This guide helps the architecture student navigate through the entire process of starting, writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation. It also suggests what to do after the dissertation is completed. Subjects covered include the proposal, research methodologies, libraries and archives, the internet, and structuring, referencing, and illustrating the final submission. In all of these areas, the book explains what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and what dangers to look out for. Borden teaches architectural history and theory at The Bartlett, University College London; Rnedi teaches architecture at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Dissertation: an Architecture Student's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about writing a dissertation. It clearly navigates the student through the whole process of starting, writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation, as well as suggesting what to do after the dissertation has been completed.
Subjects covered include how to write a proposal, which research methodologies and techniques to adopt, which libraries and archives to utilise (including special architectural resources on the internet), as well as how to structure, reference and illustrate it.
Dissertation also takes architecture students into new terrains, suggesting alternative methods of undertaking dissertations, whether as video, prose writing, multimedia or other forms of expression.
* Learn how to organise and direct your studies with this clear and accessible guide
* Extracts from first class UK and US dissertations provide inspiration to get better marks
* Get advice from an experienced international author team
