How to Write a Thesis (1977)
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How to Write a Thesis (1977)
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#2I have read the book and it's charming; as with much of what Eco writes, it's going to be of interest even to people who are not the target audience (students writing theses). Sometimes seemingly specialty books have the most interesting general lessons.
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#3Full text: https://b-ok.cc/book/2515965/9017f1
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#4I would have enjoyed reading the rest of that, but unfortunately a pop up appeared in the middle of the page as I scrolled down. I automatically close any page that does this. I can’t figure out why anyone thinks it is reasonable or appropriate to do that. Would you go up to someone in a library who is reading something and ask them if they want to subscribe to some crappy mailing list? Certainly not!
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#5I would have enjoyed reading the rest of that, but unfortunately a pop up appeared in the middle of the page as I scrolled down. I automatically close any page that does this. I can’t figure out why anyone thinks it is reasonable or appropriate to do that. Would you go up to someone in a library who is reading something and ask them if they want to subscribe to some crappy mailing list? Certainly not!
If you invited me to your library, where you have books you have paid for, I would not consider it rude if you interrupted me for a few seconds with this request.
Heck, if you DEMANDED I give you my email before coming in, I think I would accept the exchange.
Just click the X and be on with your day. This does not seem like a ridiculous request at all.
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#6A stirring defense of lucid and unpretentious writing, in a context when it is most needed.
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#7I would have enjoyed reading the rest of that, but unfortunately a pop up appeared in the middle of the page as I scrolled down. I automatically close any page that does this. I can’t figure out why anyone thinks it is reasonable or appropriate to do that. Would you go up to someone in a library who is reading something and ask them if they want to subscribe to some crappy mailing list? Certainly not!
If you invited me to your library, where you have books you have paid for, I would not consider it rude if you interrupted me for a few seconds with this request. Heck, if you DEMANDED I give you my email before coming in, I think I would accept the exchange. Just click the X and be on with your day. This does not seem like a ridiculous request at all.
I have clicked on my last X for the day. This is getting to be worse than the X10 camera pop up ads from years ago. I’m a person, not a conversion or an eyeball, and if someone offers me a document I expect to be able to read it without being harassed. It’s a sad state of affairs when even MIT, an apparently esteemed university is only publishing information for the sake of the grift, rather than to stimulate the public intellect.
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#8Some great advice! Is there something like this more specific to computer science theses?
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#9I would have enjoyed reading the rest of that, but unfortunately a pop up appeared in the middle of the page as I scrolled down. I automatically close any page that does this. I can’t figure out why anyone thinks it is reasonable or appropriate to do that. Would you go up to someone in a library who is reading something and ask them if they want to subscribe to some crappy mailing list? Certainly not!
If you invited me to your library, where you have books you have paid for, I would not consider it rude if you interrupted me for a few seconds with this request. Heck, if you DEMANDED I give you my email before coming in, I think I would accept the exchange. Just click the X and be on with your day. This does not seem like a ridiculous request at all.
Understanding and reasoning about a text is a concentration-heavy activity that libraries exist to facilitate, and context-switching costs are similar to programming. In a library, it is rude to interrupt someone for any reason less urgent than closing time.
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#10He was lucky not to have seen "theses" written in my home country Turkey. 90% of them are copy pastes. I saw many PhD theses quoting wikipedia. Ridiculous.