The a guide for architecture students Borden, Iain. creator author Rüedi, Katerina. author text bibliography enk 2014 Third Edition. monographic eng

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vi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. This is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about undertaking the dissertation. The book provides a plain guide through the whole process of starting, writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation with minimum stress and frustration. The third edition has been revised throughout to bring the text up-to-date for a new generation of students. Five new and complete dissertations demonstrate and exemplify all the advice and issues raised in the main text. These dissertations are on subjects from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia and offer insights into how to get it just right Introduction -- Why Write a Dissertation? -- The Guidebook -- Starting -- What is a Dissertation? Selecting a Dissertation Subject -- Assessing a Dissertation Subject -- Choosing and Working with a Supervisor -- Writing a Proposal -- Researching-- What is Research? -- Historical and Critical Methodology -- Research Techniques -- Libraries and Archives -- The Internet -- Writing -- Structuring a Dissertation -- Working Methods -- Illustrations -- Referencing – Bibliographies -- Plagiarism -- Submitting a Draft -- Word-Processing -- Alternative Dissertations -- Presenting -- General Presentation -- Illustrations -- Computer Software -- Assessment Criteria -- Oral Examinations -- Afterwards -- Further Research and Study -- Publications -- Troubleshooting -- Dissertation Examples -- Joseph Godlewski, Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in Lagos, Nigeria -- Ocean Howel, l The "Creative Class" and the Gentrifying City: Skateboarding in Philadelphia's Love Park -- Mairi Johnson, Once Upon a Sign: Relationships of Architecture and Narrative in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Joanna Rapp, A Geometrical Analysis of Multiple Viewpoint Perspective in the Work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: an Application of Geometric Restitution of Perspective -- Amy Thomas, 'Mart of the World': An Architectural and Geographical History of the London Stock Exchange -- Dissertation Authors Iain Borden and Katerina Ruedi Ray. Includes bibliographical references (p.76) Architecture Authorship Style manuals Dissertations, Academic Abstracts Dissertations, Academic Style manuals Architecture Research Methodology Handbooks, manuals, etc Architecture Study and teaching United States Handbooks, manuals NA2108 .B67 2014 LB2369 .B67 2014 808.06/672 9780415725361 0415725364 9780415725361 (ebook) https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1687435 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1687435 https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1687435 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1687435 pucpr 150728 20221128191408.0 eng