Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Why Write a Dissertation?; The Guidebook; 2. Starting; What is a Dissertation?; Selecting a Dissertation Subject; Assessing a Dissertation Subject; Choosing and Working with a Supervisor; Writing a Proposal; 3. Researching; What is Research?; Historical and Critical Methodology; Research Techniques; Libraries and Archives; The Internet; 4. Writing; Structuring a Dissertation; Working Methods; Illustrations; Referencing; Bibliographies; Plagiarism; Submitting a Draft; Word-Processing.

Alternative Dissertations5. Presenting; General Presentation; Illustrations; Computer Software; Assessment Criteria; Oral Examinations; 6. Afterwards; Further Research and Study; Publications; Troubleshooting; 7. Dissertation Examples; Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in Lagos, Nigeria; The "Creative Class" and the Gentrifying City: Skateboarding in Philadelphia's Love Park; Once Upon a Sign: Relationships of Architecture and Narrative in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A Geometrical Analysis of Multiple Viewpoint Perspective in the Work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: an Application of Geometric Restitution of Perspective'Mart of the World': An Architectural and Geographical History of the London Stock Exchange; Dissertation Authors; Index.