

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/01/2015

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis -- from choosing a topic to organizing a work schedule to writing the final draft. Now in its twenty-third edition in Italy and translated into seventeen languages, How to Write a Thesis has become a classic. Remarkably, this is its first, long overdue publication in English.

Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and he answers the important question "Must You Read Books?" He reminds students "You are not Proust" and "Write everything that comes into your head, but only in the first draft." Of course, there was no Internet in 1977, but Eco's index card research system offers important lessons about critical thinking and information curating for students of today who may be burdened by Big Data.

About Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, a philosopher, historian, literary critic and aesthetician. He is the author of the international bestselling novels The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before, as well as three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Mr. Eco lives in Milan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu on May 14, 2023

Umberto Eco a scris (cel puțin) două cărți (non-fiction) cărora le-aș da (le-am dat deja) cel puțin ****+. Una este Șase plimbări prin pădurea narativă, a doua este cea de față. De ce? Simplu, pentru că mi-au fost de un imens folos. Și eu am trecut prin „nevroza tezei”. Eram înscris la doctorat de 5......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on June 28, 2015

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......more

Goodreads review by Ana on October 28, 2024

Boring. Very boring. But helpful. Very helpful.🤭......more

Goodreads review by Fabia on January 05, 2020

Il testo è un po' datato, sicuramente alcuni suggerimenti oggi possono sembrare anacronistici (il libro è stato scritto nel 1977). Tuttavia ci sono invece molti consigli ancora validissimi, e la "voce" di Eco è riconoscibile e rassicurante. Piccola nota: la versione ebook che ho è così piena di refu......more

Goodreads review by La Lettrice Solitaria on November 28, 2018

[URL not allowed] Sto per dire una cosa che stupirà solo chi non conosce Eco. Questo libro fa morire dal ridere. Se state per affrontare la scrittura della tesi e siete in alto mare, rivolgetevi a lui. Davvero. Non solo il suo libro è utile dal punto di vista tecnico, ma vi str......more