Summary: Angela is a university student in Madrid writing her thesis about violence in the media. During her research, she comes across a shocking 'snuff' film (a film where a murder is actually committed for the camera) that has apparently been shot on the campus. Investigating further, she uncovers clues that the university's administrators may be involved in an unexplained series of student...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TESTurabian, Kate L.
Summary: When Kate Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 TUR1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.06 TUR
Eco, Umberto.
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 ECOTurabian, Kate L.
Summary: A guide to the technologies, methods, and materials that can help writers of research papers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 MANSummary: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAJoy, David
Summary: Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOYMorton, Brian
Summary: A failed old writer is visited by a pretty young student who wants to make him the subject of her thesis. The woman's adulation--she tells him his books changed her life--goes to the writer's head and he falls in love. Observing this with a jaundiced eye is his daughter, herself a struggling writer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1998