\u201e"You are not Proust. Don't make long sentences. If they come to you, write them down, but then shorten them... Write everything that comes to mind, but only on the first draft. After that you will realize that the emphasis has forced your hand and taken you away from the center of your subject. Then remove the parts in parentheses, the digressions, and put them in a note or appendix. <\/p>\n
The thesis is used to demonstrate a hypothesis that you developed at the beginning, not to show that you know everything\u2026 Don't be stubborn about starting with the first chapter. Maybe you are more prepared and documented for the fourth chapter. Start from there, with the ease of someone who has put the previous chapters in order. Take courage. Of course, you must have an anchor, and this is given in summary as a hypothesis that leads you from the beginning\u2026 <\/p>\n
Do not use ellipsis, exclamations, do not explain ironies. One can speak in absolutely referential language or in figurative language\u2026. A critical study, a scientific text should preferably be written in a referential language (with all the terms well defined and univocal), but it may also be useful to use a metaphor, an irony, a litotes\u2026 rhetorical figures are used or not used. If they are used, it is because it is assumed that our reader is able to receive them and because it is considered that the subject appears more incisive and convincing in this way. Then, we should not be ashamed to use them and we do not have to explain them. If it is considered that our reader is an idiot, rhetorical figures are not used, and to use them by explaining them would mean taking the reader for an idiot; who takes revenge by taking the author for an idiot\u2026. <\/p>\n
Always define a term when you first introduce it. If you don\u2019t know how to define it, avoid it. If it is one of the main terms of your thesis and you can\u2019t define it, drop it altogether\u2026. Don\u2019t explain where Rome is without first explaining where Timbuktu is\u2026 Don\u2019t attribute an idea to an author that he takes up as someone else\u2019s idea\u2026 Acknowledgements \u2013 It is a good habit that when someone, \u2026 having been helped with oral advice, book loans, or other help, inserts, at the end or beginning of the thesis, a note of thanks. It also serves to show that you have consulted people from all over.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Umberto Eco, How to write a bachelor's thesis. The humanities, , 2000, pp.159-166 and 194-197<\/p>\n
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